Spice Pumpkin Soup, Halloween, Dinners, Luncheon, Sultana Bread

Hi there, just returned from delivering soup so thought I?d better do my blog before it gets to Tuesday! Well we have delivered our 100 portions of soup every day last week and it seems to have gone down very well. We haven?t run out of flavours yet either. We are delivering 120 portions every day this week, with us delivering Pumpkin soup on Friday as it?s Halloween the day after. We did the Sea Cadets Battle of Trafalgar dinner on Saturday night and the young cadets who helped out with the waiting on really showed what the sea cadets are all about. This week brings us a dinner, two luncheons and of course our daily soup trip
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We are going to do something to raise some cash for Children in need this year, if anyone has any suggestions as to what they might like to see us do (clean and legal suggestions only please) then please do let us know. I?m sure it will involve food, probably music and almost definitely?us looking a bit daft!

November is looking like a busy month with dinners, luncheons, 40th birthday parties and children?s party all coming up. December is getting rather full so if you need anything catering in December get it booked now as there are not many free dates left.

This weeks recipe has to be pumpkin related as it?s Halloween and one of my favourite recipes is spiced pumpkin soup. You can scoop all the insides out and use it for soup then use the shells for making pumpkin faces. Please send any pictures of your sculptures that you have and we can post them on our Facebook page.



Spiced pumpkin soup

Serves 3-4 people

Ingredients
? red onion chopped
Drizzle of olive oil
1 clove of garlic
450g diced pumpkin
2 tsp Mr Hudas Universal paste
1 tin of coconut milk
200ml water
2 tbsp maple syrup

Method
In a pan big enough to take all the ingredients soften the onion in a little oil.
Add all the other ingredients and simmer for 35 mins, blitz with either a hand blender or in a food processor, and serve with sultana bread or home made crusty bread.

Thanks for reading, have a great week.