One crazy day with pumpkin.

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It was yet another Sunday and we had been to the grocery store for our regular weekend  grocery and vegetable shopping ,when my hubby  found a big grey ash gourd which was waiting for him to be picked up.So with the desire to relish on 'kashi halva'(a desert /sweet made with it),my hubby carried it home excitedly like a 'baby 'carried snugly on  arms.I was just grumbling within myself , foreseeing the difficulties I would face through in the process of preparing this dish and was calculating  all possible excuses to procrastinate  this straining  task.Nevertheless I was sure that there was no escape ;and I would be compelled to do the process of peeling ,grating ,cooking the grated gourd for a prolonged 1 hour time in sugar syrup ,accompanied by muscle pains on hands and shoulders , to  finally eat one small mass of condensed pumpkin dessert.To aggravate my grievance ,my dear hubby even added "If you find it hard to grate the whole gourd ,you can even keep a small portion for the 'curd curry' or 'dosa" and as if trying to propagate  the concept of 'recycling ',he also reminded me not to waste the pumpkin peel and that it  could be used for a 'sabji/palya/dry fry with  lentils!So with a sigh ,I reached home and after some efforts from my husband's side to pamper and motivate me ,I headed towards the kitchen and started cutting the pumpkin.And  guess what? to my delight I found that a  major portion of the pumpkin was rotten!Now it was my turn ;so with a sad face I went to my husband to show his rotten selection  and  somehow managed to convince him to compromise with  a  'curry'.:)So there ends the crazy day with the pumpkin:)