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Yet another Refail soup recipe - just had this for lunch today - brilliant!

A bit of a luxury this, but perfect for a cold and misty winter's day.
The pumpkin should be Crown Prince or similar with solid orange flesh.

350-400 gr pumpkin (peeled weight) chopped
1 small onion or 2 shallots
½ litre vegetable or chicken stock
100 gr peeled brown shrimps
25 gr butter and a little olive oil
nutmeg
salt
pepper


Sweat chopped vegetables until soft but not coloured
Season with nutmeg and pour in the stock
Simmer for 20 minutes then blend
Add shrimps and season to taste

Hi Alan, having just posted the other squash recipe, I then noticed yours. My wife's a veggie so I don't normally bother cooking much non veggie stuff at home. However she's away next week, so your suggestion will definitely get tried out!

I have a surplus of squash from last Autumn - evenly divided between Marina di chioggia, Crown Prince and Butternut. However a few have already gone mouldy so I think I need to get on and make stuff with the remainder (even if most of it only goes straight into the freezer).

Obviously your squash are home grown - did the prawns come from a Welsh port?

Colin_M wrote:
Obviously your squash are home grown - did the prawns come from a Welsh port?

Crown Prince grown here - shrimp from Netherlands

Never mind.

Back in the 1990's we once cooked a lovely meal of mussels (the bag said they came from somewhere near Angelsea).

Later than evening, we saw a news item about how radioactive pollution from Sellafield was washing across the Irish sea to Dublin and started to think about the filter feeding animals in our supper .

Well that was 20 years ago and we seem to have survived so far

Morning Colin

Sadly not much fishing is done in North Wales any longer. One industry which continues is mussel dredging. The mussels you had those years ago would have been "Myti Mussels" from Porth Penrhyn on Menai strait between Bangor and Anglesey. The picture is their newest boat m.v. Valente