Pumpkin Carving and Domestic Living

Ok, so it all started when one of my Co-teachers (Luke's) asked, "Do you carve pumpkins on Halloween?" I said, "Well... yeah. Yeah we do." She then went on to say that someone from our office (whom I still don't know) wanted to buy one for me so that we could have our 'Halloween tradition'. The next day a really nice looking pumpkin arrived on my desk.

So, on Halloween we decided to crack it open and see what we could do. Our plans to go to Everland (Korea's version of Disneyland) had fallen through at the last minute because of swine flu and all of our friends had already made other plans. So, we decided to make a night out of it.

As we were carving we decided to try to be awesome and make, not only pumpkin seeds, but Pumpkin Spice bread. Both of which are un-heard of in Korea.

Lindsey started with the top and cut a perfect hole. Then she decided that it was too hard and said that I should do the rest. (typical... ^-^)

So after we scooped out the nastiness from the I began on the face. We went for the toothed look this year. A classic.

Our pumpkin had this little spot on it that turned out to be a perfect little upper lip mole for out pumpkin. His name was 'Jack-O' (original I know).

So the eyes, nose and mouth turned into the key ingredient for our dessert...

Pumpkin Spice Bread

These are our creations that night.

In Lindsey's hand you see a small portion of our Baked and lightly salted Pumpkin Seeds.

Directly below that we have the PS Bread.

And to the right we have 'Jack-O.' (ok... we didn't give it the name Jack-O, I just wanted to give it a little bit of personality... because it DID have personality. It spent the next week and a half being poked at by hundreds of Korean kids during Lindsey's classes.)

Here are some of the seeds... ready for salt and some oven time.

This is a little better shot, but we aren't in it so... sorry. Linds says everyone hates shots like this.

OH!!!! My favorite part! We had some leftover pumpkin and so I made some pumpkin pancakes to start our next morning right. They tasted pretty good if I can say so myself.

Ok... this has nothing to do with Halloween or Pumpkins, but it was awesome.

This is one thing that Korea did great. Ice-cream on waffles decorated with fruit, nuts and chocolate syrup. This whole package was about 8 USD. That is three waffles, three scoops of ice-cream, and two cups of coffee. A perfect way to wait for the bus. :)