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title: Cook a Five-Course Pumpkin Dinner This Weekend From Just Two Pumpkins
description: "A full pumpkin menu for six: spiced seeds and dip, ginger soup, warm salad, whole stuffed pumpkin and pumpkin pie, plus a Saturday cooking plan."
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-10-27T16:48:43.147Z
updated: 2026-10-27T16:50:15.199Z
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This Saturday is 31st October, and most of the pumpkins in the shops this week are bought to be [carved, lit and put out with the rubbish](https://richdadmagazine.com/article/picasso-of-pumpkin-carvers). You can do far more with yours. Two good eating pumpkins give you enough flesh, seeds and shell for a five-course dinner for six, and every course on this menu puts pumpkin at the centre of the plate.

The menu opens with spiced seeds and a roasted pumpkin dip, moves through a ginger soup finished with brown butter and a warm salad of honey-roasted wedges, and arrives at a whole pumpkin baked with cheese, cream and mushrooms. A spiced pumpkin pie with maple cream closes the evening. Most of the cooking happens in the morning, so you spend the evening at the table with your guests.

## Buy eating pumpkins, not carving pumpkins

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