last mow of the year

 lentil soup recipe added to frugal

beautiful colours everywhere

geen leaves

and I found this exciting, £1.49 from Amazon:

moo free choc Santa

and the phenomenal apple abundance continues unabated…

apples

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seasonal squash from Lidl - to carve or to soup?

 There is a pumpkin soup recipe and a butternut squash recipe on our soup page, though lately weve been enjoying them in a creamy soup thus: peel, deseed and chop squash of choice, cover with water and bring to boil. Add in onion, lots of garlic, a chilli and salt to taste. Blend up with a handful of cashews… gorgeous.

our very old lady Fantine (20) keeping cosy with Lion

favourite graze box yet, containing both chocolate and olives!

 Graze - link should still be good to get 1 free box and next one half price with no obligation to continue past free one.

the ever changing colours of the loch

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a very simple recipe but amazingly good

recipe up here

cheese and onion pasty served cold the next day

 made in a very similar manner to the basic pasties on frugal but using Kamut flour in the pastry and filled with chopped red onion, cubed potatoes and cheezly, all cooked in a little soya milk first, also very good

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broth

Autumn. Cold winds. Rain. Hail. Even a few moments of snow yesterday between bursts of hot sunshine. Walking on the South side of the hill in the woods it is suddenly no longer autumn but the end of summer. Off with jackets, faces to the sun then round the corner into the North and winter, now walking against horizontal hailstones. It is confusing… we need soup

Method: soak a cup of broth or soup mix overnight, then cook up for an hour or so before adding chopped potato, carrot and onion. Cook until veg is tender, add some kale or other leafy greens and a teaspoon of vecon stock. Simmer a few minutes longer then dish up and garnish with parsley or chervil. Be warm.

Beautiful necklace from Davie for 20th anniversary… amazing stone, keep gazing into it’s enchanted seascape interior…

necklace

from this jeweller in Montrose who specialises in Celtic designs and styles (get the feeling the website is a work in progress).

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lovely hot soup

recipe

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the sunflower opened, by newly painted bench

waiting to be shelled

I worked very hard painting that furniture so expect to see it in every picture! Shelling the beans was somewhat labour intensive, aching arms for one bowl to put in soup…

beautiful beans

While shelling I contemplated growing runner beans instead next year…

they are tasty raw, been having them in salads

But then I put them in the leek and potato soup a couple of minutes before the end of cooking time:

leek, potato and broad bean soup

oh my… the flavour, the tenderness, no bought beans compare to this. The just picked freshness… totally gorgeous. They don’t take much room to grow, each plant produces lots and lots of pods… I now intend doing them again despite the shelling drudgery

recipe similar to this but with the obvious inclusion of beans instead of peas and I didn’t bother thickening it with flour.

One more day to enter the competition below!

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pink and white tatties

Never before have we had so many of these beautiful apples of the Earth. Pull a stem and reach into the ground for tuber after tuber – the plot is full of them Weather conditions have no doubt contributed to this abundant harvest but I’ve also been a more diligent waterer on dry days. Sunshine finds me standing at the well, filling cans with the water so rich in iron it smells of metal. Plants love it. Potatoes are thirsty roots.

…and we do love these pots: in salads with mayo and chives; as a side dish with marg and parsley and in soups with kale and onion from the garden too

They make rather a nice ‘sack of spuds’ too in our shop!!

a tattieish tote bag

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minty pea and nettle soup

recipe up here

wheatgrass

been drinking wheatgrass juice with friends

slight deviation away from green

Raw chocolate pudding teamed up with Swedish Glace (booja booja stuff in a tub is raw if you prefer). Pudding was made thus: grind up some raw chocolate nibs (could use cocoa though of course not raw) then blend with a large avocado and 2 ripe bananas with a squirt of agave nectar – makes enough for four people. I also added a little water for a smoother result.

Poppies:

inside a flower

seeds within

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colour

Planted my berry bushes from Suttons yesterday, well protected there from the rabbits Potatoes are going in today… Dipping into the Anastasia series again to get truly inspired again with growing, so different from anything else I’ve ever read.

honey berry bush, in beside goji and blue

 Made wonderful leek, potato and wild garlic soup from the recipe on Cat’s blog

pond flowers

fairy all springlike now beside the Archangel dead nettles

rabbit bones

daff

new leaves on sweet chestnut

flowering currant - is full of bees, lovely noise

new mint

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The bridge did get finished:

Now this may appear to be a blurry photo gone wrong – well, it is - but it is also  a picture of trees reflected in chocolate so worthy of inclusion

It is a montezuma’s very dark bar…

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