I made this spicy pumpkin soup recipe last year with a post-Halloween carving pumpkin. It was excellent. Most cooking sites will point out that cooking pumpkins (sugar pumpkins) are different from carving pumpkins, but I made this with the kind of giant pumpkin sold to make into a jack-o-lantern (one pumpkin made several batches), and it tasted great. The hardest part is breaking down the pumpkin. It's a bit of work, but worth it. Yum.
Jack O Lantern image by Mansour de Toth, Creative Commons license.
