Spaghetti and Pumpkin Night

Last month, we announced to the local kids that we will have a pumpkin carving and spaghetti night at our house, last Sunday o' the month.



Tom and Ms. HHCFR (House Helper and Companion For Roberta) drove inland by dirt track to a local farm distribution area and bought 15 big, ... = 105 kilos of pumpkins (about 230 lbs). The farm community uses a completely different currency, but they were pleased to receive my currency anyway. We had about 15 kids and several parents and pumpkin goo everywhere.

It was great fun and a big success. None of these kids had ever done this before and scooping
out the guts was big messy fun.







We scraped out the meat and everyone was sent home with a big "Jack-o-lantern" and lots of pumpkin meat for pies, cookies, couscous or whatever.

We were left only with about 10 Kilos (20+ lbs) of seeds.





Ms HHCFR took them to the small processor in town for roasting and salting .

There was enough spaghetti for seconds! and as you might guess high school boys eat seconds..


















Ms. HHCFR really enjoyed the kids! By the way in our house we say, "never kid around with a Berber woman with a knife". She laughs so much when I kid with her! -Tom