The Triffids are coming. Fortunately I must have been so drunk last night that I missed the green meteorites that blinded everyone else, but, when I looked behind the old barn where I threw some pumpkin seeds earlier in the year, there they were
Sinister things - not only have they swarmed up the side of the barn but climbed a 9' hedge and are climbing down the other side...they sit there gradually taking over the world, rattling their stems. People tell me they are pumpkins - we know better - we had to fight back......
We grabbed one of their "pumpkins"
BB sliced off the outer rind
Then cut it in half and scooped out the soft pulp and seeds
The flesh was chopped into 1" cubes
Mean time I had a wander round the garden for a few more ingredients
Onions (1 per lb of chopped pumpkin)
Thyme (1 1/2 tbs of chopped leaves per lb of pumpkin)
I grabbed some garlic thats been drying in the shed (1 clove per lb of pumpkin)
BB sorted out a load of chicken stock (1 1/4 pints per lb of pumpkin)
The onions were roughly chopped and sweated off in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil
Then the pumpkin was added with the garlic (crushed) and the lot was softened for a couple of minutes
I grated a couple of orange and juiced them (half an orange per lb of pumpkin)
Then I chopped the thyme having stripped out the stalks
The orange juice and rind, stock, and thyme was put in the big stock pan and the lot simmered for 20 minutes
After that we used a potato crusher to reduce it all to pulp and then gave it a quick whiz with a stick blender
And we had it for tea!
For all of that - I've been back out to the barn and they don't seem afraid...I think they are talking to each other
Self Sufficient - sadly not yet - our oranges aren't big enough this year (although they have fruited) so the Oranges were bought in - as was the olive oil although I plan to make our own next year. Still - we're getting there
Red
Sinister things - not only have they swarmed up the side of the barn but climbed a 9' hedge and are climbing down the other side...they sit there gradually taking over the world, rattling their stems. People tell me they are pumpkins - we know better - we had to fight back......
We grabbed one of their "pumpkins"
BB sliced off the outer rind
Then cut it in half and scooped out the soft pulp and seeds
The flesh was chopped into 1" cubes
Mean time I had a wander round the garden for a few more ingredients
Onions (1 per lb of chopped pumpkin)
Thyme (1 1/2 tbs of chopped leaves per lb of pumpkin)
I grabbed some garlic thats been drying in the shed (1 clove per lb of pumpkin)
BB sorted out a load of chicken stock (1 1/4 pints per lb of pumpkin)
The onions were roughly chopped and sweated off in a couple of tablespoons of olive oil
Then the pumpkin was added with the garlic (crushed) and the lot was softened for a couple of minutes
I grated a couple of orange and juiced them (half an orange per lb of pumpkin)
Then I chopped the thyme having stripped out the stalks
The orange juice and rind, stock, and thyme was put in the big stock pan and the lot simmered for 20 minutes
After that we used a potato crusher to reduce it all to pulp and then gave it a quick whiz with a stick blender
And we had it for tea!
For all of that - I've been back out to the barn and they don't seem afraid...I think they are talking to each other
Self Sufficient - sadly not yet - our oranges aren't big enough this year (although they have fruited) so the Oranges were bought in - as was the olive oil although I plan to make our own next year. Still - we're getting there
Red
