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The season is changing here in Canada.  All the trees are turning different colours and the breeze is almost enough to get me running back indoors. It's my favourite time of year an the second time I've experienced it in the past six months.

During Autumn in Australia back in April and May, things were revving up, we had paid for our tickets, given our landlord notice, and packing and sorting, spending time carting boxes and furniture back and forth from Melbourne to Canberra and making the most of our veggie patch that we would soon be leaving behind.

All summer I had been nursing a pumpkin vine, replanting it after the dogs dug it up,  making sure it got watered at least every so often, and, even though we had a week of 40+ degrees when I thought I was going to loose everything had to string sheets across the tomato bushes to give them some shade and stop them from literally roasting right there in the garden, some how, one little pumpkin managed to survive.

So we celebrated by making a long anticipated pumpkin soup.  We used the same recipe that we always did, the only difference being that normally we would have a butternut from the farmers markets and our pumpkin from the backyard was a thick skinned greyish blue one. Turns out those ones don't make great soup.

Here in our new place in Vancouver we don't have a veggie garden, actually we don't have any garden yet cause we are living in an apartment and I haven't gotten around to getting some pots and stuff to stick out on our little bit of roof.

What we do have here are a whole heap strange new pumpkins (or squash for these crazy northern hemisphere types) to experiment with that I have never seen before.

That big orange one, I cut up into little pieces and roasted to put in a pasta dish which was mighty successful (so much so that we gobbled it up before I realised taking pictures would have been a good idea, my bad).  The long yellow one is a spaghetti squash which apparently is, well, kinda like spaghetti and so tomorrow I am going to hunt down a recipe and try my luck.  The last one I haven't figured out what to do with yet. Apparently it makes good sushi but the idea of pumpkin sushi doesn't do a whole lot for me. I guess with halloween coming up I could turn it into a lantern? Or is it the wrong sort? So much to learn!