The pumpkin is a magical vegetable. You can prepare fantastic Halloween decorations with it, but there are unlimited cooking uses for it as well. You can bake, boil or fry it. You can prepare cakes, crumpets, soups and stews. The diversity of dishes depends only on your imagination.

And even though it isn't Halloween today, on my table there is pumpkin soup. It is the easiest pumpkin dish I know. You should use it for your first attempt at cooking pumpkins. The beautiful colour of the soup should be considered as the promise of a creamy and very autumnal taste. The soup is delicately sweet, but you can prepare a more piquant version by adding chili pepper.

Ingredients:

2 kg of pumpkin

100ml of coconut milk

1 onion

2 cloves of garlic

We have had millet groats on our table for quite some time. We all like it, each of us in their own way. The product is tasty, light and filling and is especially recommended for breakfast. It could be a side dish or a surprising ingredient of desserts.

Today I would like to propose another way to use millet groats - fluffy and exquisite cutlets with chickpeas. You can make them a little spicier by adding minced chili pepper. My children and I prefer the light version.

Ingredients:

120g of millet groats

300ml of water

a pinch of salt

half of teaspoon of butter

If he can, my husband tries to avoid meat. His diet is dominated by groats, vegetables, fruit, eggs and fish. At the weekend I sometimes try to prepare a dish for everyone so as to avoid preparing two dinners.

September is the time when on market stands tomatoes, peppers, courgettes and other autumn gifts strut with colour. This time I choose peppers. Today I would like to share with you a recipe for stuffed peppers with green lentils. It is easy to prepare, not very time-consuming and it doesn't require sophisticated ingredients.

Ingredients:

350g of green lentils

4 peppers

1 onion

- Mum, I had such a beautiful dream ... - my young man murmured in the sunny summer morning – I dreamed that you made crepes like the ones I like with cheese and chocolate sauce...

You have to be careful about your dreams, because dreams can sometimes come true, so I made the crepes for dinner. I don't like crepes with sweet fillings. I used to make crepes with a different filling for myself. My children like them most with sweet cheese and chocolate sauce. In the summer I sneak in seasonal fruits: huckleberries, strawberries or sliced peaches. Crepes like this are a classical dish so today here is a recipe for somebody who has just begun their cooking adventure.

Ingredients:

dough for 12 crepes (pan 20cm):

300ml of milk

300ml of sparkling water

100ml of oil

1 egg

8 heaped tablespoons of flour

pinch of salt

I found the recipe for this soup in an old cookery book. It interested me because of the extremely short preparation time. Actually, it seems that preparing the ingredients takes more time than cooking. The soup is perfect on a difficult day when, regardless of your best intentions, you don't have enough time to cook.

Ingredients:

120g of courgettes

100g of carrots

50g of parsley roots

½ onion

1 clove of garlic

100g of butter

1 vegetable stock cube

500 ml of water

200ml of milk

salt and pepper

2 tablespoons of minced dill