Our New Life in the Country: Ooops...you're a Pumpkin!

Wednesday, 21 July 2010

Ooops...you're a Pumpkin!

7.30 am this morning, first harvest of the day

Every day now things need to be harvested, I literally cannot keep up with veggies screaming "pick me, pick me" as I walk past (at least in my mind, they don't talk....yet!).

I thought I had picked two squashes this morning, turns out after looking at the Kitchen Garden plan in the diary, (a certain little doggie has taken great delight in removing all my plant labels from the veggie beds, mentioning no names....ROSY!!) and it turns out they are in fact pumpkins, so they could possibly have been left to get even bigger. I am not going in the polytunnel I know there are some HUGE courgettes waiting for me!

So now I'm on the lookout for a young pumpkin recipe to use for tea, any ideas?

Sue xx

8 comments:

Anne in Oxfordshire21 July 2010 at 09:42
Fabulous, I just love reading about your picking times, and what you discover :-) ..
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Vintage from the Village21 July 2010 at 10:16
Hi Thanks for lavender price list, I will be in touch when I run out !
Nice veg !
Sue x
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ted and bunny21 July 2010 at 10:28
ah, could young pumpkins be curried...I've done that before with firm squashes.

Hope all is well with you- raining here in between sunshine
xx
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Sue21 July 2010 at 10:41
Mmmm.....curried pumpkin, now that sounds good.

Thank you.

Sue xx
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Jim21 July 2010 at 18:10
What about a chilled something or other....like a gaspacho? Don't know if it would work but it sounds possible.
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H21 July 2010 at 18:34
maybe roast and then use in a goats cheese/red onion/pumpkin lasagne? I'm forever being told off for not making REAL lasagne...but i like the veggie versions!
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Sue22 July 2010 at 08:50
Thank you for the suggestions, I also had a phone call (thanks Mum) suggesting Pumpkin Soup or Pumpkin Pie from Delias book, and an email (thanks Rebecca) suggesting Pumpkin Bread.

Suddenly all my fears that I have planted way too many have evaporated.

Thanks again, I see a whole new vein developing on this Blog of what we eat over winter!

Sue xx
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BadPenny22 July 2010 at 09:02
spicey pumkin soup - yum - I'm giving courgettes away now !! No eggs for sale this week as I'm hoarding them for a friend's birthday party - I'm supplying egg sarnies !!!
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It was simply the wild and wacky ramblings of a 50 something townie turned country girl called Sue, who lost her heart to a sailor and started a new life in the country .... many years ago. On a path that took us from Cumbria to Oxfordshire, to Berkshire and then we found our home at the bottom of a wet and windy Welsh hillside by a busy main road.

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