Jack-o-lantern

Last night, my sons Tatsuki and Satoshi carved NEO’s pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern. In America, carving jack-o-lanterns is a very popular tradition around Halloween time. Many families go to a local pumpkin patch and hand pick the pumpkins they want to carve. Usually, each child will carve their own pumpkin.

I wanted to have two pumpkins to carve, but I couldn’t find a second pumpkin to buy. I drove around to several shops and Ayumi called a few stores, but there were no pumpkins around. A lot of pumpkins in Okayama are sold quite early, the end of September or the beginning of October. If we carve the pumpkin too soon, it will go rotten before Halloween comes.

There are a lot of seeds inside of a pumpkin. We collected our seeds and roasted them the oven with butter and salt for about 45 minutes at 150 degrees. They were delicious!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!