It's pumkin time

 I think it's quite clear now that I love autumn. And this is an other reason: Pumpkins!

So very delicious to eat and oh so pretty as decoration. I'd place them all over my house if my partner wouldn't stop me.. There's a little farm store close to where we live that sells all sorts of thingss throughout the year. Always the lovliest freshest fruits and vegetables, honey, marmelade, sometimes soap or other goodies they get from locals. They have a "pick your own flowers" garden and sell the prettiest sunflowers I've ever seen. Fresh out of the field, so they stay pretty for a long time at home.

I always love visiting them, they are the nicest people too.

This day we got pumpkins. Two smaller ones, that I haven't used yet, and one big one that gave me over 4kg of pumkin flesh. I made a whole lot of soup and even though I'm usually not really a big fan of soup, pumpkin soup is the best. We ate it with my dearest GG's freshly baked bread and some soft goats cheese.

Omnomnomnom!







 GG carved up the rest of the pumpkin into a super awesome cute little kitty Jack O' Lantern. Isn't it adorable? It is!

 

And when I start cooking, I can't stop. These apples came from the same farm we got the pumpkins from, I made a lovely apple sauce out of it, with extra cinnamon. Used honey as sweetener, as I'm trying to cut all refined sugar out of my diet, trying to live a more healthy life. I think it tastes even better than sugar.  

Use about 100 - 150 grams of honey for 1kg apples.

 Some almost-healthy banana muffins to finish my kitchen time. Ran out of ingredients to make more stuff ;)  
The recipe is from 'How to be a Domestic Goddess' by Nigella Lawson.

Now to think of all the lovely things I can do with my other pumpkins. And the new pumpkins I'm totally going to buy over the next few weeks. It's only pumpkin time once a year, after all. Eat ALL the pumpkins!

What's you're favourite pumpkin recipe?

My family and me

My family is mostly four-legged and furry. Except for me, of course, and my partner.  We live in a small house with a small garden, in a small town in the most eastern part of the Netherlands, 9km from the German border. We dream of moving to Sweden, but with the financial crisis going on at the moment, there is no way we will sell our current house, so we're just making the best of it, we do love our little home.

I love animals, I should've been born on a farm instead of in a big town, but alas, I was born in a town called Gouda, yes, from the cheese, and had parents who were not really loving my idea of a personal petting zoo. Now I've moved out and am proving that a small house with a small garden can be a small farm as well. Sofie is a Dutch Shepherd dog, my beautiful friend who I spent a lot of outdoorsy time with, I just love taking long walks with her. Her little doggy sister is Daisy, a maltese mix.

Lukas is a little street fighter, he's not home a lot, only when it's feeding time, or very cold. He likes to think of himself as a tough little man, but he is oh so camera shy. Mollie spends a lot of time sleeping on a sheeps skin, she's a princess kitty and likes to be treated that way.

And then the two bunny rabbits! Soofje and Lodewijk. They're both rescues and not tamable, believe me I tried! I don't know what happened tot hem before. They're agressive, grumpy and totally no fun at all, but what can I say.. I love their little moody ways. I risk my fingers to put them in their play pen every day, and back in their house, feed them yummy goodies and take pictures of them, and apart from that, just let them live their bunny lifes.

That's my family! You will probably see more of them every now and again. Because I just loooove them and can't help myself, I need to show them off.

First post

Welcome to my little space in "bloggerland".

My little space to talk about and show the things that I love. Enjoying my simple life in a simple house in a simple town in the Netherlands. Together with my partner and our platora of pets.

A proper introduction soon!