Dehydrating a pumpkin

and making pumpkin powder

This was a first for me, I knew I needed to cook it first then strain and press all the juice out of it.

Got it all cut up

Darn but that's hard work.

Would have been easier to smash it onto the sidewalk

And yes, I saved seeds to be roasted

Thought I'd be smart and use my steamer but only one chunk at a time would fit into it and took 25 minutes to get tender

That was taking way too long and I was getting very sick of looking at all that orange mass sitting all over my counter.

It was time to get er done so I brought out the big boss, my go to when I'm in desperate straits.

My electric pressure cooker

 half the pumpkin fit into the pressure and 11 minutes later it was tender, 22 minutes later the whole pumpkin was done and I was exhausted but still had to pick the goop off the pumpkin seeds..

 As soon as the seeds were clean and I had the pumpkin meat scraped out of their skins I set it to cool and gave up for the day.

Two days later I spread it in my dehydrator, it took all that day and over night to dry but it's done.

Today, the 3rd day I ground it into pumpkin powder using my Magic Bullet

These are half pint jars.. hard to believe that huge pumpkin didn't even make a pint of powder.

Would I do this again?

Probably

Because I'm just stupid enough to do so