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Coginio Catref (Home Cooking) At last… the plans are in place, the letters have gone out and the web site is up and running!! Coginio Cartref is the Welsh medium cookery equivalent to The Pumpkin Patch – my new venture! These cookery workshops will be for secondary school children, and will be held at Allt […]
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Tidy Up Time!!
What else is there to do when it’s blowing a gale? Well, I can think of plenty actually!! There’s the ironing, cleaning….. but nothing as satisfying as clearing out the shed and sorting out the pots whilst the rain lashes down! The Pumpkin Patch kids gloves all hung up ready for next time. Spades and […]
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Pumpkins, Gourds and Squashes!
Some of this years lovely pumpkins, gourds and squashes – They make great decorations indoors and out! One of the giants! This one never made the pot! Sam turned it into a charming lantern– it looked great lit up on the deck outside the kitchen!
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Autumn is here!! Where did the summer go!?
Over half term, I’ve been sorting out my photos… really time consuming but a great reminder of the summer just gone! It wasn’t all bad!! the sun did shine and vegetables grew – I have the evidence! Over the past few weeks at The Pumpkin Patch we’ve been clearing the raised beds for the winter…. […]
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A Warming Autumn Soup
Spicy Pumpkin Soup! Ingredients – what we need 1 medium Pumpkin or 1 large butternut squash 1 onion 2 carrots 1 large sweet potato 1 clove of garlic 6cm of root ginger chicken stock cube cream 20g butter salt and ground black pepper Method – how we make it! Cut your pumpkin into quarters, remove […]
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Summer at the Pumpkin Patch These were some of last years pumpkins and squashes. I’ve just started to pick some of this years crop of weird and interesting gourds! This week at our weekly classes we’ll be making spicy pumpkin soup which was a great hit with the children last year. It’s even better served […]
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September 2009
Welcome!… Croeso! Just to get me started I thought I’d share the most recent Pumpkin Patch newsletter, sent out a few weeks ago. Over the summer we’ve have harvested a constant supply of beans and peas, courgettes and marrows, potatoes, herbs and flowers for the kitchen. Now things are starting to die back and I […]