Autumnal bake off

Good morning , good evening , good greetings to you all where ever you are in this world. Thanks so much for reading and commenting on my posts, I truly get a smile on my face each time I see a new comment and make a new friend in the 'blogosphere' (this is what Mr.A calls it when he sees me smiling and giggling to myself whilst entranced by the lap top!)

Currently, I am rather B.U.S.Y to say the least and work and mummy commitments are full on at the moment, which doesn't make me unhappy just a little impatient to have ME time to hook and knit and bake and grow and sew and read and write letters and and and .... the list could be endless I kid you not. So, I am about and am getting a buzz from the your lovely journals in the blogosphere when a spare moment arrives.

I thought I would make this post short and sweet and tell you about my Autumnal Bake Off here in our little home over the weekend. I made my very first pie ever! I cheated though and bought the puff pastry but I found a lovely scrummy recipe in my favourite vegetarian cookbook by Rose Elliot (my vegetarian goddess) who uses everyday ingredients to help you make super scrummy munchy stuff like this baby...

Now, I am not the world's best cook, but I do try and for a first attempt in my 40 years I think I did OK (I need a pie dish, this was baked in a cake tin... is that sacrilege in the cooking world ?)

My family enjoyed it with some crunchy steamed broccoli and inside this meagre little pie were a few of these ...

Leeks, oh the joy of leeks such a winter veg in the UK, as a South African living here for the past 15 years I have come to pay homage to this vegetable which was never part of my diet in tropical Durban where I grew up and simply love them. Rose Elliot's recipes are dead simple and always taste sooo good. I often look at what I have in the way of veg and 99% of the time I can guarantee I will find an easy and delicious recipe to follow.

Our meal was followed by another heavy yummy autumnal sensory delight made from these...

My raspberries were frozen from a month ago when we picked our own (I love just eating frozen raspberries with a little plain yoghurt, simple but oh so nice)

and the end product was... you guessed it Apple and Raspberry crumble

 Topped with soya dream (cream) mmmmm....

Ahhh that's better, thanks for stopping by , watch this space for my funky ? tea cosy coming soon , have a beautiful week lovely people xox