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Last weekend we learned that before jack-o-lanterns were made from pumpkins here in the US; the Irish carved turnips. When they brought the tradtion to the US, they began to use pumpkins….I found out why….
On the eve of Halloween, I decided to bring back the old tradition of turnip carving.

As a back up plan, I carved a pumpkin, first.

Then, I readied up various kitchen instruments including a pumpkin carving kit, knives, grapefruit knife, and spoon, etc.
Per 22 ½ Halloween tradition, Karen’s family came over. I sat on our living room floor with everyone from mom and dad Lav to little Adele as an audience. I grabbed my tools and went to work as they all watched. “Well, I exclaimed, at least there will be a lot of you to take me to the ER when I cut off my fingers”.

About an inch into the base of the turnip, I decided to try to “carve method” versus the “hallow-out method”. You can see below my “cheep way out”