Halloween is coming up fast and furious, wherever you go just now shops are groaning under the weight of massive pumpkins, plastic skeletons are everywhere and orange and black is the overall colour-scheme of every shop in the land. Since you can’t seem to avoid pumpkins just now I thought I’d jump on the proverbial…
Pickled Pumpkin
With Halloween just a few days away pumpkins are all over the place. The blog world is groaning under the weight of pumpkin recipes from soup to pestos, sweets and puddings to breads and crisps. I couldn’t have Larder Love miss out on all that Halloween fun so this year we are making pickled pumpkin…
Pumpkin Preserve
Anyone who is well up on their jams, jellies and preserves will tell you that a preserve is something where the fruit is more whole than a mushier jam. I would of course agree with this but have you ever tried to ram a whole pumpkin into a jam jar? Possibly not. Now I could…
Pumpkin & Tomato Soup
2 kilo/4 1/2lb pumpkin 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion 1 tin chopped tomatoes 1 fresh red chilli 1 litre/1 3/4 pints chicken (or veggie) stock salt & pepper to taste Chop the pumpkin in half and remove the seeds (save these for roasting) and clear out all the stringy stuff. Now chop the…
Pumpkin Body Balm
Halloween is nearly upon us and the shops are practically throwing pumpkins at innocent passers by. Really it would be rude not to buy a pumpkin just now. Come on you just have to be able to use the damn thing in some way or another. Today is a BBC Radio day and I am…
How To Make Pumpkin Beauty Basics
Ah the pumpkin, are you fed up with the sight of them already? I know, they’re everywhere, carved out (very badly in the case of mine above!), made into soups, they’re in pies, they’r pureed, they are even in cup cakes for goodness sake. Is there no escape from the pumpkin? Well if we can’t…
