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Hi Mommy1211,

I lived in Korea for 10 years. My dad teaches English there and my mom is Korean. Although I’m fluent in Korean, I was never fluent with the names of food if you know what I mean. I grew up with a “don’t ask questions, just EAT” mantra that is so embedded in my brain that I still find myself doing this, haha!

I have a few Korean cookbooks that have the pumpkin soup recipe you talked about, but the measurements are in metric form. It was harder to follow and it almost always never tasted *right* even though the books were published in Korea. I found that Maangchi’s recipes are closer to what my mom’s and aunties food tastes like so I usually stick to her ingredients and measurements (as opposed to the usual eyeballing that almost all Korean “moms” do). I’m not sure if Maangchi posted a pumpkin soup recipe, but I can try to translate a pumpkin soup recipe from one of my Korean cook books if you’d like? Or maybe my mom’s recipe? That’s if she actually TRIES to give me exact measurements for each ingredient…

Just to make sure we’re on the same page, did your pumpkin soup look more like a puree? Almost like a butternut squash soup?