Pumpkin Fun

Autumn has arrived the harvest time of year has just begun. Followed by boxes and boxes of apples, it's time to have fun with all the fresh pumpkins and squash!

There are so many ways to be creative with this beautiful colour, hard shell, and full of flavour veggies.

Here are some past recipes I tried to share with all of you.

Have fun curving, cooking, baking with your pumpkins!

Rissotto in Pumpkin dish casserole

Pumpkin Pie: Recipe

Double layer Pumpkin Cheesecake: Recipe

and the best I've tried this year... Pumpkin crème brûlée!!! (recipe)

It was a big hit on the Thanksgiving night this year, but unfortunately... I forgot to take a picture! But it's so good that I will soon make it another time so the pictures will be posted soon! Keep exploring!

Time to Paella!!

My first time to try out Paella because the difficulty on ingredients search.

One of the most important magic spice for Paella is Saffron. I searched entire grocery store and got lucky to meet the spice vendor who was just displayed the newly ordered spices. So I ordered Spanish Saffron from him but I should've asked the price first really. It's well known as the world's most expensive spice regarding the price per weight unit. A little bit of Saffron can cost 7-10 CAD. Although you may find the non-Spanish ones in Asian market or in a lot of Fusion recipes, they just use more turmeric instead.

The 2nd task is to find the right rice for it. Since I NEVER saw it in the grocery store, plus as a proud big rice-eater for over 30 years, I don't believe I need to order the special 'Paella' rice online to make it right.

Therefore, after viewing several Paella recipes online, I decide to give this a try with creativities and guts to substitute lots ingredients and alert the cooking time by 'sense'... um...must be a rice-eater thing ;)

I will have to make it again some time before posting a recipe but here are some pictures and reference website to share first in case some of you have been waiting for a homemade Paella for ages. :)

Enjoy~

Recipes online for reference