It's Pumpkin Time!

Halloween is in some ways my favourite holiday.  I like the theatrical dressing up mostly but also the fact it doesn't go on for ages and require a lot of commitment like a UK Christmas can with the overeating and drinking and the conundrum of who you want to see and when/how versus who you 'have' to see and when/how.

Essentially it's an 'opt-in or opt-out' situation and I like that about it.

After 8 years of living abroad and not being able to get a pumpkin mostly so making do with a butternut squash or skipping it all together, I have really liked being able to get a pumpkin extremely easily, carving it and turning its innards into soup.

So, this is what I ended up with:

First was the soup bit: