Pumpkin and butternut squash soup

Ingredients

• 1 cup chopped onion
• ½ cup chopped carrots
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• ½ tsp. of coriander
• 1/ tsp. of curry powder
• 4 - 6 cups chicken stock
• 4 cups pumpkin puree
• 4 cups of butternut squash
• Salt and pepper
• ½ cup of heavy whipping cream

Place onions, carrots, garlic, coriander and curry powder in a pan and slowly cook veg until soft. Add in pumpkin and butternut squash and chicken stock and then bring to the boil. I usually add in just 4 cups of stock but you may need more.

Allow soup to simmer for 30 minutes and then puree/liquidise soup using a food processor or hand blender. Add salt and pepper to taste then stir in cream and serve. (I don’t like soup too creamy but could add more J )

Pizza dough

Ingredients

• 2 cups of flour
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. sugar
• ¼ oz. packet of active dry yeast
• 1 cup warm water.

Mix the yeast with the water and set to one side. Place flour, olive oil, salt and sugar in a bowl and mix. I often also add herbs. For the flour I have used regular flour, bread flour, basically whatever I have. If I do use whole wheat flour I usually mix it half and half with white flour otherwise it is a really tough dough.

Add the yeast to the flour mixture and fold together to form a ball of dough. Cover it and let it rise for a half hour or so. You can let it rise over night too.

Cheese and onion sausage rolls

Ingredients

Pastry
8 oz of flour
4 oz of butter or suet, which ever you prefer for pastry.
water

Filling
1/2 onion, diced.
1 oz of butter
80z of grated cheese
40z of breadcrumbs
pinch of Mustard, salt and pepper.
1 egg
herbs and spice to taste (suggestions below)

blend the butter into the flour, then mix in a little water to form a dough. Let the pastry rest while you mix the filling.
Combine the ingredients in a bowl. If you wish you may cook of the onion before hand, but it is not necessary.
Half the pastry an roll out into an oblong. Cutting off excess.
place the filling along the middle an fold along sealing with water to form a tube.
cut into 3-4 inch sausage rolls.
Roll out and form the remainder of the sausage rolls.
egg wash and cover in sesame seeds for extra crunch.
Bake in an Oven at 375F for 20 minutes or until they are golden brown.


You could easily add some spinach or other veggies. You could add some Hummus in the mixture instead of the egg. A touch of curry powder, or cumin to spice things up.