Roasted Pumpkin (cooking with fresh pumpkin not canned) Recipe

Canned pumpkin isn't available in Poland, so cooking with pumpkin is a very seasonal. I want to say everyone is roasting pumpkins this time of year; it seems that way among the American cooks anyway. We returned home with a pumpkin from the market Friday evening, to see on facebook that my friend Rhonda was "baking pumpkin and roasting seeds" just a few buildings away.

I have always been a fan of Barbara Kingsolver's fiction; a couple of years ago, I read her non-fiction work, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. The book recounts her family's year long experiment to only eat what was raised locally. I remember her lamenting in the book that every autumn when the local cooking columnist published pumpkin recipes,…