The weather has been awfully depressing for the last couple of days in Toronto. 

Rainy & chilly at night, humid & warm during the day.

I wanted to make a special treat to lift up the mood, so I dug up a recipe for "Oven-baked spicy seafood & rice cake in butternut squash." Long name for a rather simple dish =)

Thanks to Halloween, or autumn, there are plenty of assorted pumpkins in any grocery store these days. Some are rather scary looking and inedible, but butternut squash is very sweet and tasty - filled with nutrients too. 

Here's what we had for dinner.

Inside, it's filled with seafood, vegetables, rice cakes, and topped with mozzarella cheese.

It takes really long to cook the pumpkin, so I just popped it in the microwave for 10 minutes. Then you can carve the top off really easily, and scoop away the seeds & fillings. 

The seafood and veggies (anything you like, really) are cooked separately, with spicy & sweet korean sauce. You could substitute with tomato sauce, and make it a more italian dish. Fill up the pumpkin with the seafood mix and sprinkle lots of mozzarella cheese on top, and broil it in the oven just until the cheese melts. 

Not so bad, right?

It's pretty loud outside because of nuit blanche right now, I don't get why people need to get drunk for art exhibits. I'm too old to wait in line in the freezing cold so...staying indoors tonight.