Time to get festive

This has to be one of my favourite times of year. We've dressed up as skeletons, super heroes, scooby doo characters and dug out our winter woollies. We've had the full range of autumn weather, autumn colours, Halloween treats, bonfires and fireworks and I've loved it all.

It's also been a week of full on cooking and baking, using up all the seasonal treats in our fruit and veg box from Pestle & Mortar and raiding the garden for the last of the home grown goodies and festive treats. We've had Halloween cookies, pumpkin and blue cheese risotto, Aubergine parmigiana, filled the store cupboard with apple jelly with chilli and rosemary & mint, feasted on banana cake, roast beef & yorkshire puddings and apple sponge. The cupboard is now full of mincemeat and the Christmas cake is in the tin. In short the house smells delicious and our tummies are full to bursting.

This weekend's baking experimentation was, however, the best bit of all. Bagels, bagels, bagels. I've loved them forever but I've never made them before and I really don't know why because they are amazing. Chewy, soft, squishy and fun. They are the best reason I've found so far to get out of bed early on a Sunday morning and get baking. Here's some pics of the bagelicious feast in action.