Pumpkin Recipes!

Pumpkins are certainly one of the symbols of the autumn season.  This year we were blessed to receive many “slightly” rotten pie pumpkins from a local corn maze.  Our house has recently smelled of baking pumpkins, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin soup, pumpkin butter, pumpkin cookies, and pumpkin oatmeal.  Delicious!
We were asked to post a few of our recipes, so here are two delicious ones we have enjoyed this season.

Pumpkin Bisque

1 tablespoon butter
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup diced bacon or turkey lunchmeat
1/4 cup dry white wine
2 cups chicken broth
1 1/2 cups pumpkin puree
1 teaspoon minced fresh thyme
peel of 1 lemon, finely grated
1/3 cup half and half or plain yogurt
~Melt butter in a medium pan.  Add onion and bacon and saute until bacon is lightly browned.  Add white wine and cook until reduced, 4 to 5 minutes.  Add chicken broth and pumpkin puree.  Stir in thyme and grated lemon.  Add half and half and simmer 5 minutes.  Do not allow to boil.  My mom made this recipe (tripled) in the crockpot which worked great.  Very delicious with chunks of cheese in it:)

Pumpkin, Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 cups flour
2 1/3 cups oats
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
3 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1 cup yogurt or applesauce (if flaxseed is available, I use about 1/2 cup of it and cut the yogurt or applesauce down to 3/4 cup)
3/4 cup brown sugar
3/4 cup sugar (I usually use honey)
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 1/2 cup pumpkin puree
1 egg
1 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups chocolate chips
~Combine all the dry ingredients.  Cream yogurt or applesauce and all sugars.  Add the pumpkin, egg, and vanilla and mix well.  Add dry ingredients and mix until just combined.  Stir in the chocolate chips.  Chill dough for 30 minutes.  Form dough into golf ball size scoops and bake on an ungreased pan at 350 degrees for 14-16 minutes.

Enjoy!

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