The pumpkin is picked, you've chosen your Jack-o’-lantern design and the power tools used to open and clean the gourd have been cleaned. Now, you’re left with a heaping, gooey pile of guts and seeds.

Confession: For years, I threw away the seeds after carving pumpkins. Roasting them just didn’t seem worth the trouble—why mess with all that stringy, slimy pumpkin flesh? Then a few years ago, after ...

At this time of year, we seem to accumulate pumpkins in our household like voter pamphlets —we’re not exactly sure where they’re all coming from, or if we’ll ever have time to get through them all and ...