This an extremely easy recipe, and is also a great introduction to cooking with squash for those that have not cooked with it before. Squash, when raw, is incredibly hard so you need to make sure your knife is sharp (but watch those fingers, m’kay?). However, when you cook it, it becomes soft and sweet. It’s natural…
History What are Squash? Common Varieties How to peel a squash How to clean squash seeds Recipes History Pumpkins and squash are believed to have originated in the ancient Americas. Archeologists have determined that variations of squash and pumpkins were cultivated along river and creek banks along with sunflowers and beans. This took place long before…
Other than the ubiquitous Butternut Squash, and the odd culinary pumpkin around Halloween, squash is notoriously hard to find in great variety in British supermarkets. I am not entirely sure why they are not stocked more widely, but one of the main reasons is that I think most people don’t realise how versatile they are. In an…
October is one of my favourite months. Not only does it signal the return of The Walking Dead, but also Halloween. It is also the time when the recipes I work on invariably have one thing in common – pumpkin. I am a big fan of pumpkin and have several recipes on here involving this…
Another year, and another birthday. I had adamantly said that I would not make my own cake like last year, but that went out the window when I spotted Tescos were selling Libby’s Pumpkin Purée. Previously, I have had to order this online and pay extortionately, but now it is much easier to explore my…
I made some pumpkin purée this weekend from the pumpkins that I managed to grow. About half a dozen pumpkins survived the slug invasion, and while they will last a good while uncut, the easiest way to store them for future cooking purposes is as purée. It can be frozen in purée form until required….
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