Wacky Pumpkin

From a carefully selected two pumpkin seeds, one seed created life to a pumpkin plant.

Fearing jardin invasion, the plant was kept in a big pot that spurted endless compost-hibernated tomatoes.

Despite this, one pumpkin made it to life, on a branch climbing up the garage wall.

It grew into a beautiful, perfectly round pumpkin (was this a Martha Stewart's genetically modified seed I wonder?)

But, alas, the pumpkin was too heavy; the branch fell to the ground.

 
Left to its natural instincts, it held on its life branch and grew rounder, then started to change colour, maturing into a very handsome pumpkin.

And now it is Halloween, what to do with Pumpkin?

Some of you will recall last week's Wacky Thursday's story about the original Jack-ó-Lantern. This created a dilemma at somerville kitchen. 

Should this year's Jack-ó-Lanterns be all original, made of turnips or should a pumpkin be added to the mix.

So the pumkin was on display. New versus old world debates took place in front of the fire place. "It looks so beautiful on the window", "But it will get dry, and wither without completing the destiny it was born for".

We are in North America after all and the pumpkin is THE plant of choice for those lanterns. So, without further ado, let me introduce somerville kitchen's organically grown, traditionally carved, Pumpkin-ó-Lantern.