Next to the chicken run Jean planted a bed of courgettes, squash, and pumpkins. The courgettes did moderately well, but in any case you rapidly tire of even a modest harvest of courgettes. The Festival squash did brilliantly, and we’ve discovered that roast squash is a delight.
Which leaves the pumpkins. Two decent sized Halloween pumpkins, plus one smaller one, which have now ripened to a lovely orange colour. But what to do with them? We have a very nice recipe for pumpkin and goats cheese, which I’ve written about before, but what else? I decided to try making pumpkin marmalade.
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