This is the perfect time of the year to be cooking with pumpkins - most of the unsold ones left over from Halloween should be available cheap in the shops.

• Pumpkin Mash
  Very simple to make - 2 medium potatoes, peeled and diced. A quarter of a small pumpkin, peel, remove the seeds and dice the flesh. Boil the potato and pumpkin in salted water until soft, then mash together.
• Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
  Scoop the seeds out of the pumpkin, wash and dry them. Toss them in oil with salt, paprika and a little chilli. Spread onto a tray and bake in the oven (gas mark 6 for around half an hour). Leave to cool then eat.
• Roasted Pumpkin
  Diced pumpkin can be added to roast vegetables to add variety of texture and flavour.
• Soup
  Add pumpkin to a vegetable soup.