Vanilla Rum Roasted Pumpkin Ice Cream & Homemade Pumpkin Puree

We missed it again this year. It’s been three years in a row since we’ve missed our annual pumpkin-patch picking. Our moments of reminiscing back to those days of apple-picking at Apple Lane Farm in Solvang were shared on our pumpkin swirl brownie post. Yes, we missed our apple orchard visits for this year, but the pumpkin patches still might be lingering on for a few more weeks. But rather than feel sorry for ourselves for not making it out to the orchards and patches, we’ve been filling the kitchen with plenty of pumpkin recipes to make up for our missed opportunities.

Pumpkin is one of those forgotten or under-appreciated squashes. Sure, the larger commercial variety are usually sitting on someones porch till Thanksgiving or reduced down to awesome looking jack-o-lanterns for Halloween. But when Fall rolls around, we can’t let those pumpkins go to waste because the seeds are way too delicious when roasted. Add some spices and roasted pumpkin seeds are such the perfect Fall snack.

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