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So many pumpkin ideas I'd never considered tbh. All of these sound delicious.
the donuts are my favorite; especially if you create a pumpkin custard filled donut.
credit goes to my mom; she had a family of 7 people to feed on a wage of 25 cents per hour (back in late 70's/early 80's). i'm convinced that i've consumed multiple times my weight in beans, rice, potatoes, tortillas, pumpkin, yams & other canned vegetables. (why tf is there so much canned pumpkin & yams?!)
i think working 2 jobs and always visiting community food pantries & the good will of neighbors/family made her extremely clever at cooking; i never cease to be amazed at the lengths that mexican women go through to give their entitled af american childred (aka me) a decent childhood.
if she were fully literate and still alive she could fill an encyclopedia on culinary know-how; who tf has had the wherewithal and the culinary experience to use snow as a means to effectively feed a family?
I'll have to try making something like the donut sometime, personally while I almost never eat pumpkin I like it and should see about getting cans.
Your mom sounds like she was an absolutely lovely person. As for snow- don't think I'd trust it in the city, but I have good memories as a kid of enjoying it, also of us setting jello outside during the winter. Such things are very cozy :)
the donut is crazy easy if you do it like a fritter: just mash together the pumpkin, sweetener, some kind of flour/meal; some kind of oil/fat and maybe some eggs or diary if you like then fry it and five minutes after you've started, you've created a core memory for your children or a pleasant afternoon for yourself.
i think it tastes best with nixtamal (mexican cornmeal they use for tamales and tortillas) and, if you do, you can steam it & use zero calorie sweetener for a significantly healthier alternative to frying & sugar. (make them SMALL if you want try baking it instead)