I never did carve the Halloween pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern this year, so today I turned it into pumpkin butter. Cleaning out the seeds and peeling the pumpkin are the hardest parts. Then, I cooked it down with water, brown sugar, and a little salt, cinnamon, and vanilla.

As soon as it cooled, I ate two cups of the stuff. So much for concern about how to can the excess! The seeds were popular with the doves or the squirrels...somebody took off with them!