taylor beth: pumpkin mush

Don't get too excited, this isn't yet another fall pumpkin recipe (we have pumpkin year-round in our house).

Last weekend we went down to Provo to carve pumpkins with our friends Austin and Janessa. Matt carved a "U" and I followed suit with attempting to carve an "SC." Let me warn you, carving an "SC" is harder than it sounds. When I google imaged for some ideas, this is what I came up with:

Right.

A little bit daunting, no? Janessa and Austin were smarter and realized that we had pizza to eat, so they did the traditional carving of their awesome pumpkins and got to eating. Once I gave up in order to eat pizza, Matt swooped in to make the SC a little more legible.

apparently red-eye fix doesn't apply to white eyes

Austin masterfully separated out the seeds and Matt baked some later that night.

Well, when we got home we couldn't figure out what to do with the pumpkins. We live in an apartment complex and don't have an outdoor patio. I was too afraid one of the dogs in our complex would eat it if we set them outside anyway. So, they stayed inside.

On Wednesday I came home around 7:45 after working late and running a few errands. I was exhausted and starving. As I was heating up leftovers, Matt, who has been home for a couple hours by then, says, "So, what do you want to do about the pumpkins?"

"What about the pumpkins?"

As I came around the kitchen bar to look at them, I nearly screamed. There was a thick layer of yellow-orange liquid all over the floor, seeping out of our now deteriorating pumpkins.

"What do you mean what do I want to do about the pumpkins?? Why didn't you clean it up?"

"Well, I wanted you to see it!"

Lesson learned: don't leave carved pumpkins inside, or they will turn to mush. Orange, oozing, mush.

We'll stick to the canned pureed stuff.

Halloween isn't my favorite.

Ghosts of Halloweens Past (okay, really just 2009, because that was my favorite):