Halloween pumpkin soup served in a roasted pumpkin.

Halloween pumpkin soup served in a roasted pumpkin.

Halloween is only days away,
already im doing pumpkin things.

I made some pumpkin soup and wasn't sure how to serve is, decided to see if you could roast a carved pumpkin and serve it in that.

Ingredients
700 chopped pumpkin (the sort good for eating not for carving)
2 medium size potatoes chopped
1 onion chopped
3 carrots chopped
butter
2 ½ pints of veg stock
½ pink of milk
nutmeg
(brown sugar optional)

Soften the onions in the button on a medium heat in a large heavy bottomed pan.
Add all the vegetables plus the stock and bring to the boil, then simmer for 20 mins
or until all the veg are soft.
Blitz the soup until smooth, pour back into the pan with the milk and lots of nutmeg.
Reheat before tasting and seasoning to your liking, if your pumpkin is a bit insipid it might need sugar or salt and pepper of you prefer.

To serve hollow out a pumpkin, then cut your face design just though the skin.
Cook in a oven on a low heat for 2 hours turn the oven up and cook until the pumpkin is soft inside
cover with foil if you think its beginning to scorch.
Once its cooked, pour your hot soup into the pumpkin and garnish with some roasted pumpkin seeds.