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Pumpkin It Up!
Savor the taste of fall year-round with 75 pumpkin-infused recipes. There’s more to pumpkin than lattes and pies, so Pumpkin It Up! is here to help you discover sweet and savory ways to pumpkin up every meal. With both traditional favorites and unexpected twists, these recipes will please even the pickiest of pumpkin eaters. Stock your spice rack with Homemade Pumpkin Pie Spice, keep breakfast classic with Pumpkin Pancakes, liven up dinner with Pumpkin Tortilla Soup, and tempt yourself with Pumpkin Tiramisu for dessert. Whatever your pumpkin craving is, you’re covered!
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128 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2016
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About the author
Eliza Cross
21 books248 followersEliza Cross is the author of 17 books including her latest, 101 Things To Do With a Smoker, with easy, approachable recipes for adding wood-fired flavor to everything from cinnamon rolls to beef stew.
She is the founder of BENSA Bacon Lovers Society and shares bacon recipes, food festivals and artisan bacon makers. She blogs at Happy Simple Living with easy recipes and ideas for simplifying life.
Eliza lives with her family near Denver.
She is the founder of BENSA Bacon Lovers Society and shares bacon recipes, food festivals and artisan bacon makers. She blogs at Happy Simple Living with easy recipes and ideas for simplifying life.
Eliza lives with her family near Denver.
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November 19, 2019
One of the best things about Fall is seeing pumpkins on porches and jack-o-lanterns on Halloween….
This cookbook contains very yummy recipes using pumpkin as the main ingredient. From pastries and cookies to side dishes, soups, dinners, and desserts, this book has easy, tasty recipes!
This cookbook contains very yummy recipes using pumpkin as the main ingredient. From pastries and cookies to side dishes, soups, dinners, and desserts, this book has easy, tasty recipes!
November 18, 2016
Wow!!! A friend bought me this cookbook as a gift, and I absolutely love it!!! Where do I begin? The pumpkin cream chocolate cups are like Reese's cups with pumpkin instead of peanut butter. I wish I wasn't allergic to coffee, because the pumpkin latte looks divine. Pumpkin cheesecake crescents -- I've died and went to heaven. Pumpkin streusel coffee cake is to die for. Seriously. Your family will think you slaved for hours, yet it's so simple. Pumpkin cheesecake french toast, anyone? YUM. Pumpkin crepes with brown-sugar filling...are you kidding? I'm all over that!!! And it doesn't end there...soups, appetizers, desserts, breads, soups, bisque, side dishes, and entrees...this cookbook has it all. I haven't made the pumpkin cream puffs, but they're next on my list. As is the creamy pumpkin tiramisu. I've always want to learn how to make tiramisu, and now's my chance. Can't wait!!! I'm making it for Thanksgiving.
The recipes in Pumpkin It Up! aren't only for the holiday season. Although they're great for that, too. As the author points out, with pumpkin puree we can enjoy these recipes all year long, and that's exactly what I intend to do. Here's a tip: don't let your family see how easy these recipes are to make, and they'll think you're a cooking/baking goddess. You can thank me later. ;-) And don't forget to thank the author by leaving a review!
You may think from this review that I have a lot of time to cook/bake. I don't. My occupation leaves very little time, in fact. And yet, I can whip up something scrumptious in a matter of minutes. This cookbook is one of my all-time favorites. Highly recommend!!!!
The recipes in Pumpkin It Up! aren't only for the holiday season. Although they're great for that, too. As the author points out, with pumpkin puree we can enjoy these recipes all year long, and that's exactly what I intend to do. Here's a tip: don't let your family see how easy these recipes are to make, and they'll think you're a cooking/baking goddess. You can thank me later. ;-) And don't forget to thank the author by leaving a review!
You may think from this review that I have a lot of time to cook/bake. I don't. My occupation leaves very little time, in fact. And yet, I can whip up something scrumptious in a matter of minutes. This cookbook is one of my all-time favorites. Highly recommend!!!!
December 10, 2016
WOW - creative, easy and YUMMY my son LOVED the pumpkin french toast
September 13, 2021
This book earns a star for having recipes for every meal (not just dessert,) but then loses one for not having pictures with every recipe or much in the way of a description of the finished product. Still, the recipes sound good, and I will likely be trying several this fall.
January 11, 2022
Growing up, I always thought of pumpkin as one of my favorite foods. Pumpkin pie was my favorite dessert throughout the fall, and I always enjoyed pumpkin shakes, pumpkin bread, pumpkin butter, all that sort of autumnal, mostly sweet dishes endemic to Northern US cultures. Now, I realize that is probably mostly due to being one of those autumn, Halloween loving types and the fact that, it turns out, I love winter squash in general.
As a squash variety, pumpkin may not be the most ideal, even the sweeter “pie” cultivars, being in general starchier, earthier types than say, butternut or kuri or kombucha squashes. They work fine in a lot of recipes calling for something squashy but not too delicate, I feel.
As far as pumpkin themed cookbooks go, though, there seems to be only so much you can do with them, really, and this one, Pumpkin It Up is pretty typical. It doesn’t provide much of a background on culinary usages of pumpkin, though the author does give a nice rundown of preparing pumpkin for her various recipes, whether baking it or steaming it for puree rather than relying on cans, which is useful I think. The recipes included tend towards sweeter, even the more savory ones, but the bulk is made up of dessert or dessert-like bread items. I have found much more interesting uses for pumpkin in some other, non-pumpkin focused world cuisine books, and for squash in general, I’d recommend the Northern Plates entry Smitten with Squash.
I discuss some other single ingredient-focused cookbooks on the January 11, 2022 entry of Harris' Tome Corner.
As a squash variety, pumpkin may not be the most ideal, even the sweeter “pie” cultivars, being in general starchier, earthier types than say, butternut or kuri or kombucha squashes. They work fine in a lot of recipes calling for something squashy but not too delicate, I feel.
As far as pumpkin themed cookbooks go, though, there seems to be only so much you can do with them, really, and this one, Pumpkin It Up is pretty typical. It doesn’t provide much of a background on culinary usages of pumpkin, though the author does give a nice rundown of preparing pumpkin for her various recipes, whether baking it or steaming it for puree rather than relying on cans, which is useful I think. The recipes included tend towards sweeter, even the more savory ones, but the bulk is made up of dessert or dessert-like bread items. I have found much more interesting uses for pumpkin in some other, non-pumpkin focused world cuisine books, and for squash in general, I’d recommend the Northern Plates entry Smitten with Squash.
I discuss some other single ingredient-focused cookbooks on the January 11, 2022 entry of Harris' Tome Corner.
January 26, 2023
This is a small book that really focuses, as the title suggests, on pumpkin. Not gourds but pumpkin. Drinks, appetizers, bakes, mains etc. I found a lot to like and am amazed at the versatility of a single vegetable.
October 31, 2018
A lot of these recipes are going in my recipe box. Yum!
November 25, 2020
I did find three recipes in this title, including a quick way to make pumpkin butter and the fact that that a 15 ounce can of pumpkin equals 1 and 7/8 cups.
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