There goes October, flying by and ending with a Pumpkin-filled Halloween weekend.
On Saturday we spent much of the day cooking. Jamie made a roasted red pepper and pumpkin soup, with shallots, garlic and onion.A great colour for a Halloween starter.
I used the other half of the pumpkin for pumpkin pie. I used this recipe, but baked the pumpkin rather than boiling it.I was pleased to see how much pumpkin purée it produced.
The pie case was bought rather than home-made. I think it could have been a bit deeper.
I was pleased with it. A very tasty dessert…and breakfast…and lunch.
For the main course of our Halloween meal we had Veggie haggis with mushed-up roast potato and celeriac. We used the celeriac that I grew from seed. Although they were extremely slow to grow they eventually produced some pretty good veg - though nothing like the size they sell in shops. We got these two chunks from two plants.
For the main course of our Halloween meal we had Veggie haggis with mushed-up roast potato and celeriac. We used the celeriac that I grew from seed. Although they were extremely slow to grow they eventually produced some pretty good veg - though nothing like the size they sell in shops. We got these two chunks from two plants.
We visited the allotment to leave two Jack-o-lanterns on the site. We carved these three.
At the plot it was sunny and warm with a clear blue sky, but an hour earlier the wind was howling and there was torrential rain. In fact it took down several trees in the area and blew a whole roof off a barn just down the road.
Luckily there was little damage on site; just a few branches, the usual compost bin lids and a couple of cages in unusual positions!
So the weekend ended with the film ‘Young Frankenstein’ (I do love Gene Wilder) whilst chomping on roasted spiced pumpkin seeds and today I have a day off work. Yay!I expect we’ll visit the plot later. Here is XTC for the song title.
