Pumpkin (Patreon)

It's october! I'm a huge fan of all things autumn, though in Finland "all things autumn" looks a bit different, pumpkins aren't a native crop (it's funny, in finnish zucchini is called "summer pumpkin", and I wondered for the longest time why that is, before I learned that the round gourd pumpkins are referred to as "winter pumpkin". Or alternatively, "winter zucchini" alternative to "summer zucchini", they're the same word).

 I ended up cutting the pumpkin open, carving out the seeded mush inside, and frying the mush up on a pan with some minced chicken and onion. I had (and still have) no idea how to separate the seed, though, so while the outcome was tasty, I ended up spending my whole meal spitting out seed like -

Actually there is no dignified way to finish that sentence.