Pumpkin pie is definitely sweet. Not hypersweet, but there's sugar in the pumpkin filling mixture. There's also pumpkin pie spice, which you can buy commercially as a blend or make yourself from cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice or mace. Some people also use ginger. Pie pumpkins are a little different than regular pumpkins: they're smaller, have more flesh, and are sweeter.
I'm trying to think if there's anything similar in German food, but I'm not coming up with anything. It's similar to a sweet potato pie, which you probably don't make over there, either. (Some sweet potato pies can be overly sweet and really gross. I've made this one the last two Thanksgivings to much praise. Even my anti-sweet-potato mom liked it.)
Other things I like doing with winter squashes: savory casseroles, pasta sauce, stuffing them with raisins & nuts & rice and baking them, roasting the seeds with garlic and salt.
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Date: 2012-09-15 06:26 pm (UTC)From:I'm trying to think if there's anything similar in German food, but I'm not coming up with anything. It's similar to a sweet potato pie, which you probably don't make over there, either. (Some sweet potato pies can be overly sweet and really gross. I've made this one the last two Thanksgivings to much praise. Even my anti-sweet-potato mom liked it.)
Other things I like doing with winter squashes: savory casseroles, pasta sauce, stuffing them with raisins & nuts & rice and baking them, roasting the seeds with garlic and salt.