When my brother arrived at my house on Wednesday, we started preparations by making the vegetable broth that would go into the pumpkins' stew. This (which we later thickened slightly so it was more stew-like) was my favorite thing out of the whole meal. The roasted pumpkin was cool, presentation-wise, but this broth was just ridiculously good.
Thursday we put the stuffing together, and I don't have pictures of that. But there are a lot of pictures of the final stage of preparation from today. We hollowed out the pumpkins (which were actually just pumpkin-like squashes), first...
These vegetables were all roasted, too (on the outside of the pumpkins). I forgot to put the beans in, but I intended to include great northern beans as a substitute for the seitan the recipe called for. Then we put the vegetables and the sauce inside the partially-roasted pumpkins and roasted the whole thing a little longer.
The pumpkins came out beautiful and delicious. It was a little hard to access the deliciousness at first, though.
The last thing I made was this salad: roasted asparagus with lemon juice, blue cheese, and tomatoes. Everyone always likes it. I liked this wine, too - I am generally a fan of vinho verde.
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