Last week my father-in-law took 50+ pumpkins out of the garden in one day. So I put out the call via facebook for any and all pumpkin recipes known. Thus far I've only tried a couple, but they've turned out pretty well. Of course all the recipes from the states call for canned pumpkin, but it's really easy to make a fresh pumpkin puree instead. I just halve the pumpkin and bake it at a medium temperature until it can be pierced easily with a fork. Then I scoop it out and blend it into a puree. Depending on the type of pumpkin, it's good to let it drain, but for the pumpkins we have here I haven't needed to.
I got a pumpkin bread recipe off of epicurious. This recipe makes a lot of pumpkin bread. So be ready to halve the recipe, freeze a bunch, or treat co-workers. It came out tasty, but I had trouble grinding the roasted pumpkin seeds sufficiently. A lot of people apparently just left them out, but I found the bread to be really moist even with all the extra flour.
Otherwise, I used only 1 c. of sugar in the raw, as opposed to 1 c. white sugar and 1 c. brown sugar. But at home we don't even like our deserts to be very sweet, so this is definitely to taste. I also used whole milk as opposed to butter milk, since that's what was in the fridge.
I also got a recipe for Pumpkin chocolate chip cookies from an old college friend that was amazing. Our resident non-desert-eater even requested more. There are no chocolate chips for sale in Brazil, so I just got a bar of semi-bitter chocolate and chopped it up. Once again I halved the sugar and used raw sugar as opposed to white, but otherwise stuck close to the recipe.
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