Fresh pumpkin may be cooked in a variety of ways but also….

Keeps very well. May be canned, frozen. Peel, dice into chunks, cook with onions, carrots, celery, red curry paste, stock. Puree into Thai-inspired soup. Simmer diced pumpkin in coconut milk with onions, ginger, garlic, cilantro until cooked through. Serve curry over rice. Fold one pound of fresh pumpkin puree into muffin batter with raisins, walnuts, cinnamon, nutmeg, then bake.