Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness?

[everydayupsanddowns]

Feels to me like Autumn is definitely ‘falling’ around here.

Any old favourite Autumnal meals or activities you are looking forward to?

Soups and stews?
Misty woodland walks?
Garden delights?
Preserves or baking?
Increasing insulin doses?
Dark mornings and log-fire evenings?

What does your diabetes Autumn involve?

 

[helli]

Going for a walk in a woodland, taking photos of the autumnal colours and kicking the fallen leaves.

 

[eggyg]

I’m making soup today. Leek and tattie. Yummy! I love walking in the autumn, not too hot and not too cold and lots of beautiful colours. What’s not to like? 🙂

 

[Inka]

I love the Autumn colours 🙂 We try to see how many different colours of leaves we can find - shades of brown, orange, golds and yellows and rich reds. We also love collecting conkers and other nuts.

For foods, I like soups like Leek and Potato, traditional stew and casseroles. It’s also a great time for fruit crumbles - yum!

My insulin needs usually change as it gets darker and when the clocks change.

One other thing I’m looking forward to is a bit more sunshine! There’s something special about a sunny, mild day in October 🙂

 

[Robin]

Walking, and riding, when it's not too hot and the ground's not too boggy.
Definitely start of hot soup season, will consign the Gazpacho recipe to the bookshelf til next summer.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry about the double-post weirdness! I’ve merged the two threads. I blame dodgy wifi. 🙄

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

We”ve already had our first leek and potato.

And also ‘brown rice and vegetable gratin’ (an old Delia family favourite).

Crumbles have been making good use of fallers from our Cox’s, and we‘ve made 2 batches of jam (raspberry and bramble seedless). The green tomato & chilli chutney is on the shelf maturing in time for Christmas. We have just enough of last year’s to see us through!

Dog walks in the morning are noticeably nippier. T shirt is no longer enough!

 

[miguel81]

It's not Autumn here just yet, but when it comes I do like it. Leek and potato for me too. Slow cooker works overtime, log fires and I change from Gin/Vodka and tonic to whisky and ginger ale. Unless they fix my sight problem soon then I am going to resort to an old-fashioned Christmas dinner, roast chicken, 'cos that is all I can get in my small village and I can't drive to Baeza, Ubeda or Linares to get nicer stuff, Rib of beef, duck etc. Never mind, there are so many people in the world who have far less.

 

[Becka]

So I had a day out on March 22nd, then been to a few medical appointments the last few weeks. It is getting bright around 6am and the weather have neither been warm nor cold. So I am not sure why you are all talking about autumn when it is clearly still spring.

 

[atoll]

Getting stocked up again to avoid the panic buying in october,got a deep freeze now on the Catamaran so we can isolate in style without having to rely on tinned bully beef,chorizo and soya mince, might even freeze down some turkey and ham for an Xmas dinner on anchor.

we also have a better outboard if we need to go fishing and foraging or do an emergency run up the river if supplies run low.

diesel tanks are full,cooking gas for 6 months,just need to do a last veggie bulk buy if a lockdown looks likely.
might even invest in a lobster pot so we can have fresh crab and lobster,fish,oysters and mussels get boring after a while.

a few photos from last 9 week lockdown in our secret hideaway

 

[Docb]

And ready to repel boarders!

 

[atoll]

And ready to repel boarders!

not sure about the boarders,but there are some very well fed wood pigeons,and ducks that have Pie written all over them......

 

[Bloden]

Soup! I really don’t like it, especially leek and potato, LOL. I just find soup too filling. A couple of spoonfuls and I’m stuffed! I’d much rather have a lovely stew...each to their own.🙂

 

[eggyg]

Soup! I really don’t like it, especially leek and potato, LOL. I just find soup too filling. A couple of spoonfuls and I’m stuffed! I’d much rather have a lovely stew...each to their own.🙂

What! Homemade soup is the bestest! Well, mine is. 😉

 

[JJay]

Time to make sloe gin!

 

[eggyg]

We”ve already had our first leek and potato.

And also ‘brown rice and vegetable gratin’ (an old Delia family favourite).

Crumbles have been making good use of fallers from our Cox’s, and we‘ve made 2 batches of jam (raspberry and bramble seedless). The green tomato & chilli chutney is on the shelf maturing in time for Christmas. We have just enough of last year’s to see us through!

Dog walks in the morning are noticeably nippier. T shirt is no longer enough!

So far Mr Eggy has made rhubarb ( from our garden) and ginger chutney and apple sauce from our Brambleys. We have tons of green tomatoes which don’t have a hope in hell of turning red so they will be made into apple and green tomato chutney. Damson tree is laden but as neither of us particularly like them they will be given away to family and friends to make damson gin. I once made damson jam and it is a pain in the proverbial, you have to remove all the stones! Never again!

 

[Vonny]

Collecting a huge pile of shiny conkers to grace our table is one of my autumn pastimes. They stay there, getting duller and duller, until spring.

Stews and casseroles every time for me, but this year I will halve the potato ration as I won't be having any. I like my stews in a bowl, with a spoon, because that feels most comforting.

 

[Ivostas66]

Sloe Vodka - keeping an eye out for them from the end of end of September through October and then making up a few litres. Takes 6 months in Demi John's and then another 6 months plus in bottles. Tastes wonderful, but is ridiculously potent.

This year's tomato, pepper and chilli haul is ridiculous so we have a freezer full of soups and also sauces (along with tons of courgette soup made up earlier through the summer). Beetroot (straight from the garden) risotto is lovely.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Time to make sloe gin!

Sloe Vodka - keeping an eye out for them from the end of end of September through October and then making up a few litres. Takes 6 months in Demi John's and then another 6 months plus in bottles. Tastes wonderful, but is ridiculously potent.

This year's tomato, pepper and chilli haul is ridiculous so we have a freezer full of soups and also sauces (along with tons of courgette soup made up earlier through the summer). Beetroot (straight from the garden) risotto is lovely.

Sloe Gin is wonderful! I gather it helps to allow the first frost to hit the sloes (old wive’s tail??).

My parents gave me some bullace last year (a wild plum even smaller than damsons) and we’ve still got some bullace vodka left - not for long I suspect once the nights start drawing in!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I once made damson jam

Damson jam is absolutely wonderful though!

Can you not just halve them and skim the stones off as the fruit softens away? (high risk and there were always some left in, but I think that was what my Mum’s Mum used to do with the jam from their enormous damson tree)