Orangeflavoured pumpkin soup with champignons

Hello there! It's truly been a while, a very long one, but here I am, back again, with a new recipe perfectly for autumn days crying for a hot soup.


I made a pumpkin cake for Halloween and had some leftover pumpkin, and oranges and champignons... Yeah and that's the whole story. 

What you need for 2-3 servings: 
200-300 g pumpkin (I used Hokkaido, cause it's the easiest, since you don't have to peel it) 
300 g champigons 
the juice and some grated peel of 1/2 orange 
100-200 ml milk 
spices: salt, pepper, ginger, garlic, nutmeg, chili (put as much in as you like) grated cheese 

 optional: 1 potato, 1 small carrot 

 Cut the pumpkin (optional potato + carrot) and boil it with some salted water until softened. While your pumpkin is boiling, cut the champignons and fry them with a little oil and spices (salt, pepper, garlic). 
Set them aside. 
Add the orange peel to the pumpkin, then use a hand-held blender to mash everything. 
Add some milk to make the soup more creamy and heat it until it boils again. 
Put the champignons in and then add spices and the orange juice until the soup meets your taste. 

Serve it with some grated cheese on top. 

 I hope you like it. For me it was the perfect meal after halloween. 

See you guys and take care. ^^
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Autumn Candle Glass

Want to catch some cozy autumn feeling in a glass?

I have found this great idea on some crafting blog. Sadly I lost the link when my old laptop crashed and I couldn't find it again.

So today I took a walk through the beautiful autumn forests and collected some coloured leaves.

I really love those on the left because they are bi-coloured. Also, I noticed that you get the most beauitfully coloured leaves from very young trees.

Well then I took them home, washed and dried them, and started crafting.

 I thought I could simply attach them to the glass with mod podge, but the surfaces really didn't work well together. Too smooth.

 So first I applied a whole layer of mod podge to the glass and the leaves I wanted to use and let them dry. Then I applied another thin layer on the leaves and attached them to the glass, holding a hairdryer in my mouth, directed at the leaf, while I pressed it onto the glass with both hands. Must have looked hilarious.

It really was a rather tricky procedure. But I love the result.

 I applied like two thick layers of the mod podge on top and probably will apply another one tomorrow. I just want to make sure everything it absolutely airtight and I hope this will prevent the colours from fading and the leaves from drying.

The glass on a mirror.

I think the yellow and red also make for a nice Christmas decoration.
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