The pumpkin predicament

Cia had been talking about making pumpkin soup pretty much since she arrived in Honduras. We were all very supportive of this plan, but not sure where to find pumpkin. After seeing what appeared to be pumpkins several times at Jumbo, Nelly and I decided to surprise Cia by bringing a pumpkin home. We had no idea the amount of surprise this pumpkin would bring. Early Sunday morning Cia was already at work in the kitchen. Problem number one: none of our knives could cut through the pumpkin. That seemed easy enough to solve--I just suggested we stick it in the oven for a while. Nelly and I went to the market; thus, we missed the gruesome sight shown above. In Cia's words, this experience was "Horrifying." and "The order was quite putrid." Somehow Cia after calling to Kadian for much needed help and courage, manged to clean the smelly muck out of the pumpkin.

It looks deceivingly docile and pleasant in this picture. Don't be fooled.

Despite all the adventure, we all enjoyed delicious and sweet pumpkin soup for supper Sunday night :). I think we're going to stick to the canned pumpkin from now on though.