This is a logical time of year to be celebrating the pumpkin, for an annual holiday in which pumpkins traditionally play a large role is just a few days away - Halloween.
During Halloween, pumpkins are traditionally carved into spooky Jack O'Lantern faces, and then lit from within, but there are more uses for pumpkins than simply Halloween decorations. Rather than buying a real pumpkin for Halloween, using it, then throwing it away, it can make more sense to buy a reusable plastic one, and save the pumpkin itself for cooking, although pumpkins used for cooking are usually different varieties to those used for carving.
Pumpkins are versatile, in that they can be used in both sweet and savoury recipes, and most parts of them are edible, including the shell, leaves, flowers and seeds, not just the flesh itself. Pumpkins themselves are a type of winter squash, and another popular holiday that uses them, this time for eating, is Thanksgiving, when pumpkin pie is a popular dessert.
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