Sandal Wearing, Yoghurt Weaving and Carrot Hummus.

So this bank holiday weekend I became one of those hummus making, allotment owning, Guardian reading lefties.  It shouldn't have come as too much as a surprise I had the allotment owning and Guardian reading under the belt already but then I went and purchased this little beauty (yeah I pimped the photo, I wanted it to look it's beautiful best), I think I might call her Betty....

So  what to make with Betty first?  Well  reflecting upon my new lefty lifestyle it seemed wrong to do anything else but a River Cottage carrot hummus receipe, hazaar!We totes own a pestle and mortar, MozzyMr is very keen to master curries and mashes up all sorts of seeds and spices (om nom nom).  These little beauties released a lovely zesty smell and grinding them up to put in the hummus made me feel like a GROWN UP!

Yum bags roasted carrots with garlic, cumin seeds, coriander seeds, olive oil, salt and pepper. 

And finally the carrot hummus!  Yeah, yeah it looks like baby sick, but it really, really is delicious and will be my packed lunch tomorrow with lots of raw pepper and celery, which bearing in mind I've got the post bank holiday blues it's a good to have a nice lunch to look forward to :)

How was your Easter bank holiday weekend?

Micro Harvest Festival

Yep, we got pumpkins.  Got so many of them we have one each to carve, two each to eat, and another three on the way, the kitchen looks like a micro harvest festival.  Thankfully my lovely friend Kathy Swan gave me the River Cottage Veg Everyday recipe book for my Birthday so I can't wait to tackle some of the dishes. 

The last of the sunflowers we grew for our wedding have flowered and gone to seed, we had one large trug full of seeds, many went to friends and family and the rest have been feeding the birds.  I'm all about getting animals to our allotment that eat slugs and snails, as much as I don't like frogs I don't like slugs more so was happy when Laura (who we share a plot with) lifted the rhubarb and discovered Brian:

Cue Marsha from Spaced style "Hello Brian" every time he ventures out.