Month: November 2019

  • Hearty Pumpkin Soup

    Here’s a simple recipe to use up some of your pumpkin glut. This will make enough for four large portions. Ingredients:– 900g of roughly chopped and peeled pumpkin– one large red onion– one parsnip– one carrot– one large potato– three cloves of garlic– 150ml of double cream– Two vegetable or chicken stock cubes– 1tsp cinnamon–…

  • Rain, rain, go away…

    With all of the rain recently, it feels like the allotment has turned into a bog! We had to wait two weeks to be able to plant the trees. There was either never a long enough break in the rain to plant them or the ground was too sodden. Luckily, we were able to plant…

  • The Darker Half

    How is it November already? I hope you all had a wonderful Samhain/Halloween. We have now entered the darker half of the year. How did you all celebrate? We spent our morning at the allotment and visited Kenilworth Castle later on – but I will post about that separately. Our pumpkins did quite well, we…