Anna Rubingh - Autumn Glory

Autumn Glory

Photography + recipes: © Anna Rubingh

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When the autumn slowly changes nature's colours, we enjoy the last warm sunlight while building a fire to extend our time spend outside. And cooking warm and colourful dishes to suit the changing season.

On beautiful, sunny days, we cook outside over an open fire, roasting whole pumpkins in hot coals on the edges, serving them simple, with a generous knob of butter and some flaky sea salt. And we roast the chestnuts that have just fallen from the tree while slowly cooking beef stew with root veg, serving it with some of our roasted chestnust sprinkled on top. And because we cook a generous amout of stew, the next day we have an easy, but delicious meal of leftover beef stew with tagliatelle. As a side dish, a radicchio salad, straight from the garden with blue cheese and some of our roasted chestnuts.

On long walks in autumn nature, we bring a flask with hot homemade roasted pumpkin soup and when we get home we have coffee with apple and almond pie. On colder days spend inside there is comforting mac, celeriac and blue cheese with roasted hazelnuts and thyme, bubbling hot from the oven. And Saturdays are for soup, our own version of Italian ribolitta with cavolo nero, borlotti beans and bruschetta.

Wonderful, comforting autumn days!