Autumn eating

[Pepper Pig Profile]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/s ... y-oconnell

[Joanbunting Profile]

True, but mushrooms are a quintessentially Autumn taste to me.

They are indeed but morels are spring mushrooms!

[Joanbunting Profile]

Talking pies, rabbit pie with bacon, mushrooms and black pudding - preferably with a suet crust?

Or Normandy rabbit casserole with a leek and potato gratin.

[Badger's Mate Profile]

This has reminded me of hot Stilton & mushroom baguettes, or Stilton sandwiches eaten with a ripe Comice pear, the latter a particular Autumnal favourite. These days you can get a version of each of the ingredients all year, but the pears are best towards the end.

Rabbit tends to be a cold weather meat for us, although I do like to keep the odd back leg for tandoori on the barbeque in the summer. Hopefully there will be some reasonable bunnies available in Norfolk next month.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/s ... eera-sodha

The final part. I like the look of that aubergine dish.

[Pepper Pig Profile]

Rachel Roddy.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/s ... tin-recipe

[Joanbunting Profile]

Tonight I am doing a saddle of rabbit with mustard followed by pears in red wine. I think that is fairly autumnal

[Uschi Profile]

Cabbage in all its guises is an autumn staple. Last night we had "Krautnudeln" (braised cabbage with pasta) and tonight it is a bean stew.

[WWordsworth Profile]

We have beef flat ribs for tomorrow and I feel mashed potato and buttered cabbage coming on.

[cherrytree Profile]

Badger’s Mate has brought back a fond memory of when we lived in Norfolk over 30 years ago. The doorbell would ring, the children would rush to the door and shout’ It’s the rabbit man!’
And there he was, a string of rabbits slung round his neck. I’d learned to skin a rabbit from my dad, and so there was a cheap supper. Our four were never squeamish or sentimental.

[Amyw Profile]

Went to the lovely Darts farm yesterday and now feeling very autumnal . Bought some lovely Braeburn apples , some nice leeks which I might make a soup with and good cheese too

[scullion Profile]

whatever happened to carving a turnip (swede)? that was all anyone carved when i was little - never a pumpkin they were a rarity - i can't remember seeing any when i was little.
the nearest i got to a squash (other than cucumbers and melons) were gourds that someone grew for their ornamental value.

[chihuahua8 Profile]

When I was a little girl no one celebrated Halloween, at least not in my part of the Britain. I've always thought of it as an American 'import'!
JeanT

[scullion Profile]

no, it's one of the old ones, purloined by the christian church - like easter and yule. i think the labour party and communism purloined beltane!

[Amyw Profile]

I think the Celts celebrated All Hallows’ Eve where the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest . Halloween is very American with the pumpkins , trick or treating etc

[scullion Profile]

well, strictly speaking, all hallows means all saints - and i don't think the celts went in for saints.
hallowe'en is just a corruption of that. pumpkins and trick or treating are american, i'm sure - although the scots and some northern areas have 'guising' on that day so it may have spread from there to the states.

[Lusciouslush Profile]

OK - lets get this sorted - ' halloween ' is for tourists...…………..


Us proper witches have a totally different date……...........

[scullion Profile]

hahahahahaha!

[Stokey Sue Profile]

Didn’t the celts, especially the Irish, celebrate Samhain? I understood that to be the source of many of the traditions

We did the swede lanterns and apple bobbing, mainly with the Brownies, in Hampshire early 1960s, and my Black Country dad was familiar with them

[Amyw Profile]

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.expr ... -treat/amp