Inevitable pumpkin soup

With half a pumpkin to use up, soup was inevitable.
Roasted with pumpkin with chilli and olive oil, then added to a basic soup of onion, garlic and veg stock. Cooked for a while then blitzed.
Added double cream at the end in a suitably halloween spider fashion. Served with sourdough toast. Delicious and very filling. Those puree soups really keep you filled up.

Pumpkin and aubergine green curry

Colour issues again with the pumpkin - which seemed to get all grey :S Also I got scared by how much my fingers stung from cutting the chillies, so went wussy with the spice paste - mistake. this was barely a curry! Got to have some guts :) and using coconut block reconstituted with water to make 'milk' was rubbish - weird consistency that kept seperating. Well - this is all the bad stuff - in the end - it was still pretty tasty and rescued me from extreme tired after double restaurant shift.

Pumpkin Tortelli

Made the pasta with new recipe which only used 200g flour and 2 eggs - and was enough for 4 people.

 Pumpkin was roasted in the oven, then pureed. Added breadcrumbs and loads of parmesan.
Pasta was made and rested only for 15 minutes, then pushed through the pasta maker, to a thinner setting than usual, so that when doubled over, the tortelli wouldn't be too stodgy. It worked well - consistency was good.
Pumpkin was a bit disappointing as it went a pale yellow colour - not like butternut squash which keeps its brilliant orange.

We finished the dish with classic 'sauce' - butter and sage, more parmesan, splash of olive oil and lots of black pepper.
A light and satisfying meal. Sage butter makes anything good ;)

Tortelli took some time to roll out, cut out and assemble,  and i kept thinking i should get annoyed with it taking so long - but immediately realised that actually its just really fun. Especially when you've got someone to chat to in the kitchen. I could spend hours making this stuff. And they stack up so nicely when done. Brilliant.

Pumpkin

What am i going to do with you?