Autumn pumpkin dogs’n pumpkin pie fries

Zippylip

Repost from old forum; I tried searching this one because it was was right around the time of the split, but I think it came afterwards as I couldn't find it.   This was 2011's pumpkin cook

Begin by grilling a 10lb pumpkin till soft, scoop out, let cool, then rice it into a container. This will provide the base material for both cooks.

For the dogs, I substituted a pile of the pumpkin for corn in corn-dog batter along with a little pumpkin spice ale in place of the milk for the liquid. Dip, deep fry as usual & serve on your favorite stick.

For the fries, add to the pumpkin a few eggs, some brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, then spread the slop out onto a cookie sheet & into the freezer. A few hours later, flip it onto a cardboard box & chop into large steak fries then back into the freezer until ready to cook. To cook, dredge in corn starch (a test batch revealed flour wouldn’t cut it, had a catastrophic blowout of the interior which is very wet, made a mess, it wasn’t pretty), then deep fry in peanut oil until brown. Upon removal, a nice bit of kosher salt works nice. Next time I will press the pumpkin post cooking to get some of that moisture out as it made for too wet a fry.

Both were served with vanilla bourbon sauce & pumpkin ale.

The cool autumn air has arrived like clockwork in Pennsylvania to blow the stank out of summer. I for one am very happy about that:

The pumpkin:


















The dogs:





My new setup










The fries:



















Lunch:

Village Idiot

Looks great !  Thanks for not linking back, but reposting instead.  That shows class !

travisstrick

My lord, sir. Where have you been all my life?

Mickey

Hold on boys, it's going to be a ride. Zippy can cook

cazzy

Jeeez...those dogs look incredible!

cazzy

Mickey said:

Hold on boys, it's going to be a ride. Zippy can cook

I know I spent 45 min looking at his old threads last night! The guy is in a league of his own.

Zippylip

Village Idiot said:

Looks great !  Thanks for not linking back, but reposting instead.  That shows class !

ha, I don't know about class, but I do know that when I open a post I want to see what I'm looking for right there as opposed to being redirected to another site...  Any future posts will be posted on both sites, I do like to catelog my own cooks & the forum has always been the place to do it. 

and thanks

Zick

Honestly, beyond great!

Skiddymarker

There is a Great Pumpkin and his name is Zippylip! 

Thanks for the posts, the grandkids will love the pumpkin "Pogos". 

TUTTLE871

What in The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown? That looks incredible.

Zippylip

hapster said:

First off let me say hello @Zippylip...

Not sure where you are in PA; but I am down in Chester County. Love this time of year...

Your post and this cook are pure inspiration; and I am not a big fan of pumpkins... But I do have friends who are

Looking forward to learning more about the rest of your cooks...

H

Hapster, I'm about 2 miles outside of the borough of West Chester near Rustin High - I agree, this time of year rules, my favorite.  Regarding your lack of fanship to pumpkin, try one out - just give it a grill with olive oil salt & pepper, scoop it out & eat it with a fork. I'd bet you change your mind