1. Stir it into oatmeal
Skip the dubious latte—stirring a few spoonfuls of purée into a warm bowl of oatmeal is a better way to get a pumpkin fix in the morning.
2. Make a creamy dessert
Your choices: panna cotta, creme brûlée, flan, or rice pudding.
3. Stir it into applesauce
Suddenly you'll have...pumpkin applesauce!
4. Make compound butter
Mix a little into softened butter along with a bit of brown sugar and some warm spices (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon). Spread on warm biscuits, or, whatever, just lick it off a spoon.
Photo by Chelsea Kyle, Food Styling by Anna Stockwell
5. Make soup
Blend it into just about any creamy vegetable soup for an added layer of fall.
6. Or add it to chili
Toss in the whole can for a sweet, earthy undertone.
7. Use as a ravioli filling
It's not fall until you've eaten pumpkin pasta.
8. Spread it on your bagel
A slathering of pumpkin purée withmaple syrup will, no lie, make you forget about cream cheese.
9. Add it to doughnut batter
Every Sunday morning in fall should start with pumpkin doughnuts.
Grandma's Pumpkin PieJonathon Kambouris
10. Get baking
Pie, muffins, quick bread, cheesecake, whoopie pies, scones, cake, blondies, dinner rolls. WHAT NOW.
11. Make milkshakes
A big scoop of puree + vanilla ice cream + milk + a pinch of cinnamon = the best milkshake you've never had (until now).
12. Or ice cream
Feeling a little more adventurous? Pull out the ice cream machine and get churning.
13. Turn it into a pasta sauce
Mix it with equal parts ricotta. Season with salt and pepper. Toss with pasta.
14. Mash it into your mashed potatoes
A pumpkin mash is a sweeter mash.
15. Make pancakes or waffles
Fact: orange-hued and fall-spiced pancakes and waffles are better than regular ones.
