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Ode to a Swedish Pumpkin

When fall rolls around, and you realize that you would really really really like to have pumpkin pie on the dessert table at your Thanksgiving feast, a girl does what she has to do….which is what we’ve been doing for all the years that we have lived abroad and outside of the USA.   No possibility to run to the grocery store here in Malmö (even to an ex-pat store that might sell some products from the USA or the UK) and purchase canned pumpkin. Let’s buy a pumpkin! There she be....the Swedish version of the pumpkin that will grace our Thanksgiving dessert table ~ our little friend who comes by often noticed right away the next time he came by and the pumpkin was no longer there in front of the house! And then make pumpkin purée! And then make pumpkin bread to share with all your friends from the Språkcafé (language café) who have never eaten pumpkin bread before!   Most of them have only known pumpkin in soup or as a roasted vegetable. And then make pumpkin pie for th...

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