Before winter comes

It was cooked as cream stew. But hued yellow. The pumpkin, one of the materials, was melted in the soup and was making it colored like this.

The other materials were potatoes and carrots, which were all home grown. There are a lot of pumpkins left in the pantry. I should have grown less considering of its span after harvest. Or I should give more of them to friends. My wife told me to be more discreet to do so. They could reply to it with some gift. I thought those pumpkins would have been welcomed by some of them. I still followed the words of wisdom by my wife.

Anyway, this stew was a success. Before pumpkins get useless, I would try it again. 

The main dish was chicken seasoned with tomato ketchup. Italian parsely was scattered on it. Pretty good. My wife used to cook chicken stewed with tomato when we were young. This tasted the same and brought me back those days when we started honeymoon life at a small resident dormitory. We have had a few friends at our home for dinner. It was one of the routine menu then.

I would plant onion seedlings very soon. Dozens of them. They will be ripened by next spring. Dried onions will last for several months and will be used for various dishes. Together with onion seedlings, spinach, cabbage, chinese cabbage, broccoli and some leaf vegetables are growing right now. After planting onion, my little farm will go into hibernation.