It’s the southern hemisphere Halloween, and I totally get it why Halloween features pumpkin lamps. Halloween is the final harvest festival, and marks the start of the season of gathering in – firewood, mulch, water, pumpkins, passata, preserves, warm clothes, books, tribe and wisdom.
This is a very fast, healthy, easy, seasonal, meal in a bowl. It will generously serve two on its own, or four as a main side dish. The key ingredient, besides the pumpkin, is a Moroccan spice mix.
My all time, very favourite, can’t be beaten dinner is a plate of roast root vegetables. On their own. Little crispy caramelised bits on the edges and each individual vegetable a star in its own right. With home grown, very fresh vegetables it’s amazing. But even with bought vegetables it’s pretty good.
I’m not a very authentic cook. I cook by feel, working from the base of what I have in the garden and what is in season rather than from a recipe. With the result that I often have to do the research afterwards to find out what to call it!
Pumpkin season. Infinite number of pumpkin recipes required. This one has used up several of our pumpkins, and will use up several more before the season ends.
It is Halloween in Australia, and peak of the pumpkin season. Roasted pumpkin seeds are a hugely healthy and totally addictive snack. And they are so easy.
Picked the first pumpkin of the season today. Pumpkins are wild in my garden. These Japs plant themselves every year, rambling over fences and down…