This summer I have been lazy about gardening (again) but had a large squash vine volunteer plant growing in my garden area. I figured out it was a Seminole pumpkin (I have grown them in the past, it must have come from the compost). I grabbed a couple of ripe pumpkins off of it a few weeks ago and there are more growing.
Today I was thinking about the pumpkin and how I was going to cook it and I started thinking about stuffed acorn squash. I have some chanterelles that grow in my backyard (as well as the neighborhood green spaces) so I checked the area to see if any were growing with all our recent rain. Sure enough, there they were.
It ended up being easier to cook each separately. I make a creamy sauce out of the chanterelles (with onion) and put it over orzo pasta. I cooked the squash separately in the microwave with a little butter. We mixed the two together and it was pretty good. I would like to come up with a stuffed Seminole pumpkin recipe for smaller pumpkins in the future.
