I sympathize with being away from home at a holiday season with specific culinary expectations. I posted (http://www.a-cubed.info/blog/?p=235) a couple of years ago on my first Christmas after immigrating to Japan (I'd spent Christmas here before, but that was the first time after I moved here full time, rather than coming from the UK in December). The Japanese have a squash that I don't see anywhere else, which they call kabocha (which I posted (http://a-cubed.livejournal.com/50947.html) about using for soup, recently). Its flesh is rather like pumpkin and it's similarly sweet, though not identical taste. It might serve as a reasonable substitute for pumpkin pie. Not that I think I've ever had pumpkin pie myself, it being a US thing and specifically a Thanksgiving thing (I have known USIans be so ignorant of their own history and of the meaning of their holiday that they've asked UKians if they celebrate Thanksgiving).
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Date: 2012-11-11 02:33 pm (UTC)The Japanese have a squash that I don't see anywhere else, which they call kabocha (which I posted (http://a-cubed.livejournal.com/50947.html) about using for soup, recently). Its flesh is rather like pumpkin and it's similarly sweet, though not identical taste. It might serve as a reasonable substitute for pumpkin pie. Not that I think I've ever had pumpkin pie myself, it being a US thing and specifically a Thanksgiving thing (I have known USIans be so ignorant of their own history and of the meaning of their holiday that they've asked UKians if they celebrate Thanksgiving).