Four for the season (if anyone's interested) - pumpkin recipes we love

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This is when we love to make Pumpkin pancakes, Pumpkin scones, Pumpkin soup, and Iced Pumpkin Squares (kinda working from breakfast, through lunch/dinner, to dessert).

The scones is an adaptation I made from some scones we had at Starbuck (but found too sweet and heavy) - the pancakes are my variation of a sweet potato pancake I discovered - ditto with the soup. I found the Squares on the web - a healthier version of the one we used to use.

I will post any/all if anyone is interested. We use real pumpkin for them - just take a medium sized pumpkin, cut in half, scoop out the seeds and gunk - put cut side down on a baking sheet in a 325 deg. oven and bake for 45 min to 1 hour, until easily pierced. Scoop out the pulp into a bowl and spin it in a food processor with the blade until smooth (for all but the soup) - no need to process it to use for the soup. It freezes well also - we freeze the pulp in half cup or full cup portions in zip top freezer bags.

Let me know and I will post the recipes.