kapocha

Jan.23, 2005

This is カボチャの煮物 I made today.

There are several kinds of pumpkins you can buy here in Canada. The one we are most familiar with is a minority kind here. I got this Asian pumpkin at a Chinese market. The price tug showed its name as "Kapocha". Sounds cute, isn't it?

You can buy another pumpkin more easily at any supermarkets. I have bought it once. It was totally different, though. I think this pumpkin is for Jack 'o Lantern, the pumpkin lamp for Halloween. It's a lot more soft that you can dig and cut to make a hollow and eyes and mouth. I had been wondering how Western people work with the hard pumpkin on Halloween, but now I know how! Heh, heh.
Its texture is also different. It feels more like watermelon or something. I cooked it Japanese style but ....it tasted just awful... too watery, too much fiber and seemed impossible to eat up...

トロントで買えるカボチャには、種類がありますょ。
日本で使うフツーのカボチャは、チャイニーズマーケットに行かないと手に入りません。
そこらへんのスーパーだと、どでかくてオレンジ色の、すかすかしたカボチャが沢山売ってます。多分、ハロウィンのジャック・オ・ランタンに使うカボチャだと思われます。
…全然、煮物には適してないんですょー。。一回試しに作ってみて、死にました。。多分、すいかで煮物を作ったらあんな感じになるかなぁ？