bigfoodiemama

The weather is responsible for an awful lot. Thanks to the dry hot spell in June followed by the recent torrential downpours and humidity, our vegetable garden has taken off. This evening the eldest son wanted to stroll outside to have a look at the veg, so off we went barefoot and found gorgeous fattening pods, full of petite delicious green peas. Every time I turned around eldest son had knicked another one, but I must admit I sampled a few ,myself, Dad tried some and gave our two toothed youngest son one..it took him a while but he managed to mush it up with a green grin. Even more exciting was when I pulled back the vast expanse of pumpkin plant to find our first baby pumpkin...ok so it is the size of a cherry tomato but it's a start. Eldest son advised me that "the chinese" cut eyes and mouths in theirs and put candles in and what were we going to do ? I came up with pumpkin pie, but all he wanted to know was what colour it would be when it was finished. Once I said ...