I searched relentlessly for a sugar pumpkin to no avail, until yesterday, when I finally found one. My own pumpkin patch produced. I harvested my lonely pumpkin yesterday.

Now what? My recipe database has 96 recipes that require pumpkin. My bookshelf has no fewer than four pumpkin and squash cookbooks. That’s a load of pressure for one poor little pumpkin.

In the meantime, it sits on my kitchen counter, waiting for its ultimate purpose.