Especially if you like to bake your own pumpkins — now in season and available at many stores and farm stands — it’s the perfect time for some pumpkin recipes.

Be sure to get pie or baking pumpkins if you start from scratch. Not carving pumpkins or jack o’lanterns.

If you go for the canned pumpkin, make sure it’s real pumpkin puree, not pumpkin pie filling, which is generally made from butternut squash.