Wash and cut the pumpkin in half, crosswise.

Remove seeds and strings.

Place it in a pan, shell side up, and bake it in a 325 F oven for 1 hour or more, depending on size, until it is tender.

Cooling...

Pie dough (two 9- inches pies)

2 cups all purpose flour

1 tsp baking powder

a dash of salt

2/3 cup butter

6 Tbsp cold water

Put it in the refrigerator.

Scrape the pulp from the shell and put it through a food mill

(or a ricer or strainer.)

Ground the cloves

shredded the nutmeg

Filling ingredients:

3 eggs, separated

2 cups pumpkin

1 cup evaporated milk

1 cup sugar

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

1/4 tsp ground cloves

1/4 tsp salt

Beat egg whites just until soft peaks form.

Beat egg yolks

add pumpkin

add evaporated milk

add sugar

add the other 5 ingredients, beat until well blended

With rubber spatula, gently fold beaten egg whites into pumpkin mixture.

To avoid spilling pumpkin mixture, place pie plate on oven rack and pour filling into crust.

The left one.

Now I am going to make another pie (the right one in the picture) with different recipe.

Filling ingredients:

2 cups pumpkin

1-1/2 cups evaporated milk

1/4 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup white sugar

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp cinnamon

1/2 tsp ginger

1/4 tsp nutmeg

1/8 tsp cloves

2 slightly beaten eggs

Mix until well blended

Pour the mixture into the pie shell.

Bake at 375 F for 45 minutes until filling is set and knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean.

This one baked for 50 minutes.

This one baked for 65 minutes.

They both taste good.

Roasted Pumpkin Seeds

Preheat the oven to 400°F. Coat the bottom of a roasting pan with olive oil.

Place the seeds (I had 1-1/2 cups) in a medium saucepan. Add 2 cups of water and 1 teaspoon of salt to the pan for every half cup of pumpkin seeds. Add more salt if you would like your seeds to be saltier. Bring the salted water and pumpkin seeds to a boil. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Remove from heat, drain and dry them.

Spread the seeds over the roasting pan in a single layer, and toss them a bit to coat them with the oil on the pan. Bake on the top rack until the seeds begin to brown, about 15 minutes.