DeeDee Stovel

As someone who loves pumpkin soups, baking with pumpkin substitutes, pumpkin seeds and everything pumpkin the fall can bring, I jumped at the chance to read, review and then test things from the book itself. I love that this book starts with the author getting personal about how she felt about pumpkins, and how the people in her life reacted on both sides of the fence when she said she was writing it. This whole personal beginning made it feel more like I was sitting down with a friend to swap secret recipes, rather than diving off a ciff into dangerous uncertain cooking waters.

I loved the early helpful charts on how what equalled what, how you could cook things, and then a breakdown of what all the cooking words meant (which was well done, especially if someone entirely new jumped into this book). The extra pages with data and details, special and rare throughout the book were delightful, especially about Halloween, Thanksgiving, Pumpkin Festivals, and the Pumpkin capitol of the world, and on.

The recipes after were absolutely divine and I can't wait to try a good number of them: Roasted Ginger Pumpkin-Pear Soup, Creamy Kale Pumpkin Soup, Grated Candied Pumpkin, Storey Publishing, Blue Cheese & Pumpkin Galette, Cheddar Pumpkin Tarts, Punkin' Joes, Pumpkin Lasagna, Pumpkin Pear Galette Pie, Lemon-Pumpkin Strudel, Peachy-Pumpkin Crisp.

The Index pages don't exist yet, but I'm certain they will be just as helpful and detail laid out as the rest of this book. This is definitely a five-out-five release and I can't wait to pick up my own solid copy!


Thank you to Netgalley and Storey Publishing, LLC for a for review ARC.… (mer)

I'll start by saying that I'm obsessed with pumpkins. Ever since I was a child, I couldn't wait to visit the markets and patches to pick our ginormous, orange beauties for the year. Well, now we grow our own and always have an abundance of pumpkin and winter squash to store and cook over the winter, so when I saw this book, I had to read it.

This has to be one of the most thorough pumpkin cookbooks I've found that covers the different types of pumpkins, storing, preparing, cooking them and so much more. There are facts about pumpkins included as well as tons of recipes. The only subject I would've liked more on is canning it, but that's a fairly simple process we're already familiar with.

So far, we love the roasted corn pumpkin chowder, traditional pie, breads, and mashed potatoes with pumpkin. We ended up buying the book and if you love pumpkin, this cookbook is a staple in the kitchen. I can't wait to try every single recipe and the recipes we've cooked so far have all been keepers.

4****… (mer)