@RussSharek if you have a functional oven, cut it in half, scoop out the seeds (optional but recommended: make baked pumpkin seeds with the seeds) and then bake one or both halves cut side down on a cookie sheet for an hourish. until you pressing on the skin on the outside depresses easily

gently scoop out all your baked pumpkin flesh from the peel and mash it up. now you have the stuff to make many delicious treats which call for canned pumpkin/pumpkin puree like pumpkin quickbread or scones or nan gua bing! pumpkin puree also freezes excellently, so you don’t have to use up a whole giant pumpkins worth of pumpkin all at once