09/03/2026
Happy Fall-ing into Fun! 🍂🍁
If you know me, you know I love to celebrate though did you know my brain likes to utilize too? I do! In this day & age, being resourceful is so useful.
When studying Native American ways, that beautiful concept of honoring the earth by using every single part of a harvest seemed to be a core part of their thought process, too. So, when I saw a boutique coffee shop serving a pumpkin spice latte directly IN a real pumpkin, my creative side wanted to try it, & my resourcefulness took over!
Excited to look for one at a healthy grocery store, I bought a perfect little sugar/pie pumpkin (you can get organic ones), spooned it out, & made a fresh, cozy latte right inside the shell. (Or you could do pumpkin tea 🫖✨🤔😯) Little interesting to drink from yet fun!
If you are wondering how I am going to pump-kin up the efficiency on this, let's just say I have a gourd-geous plan & if you do decide to too please research!🍂
For Snack attacks ;): Cleaned, salted, and crisped up the fresh pumpkin seeds.
The Lunch: The pumpkin covered & chilling in the fridge, rinsed and ready to act as a festive bowl for salad or a pasta salad! 🥗🧡
🧅Autumn aesthetic dinner party? I am 100% making French Onion Soup & serving it directly inside individual pumpkin shells! Ooo I just had an idea of spooning in the salad after everybody is done with their soup. Plus New England to Cali twist a pre-party separate guacamole pumpkin dish!
The Finale: I’m tossing the whole shell into the oven to possibly bake it down into a rich, sweet puree OR try out my French onion soup idea with Pumpkin bread croutons!
Once it's baked, here are a couple of culinary possibilities…
🥣 Savory Dinner Delight – Wedges or Whip the warm pumpkin flesh with butter, garlic powder, salt, & a pinch of nutmeg?
🥣 Breakfast Hash/Mash? – Never had a pumpkin one & just thought of this so need to search possibilities to make that happen
Have you ever tried using a real pumpkin as your dishware?
Leaf your favorite fall pumpkin ideas below as here we go Fall-ing into the flavors of the Season!!