Showing posts with label Pumpkin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pumpkin. Show all posts

Wednesday, 30 October 2024

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Pumpkin Chocolate Almond Wholewheat Bread


1. 55g Olands wholewheat flour (25% of total flour weight)
2. 165g wheat flour
3. 1 tsp baking soda
4. 2 tsp cinnamon powder
5. 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
6. 1/2 tsp cardamon powder
7. A dash of salt
8. 2 eggs 
9. 30g sugar
10. 50g brown sugar (total 80g sugar 36% of total flour weight)
11. 340g pumpkin puree
12. 120g vegetable oil (I use sesame oil) (54% of total flour weight)
13. 30g orange juice
14. 50g chocolate chips
15. A handful of almonds unchopped 

Pumpkin Puree:

1. 1/2 Hokkaido or Crown Prince pumpkin seeds removed
2. 8 dried dates pitted
3. 30g skimmed fresh milk

Directions:

Pumpkin Puree:

1. Bake 1/2 pumpkin at 170 degree C for 30 minutes or until soft.
2. Add 30g fresh milk, 8 pitted date and blend in a food processor until creamy and set aside to cool down.

Pumpkin Bread:

1. In a mixing bowl, add 55g Olands wholewheat flour, 165g flour, 2 teaspoons cinnamon powder, 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder, 1/2 teaspoon cardamon powder, 1 teaspoon baking soda, a dash of salt and mix well.

2. In another mixing bowl, add 2 eggs, 30g sugar and 50g brown sugar and mix well. Add 340g pumpkin puree, 120g vegetable oil and 30g orange juice and mix well.

3. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and gently mix well.

4. Gently fold in the chocolate chips and almonds.

5. Grease a bread pan with oil on all side and the bottom.

6. Pour the bread mixture into the bread pan.

7. Bake at 175 degree C for an hour, checking for doneness by inserting a tooth pick after it has been baking for 55 mins. If the tooth pick comes out clean, it means the bread is done. Take it out of the oven.

8. Let the bread cool down first before cutting and serving.

Additional Information:

I am trying to find out what can I make with my pumpkin puree and found this wonderful recipe!!!

I used Crown Prince pumpkin to make the pumpkin puree. I reduced the sugar from 250g to 80g (37% of total flour weight). I substituted the original recipe plain flour with 25% of Olands wholewheat flour. I reduce the chocolate chips from 120g to 50g and used dark chocolate chips. I added almonds. I use neutral sesame oil for this batch and it turned out great. I omitted ginger powder and clove powder as I didn't have them. Daddy FECS and C really liked it. We made this for Halloween tomorrow. We don't celebrate Halloween, but will be having family fun time instead.

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Monday, 7 October 2024

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Pumpkin Picking

 

6 October 2024: C (8Y4M20D)

This was our first time picking our own pumpkins. We were very excited. The plantation is in Greve, south-west of Copenhagen, about 30 mins drive from our place. The weather today was fantastic with sunshine and quite warm, very unlike October in Denmark. It was so beautiful, almost fairy-tale like to see a field full of orange "Cinderella-like" pumpkins!!! Baby FECS was very strong, she went around carrying XL size pumpkins. It cost 35 DKK per pumpkin. We plucked three, the last one was very small, and they charged us 10 DKK instead.

We also picked apples and pears at the same plantation today at 20 DKK per kg. We picked 9 kg of apples and pears.

We will probably repeat this activity next week.

Below are the contact details:

Address:
Kildebrønde Frugtplantage
Kildebrønde Landevej 41, 
2670 Greve
Tel: 4361 0910
Email: post@kildebronde-frugt.dk

Opening hours: Friday to Sunday 10 am - 5 pm











Harvesting pumpkin :-)










Saturday, 30 October 2021

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How to Deal with Halloween as Christians?

 

This year our Little FECS and our Baby FECS chose to make a pumpkin house instead of a smiley face pumpkin.

As the evening winded down, our lonely pumpkin house grew more and more surrounded and a little too busy 🤣

Baby FECS added the rose petals bed.

Daddy FECS added the windmill - his love and pride ❤️ 

The only prop missing perhaps was Cinderella and the horse to turn it into a pumpkin carriage 😂 Well, maybe next year… for now Cinderella can make do with the yellow school bus added by our Little FECS 😁

We wanted to honor God and don’t want to celebrate scary things. So this is just our way of going against the cultural norm and still making it a little fun for our kids 😊

May the warmth, love, joy and peace of God fill your home today 🙂

Here are some of my posts on how we deal with Halloween:














Sunday, 18 December 2016

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Baby Food of the Day: Pumpkin, French Beans, Egg Yolk & Quinoa (7M3D)




18 December 2016 (7M3D): For lunch, I served 1 cube of pumpkin puree, egg yolk, quinoa porridge with egg yolk cooked with added a bit of breast milk and 1 cube of french beans. Daddy FECS helped to feed Baby FECS. She finished everything :-)

Monday, 27 October 2014

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White Bean & Sausage Soup Stew in Pumpkin

A simpler recipe adapted from Martha Stewart's White Bean and Sausage Stew in Pumpkin Bowl
Serves 4

Preparation & Cooking Time: 2.5 hours

Ingredients:
1. 1 Hokkaido pumpkin
2. 1/2 TBS olive oil
3. 1/4 cup white beans
4. 1 large onion chopped
5. 1 bay leave
6. 1 cup water or chicken stock
7. 3-4 sausages
8. 2 TBS cooking oil
9. 1 clove garlic minced
10. 1 leek - white portion sliced thinly crosswise
11. 1 large carrots chopped crosswise and halfed
12. 1 celery chopped crosswise
13. 1 large potato cut into bite-sized cubes
14. 1 handful of oyster mushrooms sliced
15. 1/4 cup frozen peas
16. 1 cup fresh milk (3.5% fat)
17. 1/8 cup flour
18. 1 TBS cream (9% fat - kaffefløde) (optional)
19. Salt & pepper to taste

Directions:
1. Cook white beans with water or chicken stock, bay leave and onion. I cook using the pressure-cooker for 15 minutes when it reaches steam.

2. Pre-heat oven to 170 degree celsius.

3. Cut out top of pumpkin with a hole big enough to ladle soup into it. Remove pulp.

4. Rub inside of the pumpkin with olive oil, salt and pepper.

5. Place the pumpkin and its top on an oven-proof dish and bake for 25 minutes. Remove top and set aside.

6. Turn the pumpkin bowl up-side-down and bake for another 25 minutes. Set aside to cool down.

7. Heat wok with 1/2 TBS cooking oil and fry sausages 3-4 minutes on each side on moderate heat. Cut into bite-size and set aside.

8. Heat wok with 11/2 TBS cooking oil and fry garlic until golden on high heat.

9. Add carrots and celery fry until golden.

10. Add leeks and saute under moderate heat (no. 7.5 on my stove).

11. Add in mushroom and fry until fragrant.

12. Add potatoes, sausages and white beans including the liquid from cooking the white beans and simmer until moderate heat until the potatoes are cooked.

13. Add flour, stir and mix well.

14. Reduce heat to medium (no. 4.5 on my stove), add milk and simmer for 15 minutes until the stew is thick.

15. Add frozen green peas and stir for 1 minute.

16. Ladle stew into pumpkin bowl and bake for 10 minutes until stew is absorbed into the pumpkin bowl. (You will still have half of the portion remaining in the pot, which can be refilled into the púmpkin bowl).

17. Garnish with pumpkin top and serve.

Tips:
Serve with stone age bread cut into bite-size and toasted in the oven.

Additional Information:
Our love affair with pumpkin continues... Just love pumpkins - they are so cute and so tasty. I made this dish together with J for dinner this evening. J was very excited and he helped me to peel the potato. J and Daddy liked this soup stew. I will make it again. You can do completely away with the cream, and it will still taste good.

References:
http://www.marthastewart.com/338277/white-bean-and-sausage-stew-in-pumpkin-b







The top is now eaten, tasted caramel and very sweet.

Left-over, all combined with pumpkin and the stew gets and orange color
 
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