Random cooking question - NBR!

ReeceFamily

I was thinking I'd try to use one of our big pumpkins for cooking (we didn't carve one of them)...but are big pumpkins really suitable for cooking?  Or are they just for decoration?  This is a classic orange pumpkin, the size of an oversized basketball.  I was going to make a curry or something.  I figure one of you foodies would know!

Kyleedawn08

I wouldn't. It would be really bitter. Like pp said- you would use a sugar pumpkin for cooking

ReeceFamily

Got it - thanks, all!  I have a butternut squash I may use, I'll have to toss the big pumpkin in the yard waste bin.  And @kittynap, thanks for the recipe!