Too much pumpkin has been in my life over the past couple days. My mom and I finally cracked open the sugar pumpkin that has been sitting in our fridge since Thanksgiving and decided to make various recipes with it. First was our obligatory pumpkin pie family recipe passed down from my German great-grandmother. Really delicious.
But what to do with the remaining two cups of mashed, cooked pumpkin? Ok, yesterday morning brought us a feast of pumpkin pancakes which drove us over the edge already. Ok ok, no more pumpkin. PLEASE. And we haven’t finished the pie either. Hmm.
One more cup remaining this morning, so we took a healthier route and made pumpkin protein smoothies. Hers was more pumpkin pie-ish since it was nothing but coconut milk, protein powder, spices, and pumpkin, but mine had some more additions which made it not so straight up pumpkin pie-like at all:
200ml coconut milk
30g Syntha-6 cinnamon bun protein powder (this stuff is the bomb)
80g cooked pumpkin
1 medium frozen banana
allspice, cinnamon
~1 tsp. Grand Cru Matcha
This protein powder really allows the matcha to shine, especially in comparison to the Syntha-6 banana which is quite strongly flavoured. This was one of the most uniquely flavoured protein smoothies I’ve ever had. Like pumpkin banana cream pie dusted with matcha. I would totally make this again but with butternut squash. Love the freshness of the matcha paired with the spices.
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This protein shake sounds pretty awesome :)
This reminds me of one of the Anne of Green Gables books (#4 I think) when Anne went over to one person’s place and raved about pumpkin preserves she was served. She was a teacher making her rounds to all the different houses, and every time after that she kept on having pumpkin preserves because everyone wanted to please her. By the time she was almost done making her rounds, she was sick and tired of them, and just when she thought she was going to a house that wouldn’t have them, there they were! ;)
I suggest freezing either some of the pumpkin puree or the pumpkin pancakes ready made. You’ll enjoy them in a couple of weeks when pumpkins are a distant memory.
Never read the books, Kristal, but that feeling sounds pretty accurate! I had no idea Anne is a teacher, btw.
It was indeed an awesome protein shake so no regrets here. We finished up the rest of it making these smoothies, but freezing would have been an excellent idea. I was also going to make cookies instead of pancakes, and those would have frozen well too, I’m sure.
This protein shake sounds pretty awesome :)
This reminds me of one of the Anne of Green Gables books (#4 I think) when Anne went over to one person’s place and raved about pumpkin preserves she was served. She was a teacher making her rounds to all the different houses, and every time after that she kept on having pumpkin preserves because everyone wanted to please her. By the time she was almost done making her rounds, she was sick and tired of them, and just when she thought she was going to a house that wouldn’t have them, there they were! ;)
I suggest freezing either some of the pumpkin puree or the pumpkin pancakes ready made. You’ll enjoy them in a couple of weeks when pumpkins are a distant memory.
Never read the books, Kristal, but that feeling sounds pretty accurate! I had no idea Anne is a teacher, btw.
It was indeed an awesome protein shake so no regrets here. We finished up the rest of it making these smoothies, but freezing would have been an excellent idea. I was also going to make cookies instead of pancakes, and those would have frozen well too, I’m sure.