/ck/ - Food & Cooking

noodle casserole, sweet or savory

Mixed pastas with pumpkin.

carbonara

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I have a pretty good vegan spaghetti sauce if you want.

go to gamestop and let it spill out of your pockets as you drop to floor in front of the cute cashier at the counter

>>4089361
like canned pumpkin? how do you do that?

>>4089371

Milhouse will never be a meme.

>>4089371
there are no cute people working at gamestop

>>4089372
I have never used a canned pumpkin.
Basically, you get a quarter of a European-style pumpkin (pic related)1 and remove the hard outer part.
Cut up the flesh into cubes and set it aside.
Place a bunch of olive oil in a pot and add a handful of whole garlic cloves (at least three, up to five) and dry chilies, if desired and set to high heat.
When fragrant, add the pumpkin and sauté a minute or so.
Top off with 2-3 litres/quarts of water and bring to the boil.
When boiling, lower the heat just enough to maintain a low simmer.
Simmer until the water is almost entirely evaporated out and the pumpkin has broken down into a sauce-like consistency.2
Stir in a handful of fresh parsley leaves, salt to taste and toss with cooked mixed pastas.
Serve.
> 1 if you live in America, you can get this type of pumpkin are most Chinese/SEA groceries. After moving to the US from Italy, I have found that Chinese/SEA, Korean and Mexican groceries carry a lot of produce that we use in Italy that I can't get in ItaloAmerican groceries. It is sold in quarters in Chinese/SEA places. Make sure it's the orange Mexican type and not the green/brown Japanese type.
> 2 You may have to break up some of the pumpkin yourself with the side of a spoon while it's cooking down.

This is a pretty old dish of my region of Italy, made with old-world pumpkins before the Spaniards brought the superior new-world ones back with them.

>>4089420
Lemme show you two other pictures. This one is old-world pumpkin (cucuzza in our ItaloGreek dialect).

>>4089427
>>4089420
And this is simply another time I made mixed pastas with pumpkin. My region of Italy is known for using mixed pastas.

Try pesto, garlic butter, cheese or alfredo?

carbonara.. super easy. put what ever the hell you want in it.