Cat Pumpkin
I love this time of year. October is one of the best month’s for me. I love Pumpkins, Halloween and the lead up to Firework night. As these things involve alot of seeing friends and family, i naturally turn to what i’m going to make gluten free food-wise to celebrate. We carved our pumpkin this year into a rather sketchy cat face… we had a bit of difficultly getting the teeth right but i think we got there in the end. Miko clearly wanted to know if this was a representation of himself as he sat by the carving process.
There are so many great things about soup that i could write about but the ultimate reasons i feel that soup is so great is because it is frugal, easy, adaptable and comforting. I find all of those in combination to be also healing. The number one way to warm the heart and the body before you head out to watch the fireworks light the sky, or indeed to sip from a flask in gloves and several layers as you watch the crackles appear. Maybe you’ll be heading out with the kids to go trick or treating, in which case you better get something in them that’s healthy before the inevitable sugar consumption makes headway.
On this occasion it was getting the most out of the huge pumpkin as we could as well as making something that would be a bit different to our endless ham and cheese sandwich pitfall of work lunches. Put the effort in at the beginning of the week and you’ll have a quick easy gluten free soup to pop into a container all throughout the week. The colds and flu have been going around the office and commute, so in the worry that i will probably be sick by the end of the month i’m gonna hit on the veggies, garlic, chilli as much as i can.
This soup may be a tad spicy for some, i would advise testing your chilli before you add it into the mix and also changing the type of chilli if you find birds eye chilli’s a tad too much. This soup is a fiery one but the sweetness of the Romano pepper and Pumpkin make it a nice balance instead of the chilli hitting you in the face completely. I love to add a dollop of cream or Crème Fraîche in at the end to swirl into the soup with a garlicy crouton. Top with some roasted pumpkin seeds and some grated parmasen and it’s a complete meal; one for all those feel good or what-to-feel-good moments.
Enjoy WB x
