Tuesday; versatile;

The versatile pumpkin, received from my neighbour Virginia;

Pumpkins  look beautiful, they lend themselves for decoration until the time comes to use them for cooking.

They grow in many colours, sizes and  forms.

What do you fancy tonight? 

A deliciously roasted pumpkin, skin and all?

A fine tasting pumpkin soup in the french style  or perhaps with a hint of cumin and ginger?

Not to forget a creamy pumpkin risotto with a handful  of  true parmigiano reggiano?

For dessert a luscious pumpkin pie, sweet  with a hint of spices and lashings of cream?

any of these and 101 more to use a pumpkin.

The time is here to scatter different  pumpkin seeds. I let them grow and spread downwards where nothing comes into their way as they  need a lot of space  to grow. 

Applause for the humble pumpkin.

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Monday; cheers...

Banca Ridge Merlot;

served in a big,  fancy green glass; I like to break rules; at least some!

This is a very nice Merlot,  from the granit belt. 

The wine-cup is the little silver well,

Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell.

William Shakespeare, English poet and writer, (1564-1616)

Link Poetic Takeaway's; a trivial world of words;

Sunday; so simple, so daisy;

Leave a door open for happiness; Titania



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Sepia Saturday 142; Three...

1953  with my little, much loved "adoptive" brother and his sister. When he was a young man he had a brush with death as he was badly electrocuted and was lucky to survive.  Later he died, still at an early age.

A few years later

1959, holidays in Austria; my mother holding baby Susie, daughter of my cousin. Susie was looking at my red painted fingernails and said "Zuckerl" meaning lollies.

and again a  few years later...

My mother with my first born daughter and  Amanda  sister to Susie;

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Friday; Thoughts;

Photo on the way to Glen Innes;

To doubt is wise, to ask questions is wise, it is the only way to find the truth. Titania.

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Thursday; Apple pie;

Apple pie,  the universal  sweet pastry nobody ever says, no thank you.  Apple pie  comes in any version. You can let your fantasy run or you can rely on the good old  varieties. 
This one I baked quickly for an afternoon tea.
I still had some butter puff pastry in the freezer which I used for the base.
A good hand full ground almonds, apples peeled and cut in thin slices arranged over the base.
Tuck  some blobs   of raspberry jam between the apples. 
Mix half a cup of cream with a little sugar,  vanilla and  1 teaspoon cornflour, pour over the apples. Into the oven at 180 C until nicely crisp and the apples are soft, around 30 min. 

Easy as pie and done in no time! It is really tasty, but my favourite of them all is Tarte Tatin, which is also very easy to produce and fresh from the oven, slightly cooled with a decadent blob of whipped cream...no more to be said. 

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Wednesday; it's a dog's life;

Napping, Billy knows the best place...

“I do not particularly like the word 'work.' Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.” 
― Masanobu Fukuoka, The One-Straw Revolution

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