It's not a car,....or a cell phone but the famous vegetable of October, the pumpkin, known as pumpa in Swedish.
All over Sweden you can find stands with pumpkins and other members of the squash family, ready to be carved just like in the US.
We made a visit to the pumpkin patch ourselves. My children usually want to get many many pumkins, with the idea of making jack-o-lanterns which we can line up and down the stairs and driveway. Due to the very labor intensive activity of carving a pumpkin we just get one pumpkin for each kid. I must confess though, that I get a few extra pie pumpkins to can pumpkin pie filling for the November season.
So here's how you carve a pumpkin.
With a very sharp knife, cut off the top of the pumpkin. Put it aside for later because this will be your lid.
Here's the close up on that.
Next scoop out all of the gunk in the middle of the pumpkin. Put everything is a bowl because there are great pumpkin seeds mixed in with this gunk which are great for roasting. (More on that another day.)
Of course pumpkin carving always works a lot better when the family cat is checking up on things and helping out.
After the gunk is out of the pumpkin, draw a face or whatever image you want on the front of your pumpkin. With the same sharp knife cut it out. Here's a look at our afternoon's work.
Don't forget the giveaway over at A Place Like This. It ends today at 6 pm EST. Enjoy. Back on Thursday.
Today's Words:
Pumpa: Pumpkin
Pumpor: Pumpkins
Skär: To carve with a knife.
Vi skära pumporna: We carve the pumpkins.
