Pumpkin Soup Ahoy!

Pumpkin soup is something that's becoming a bit of a tradition in our house during autumn. I love starting new traditions with Liam! We will always change up little bits depending what we fancy, but here is our new favourite basic recipe :)



Serves roughly 4-6

1/4 of a medium pumpkin
2 tbsp ground coriander seeds
1 tsp cinnamon
small sprinkling of nutmeg
1/2 tsp dried chili flakes
1tsp paprika
2 leeks
2 carrots
4 potatos
1 stick of celery
1.5 litre of vegetable stock
1 can of coconut milk
Olive oil
Salt & pepper to taste

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200C/400F/ gas mark 6. Cut and peel pumpkin into small even sized chunks and  put in a baking tray. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle on your chili flakes, paprika and coriander seeds with a little salt and pepper. Place on middle shelf of oven for approx 30 minutes (until soft).

2. Peel and cut your potato's into small chunks and transfer to a pan of boiling salted water for approx 15 minutes (until soft). Time this to finish with the pumpkin.

3. Once the potato's are on, chop the celery, leeks and carrots and fry in a big pan with some olive oil. Do this gently for about 15 minutes - you don't want to brown them!

4. Add the pumpkin, potato, stock,coconut milk, cinnamon and nutmeg to the pan and bring to the boil. I like to puree half of the soup because I like some bits, use a hand blender until you have a consistency you like.

5. Season to taste and serve with fresh bread, I like poppy seed - ENJOY! :)


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Autumn Playlist

Here's a little playlist I've been putting together for Autumn :) I hope you all like it! What sort of things do you listen to this time of year? I just love anything cozy and happy.

I got three new Yankee's today! Cranberry Ice, Sugared Apple and the one I'm currently burning; Kitchen Spice. They are all so yummy :) Do you have different scents throughout the year? Which are your favorites? My mum's favorite is Christmas Eve, she has a HUGE jar of it but only ever lights it on Christmas Eve! Shes a cutie.

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Hello Autumn

I think its pretty safe to say Autumn is here. This week the leaves were suddenly beautiful hues of red, orange and yellow and starting to pile on the pavements. It seems everybody says this, but Autumn is by far my most favorite season. I love beginning to wrap up warm and putting my boots on! I love all the beautiful colours people wear in Autumn. I love hot chocolates by the fire with Liam. I love breaking out the cozy scented Yankee Candles (yeah I lit Mulled Wine and Welcome Christmas... maybe jumping ahead of myself a little there :p). We also made our first pumpkin soup yesterday! I just love love love it! What are your favorite things about this season?

We finally had some wedding breakthrough's the last week! I was starting to think we were destined to not get married ha! We went to the Town Hall and gave our notice, I found some awesome bridesmaid dresses, saw a wedding dress I really like AND we think we have our photographer! This has definitely been the most stressful part so far. We have seen lots of photographers we like, but they were too expensive or booked up or only hung round for a few hours. Can you believe someone actually quoted me £22,000.00 for photography?! This didn't even include travel! Anyhoo, I will link up the photographer when the contract is signed as I don't want to jinx things ;). I'm glad I saw a dress I liked, i've been trying pretty hard to avoid this area and I still have no intentions to try something on any time soon - but it's a start! I change my mind far too often to start looking yet, knowing me I will find 'the one' straight away and then despise it next year! We started collecting blankets too, found the above beauties for £5 each at a vintage fair.

Hope you had a wonderful week, love