The thunder was rumbling over the hills just before dark tonight. I stood out the back admiring the lightning – and got quite a few shots of empty sky. The above shot was a bit of a fluke, but it made me happy! Very hard to capture a strike like that in daylight!
Anyway – Monday has been and gone for me. Just a couple of random images and events to share
Cut up my last pumpkin. I made part of it into soup and the rest of the pieces are now in the freezer waiting for the next time I need pumpkin on the table.
The soup is very straight-forward!
I bake my pumpkin – better flavour.
I fry up some onion in a pot, add some chicken stock, (I put in a litre today) added the pumpkin, and also a couple of potatoes to simmer.
Once the potatoes are cooked, I use the ‘Gee Whizzer’ to puree. I also then like to put in a can of coconut milk. Gives it that creamy-dreamy flavour!
(Probably add salt to taste)
Anyway – its easy with minimum ingredients and tasted pretty good!
I also saved the seeds
Then there was accidental-guest torture
The chillies in the hothouse that stayed alive over winter have been putting out very very small fruit. So I went and nipped most of them off in hope that the plants will reflower and grow more impressive sized chillies over the summer. These, as well as being small, have no heat and are almost like a capsicum to chew on
So I am giving my friend Rachel the grand tour of the garden, I pick a chilli, bite the end off and wax lyrical about how sweet it is.
Then hand it over.
As Rachel takes a bite I am saying “See, not hot at all! Just like a red capsicum”
Her eyes welled up a bit as she said in a small voice “Well, it seems hot to me…”
She is thinking I am totally bad-ass chewing on raw chilli and I am thinking she must be pretty sensitive, so I took the chilli back and took another bite to make sure.
Holy Cats!! I made a bee-line for the strawberry patch to start trying to put the fire out in my mouth!! I think it was about half an hour before my taste buds came back to life. 🙂
Ahhhh – the perils of gardening!
(BTW Rachel has fully forgiven me.)
I bought an old ladder at the market yesterday – I wanted a shoe rack for the grungy outdoor footwear.
I might eventually paint it…
Anyway, hope your Monday is/was fabulous.
We have the rain back and the weeds are growing… like weeds!! Must get back into the gardening clothes ASAP!
Cheers
What a lovely pumpkin! It’s cooler here in Mississippi with the high being 62. We have had record high temps here for this time of year so it’s a nice break from that. We are also in a bit of a drought as it has barely rained since early September. The walls in my house are cracking! I am getting ready for Thanksgiving holiday this Thursday and wondering where all my energy is supposed to come from to cook all the food!?! Love your re-purposed ladder, too.
I think I will put some of those seeds straight in the ground and see what happens 🙂 It was really tasty – so worth growing more.
Seems like you have our drought from last season! It was incredibly dry here. The first rains are such a relief!
Not a good sign that your house walls are cracking!!
Thats right – big meals and gatherings for you on Thursday! Hope you have a lovely time and that someone else does the dishes! 🙂
Oh my, I really laughed at the chili episode. 🙂
lol – we are still laughing too!!