Food & Drink

It is easy to end up with an awful lot of pumpkin at this time of year. If you have done ‘soup’ and ‘pie’ so many times you are in need of a change then this is a great option. It is a surprisingly wonderful moist cake bread which is best served thickly sliced and buttered with a cup of tea. It is also great for lunchboxes.

• 175g butter, melted • 140g clear honey • 1 large egg, beaten • 250g raw peeled pumpkin, or butternut squash, coarsely grated (about 500g/1lb 2oz before peeling and seeding) • 1 grated English apple • 100g light muscovado sugar • 350g self-raising flour • 1 tbsp ground cinnamon (or ginger) • 2 tbsp Demerara sugar

Preheat the oven to 1800C/gas 4/fan 1600C. Butter and line the base and two long sides of a 1.5kg loaf tin with a strip of baking paper. Mix the butter, honey and egg and stir in the grated apple and the pumpkin or squash. Finally mix in the sugar, flour and cinnamon. Pour into the prepared tin and sprinkle the top with the Demerara sugar. Bake for 50-60 minutes, until risen and golden brown. Leave in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and cool on a wire rack. Serve thickly sliced and buttered. Enjoy!

Fruit, Nuts & Fungi - Apples, blackberries, chestnuts, elderberries, figs, grapes, pears, quince, tomatoes, walnuts. Lots of lovely mushrooms; chanterelles, chestnuts, horse mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, parasol mushrooms, puffballs, giant shaggy ink caps and summer truffles Vegetables & Herbs - Beetroot, borlotti beans, broccoli, cabbages, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, chard, courgettes, fennel, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, peppers, potatoes, pumpkins & squash, rocket, salsify, scorzonera, spinach, turnips Meat & Game - Duck, wild goose, grouse, guinea fowl, hare, mallard, partridge, pheasant, rabbit, venison, wood pigeon Fish & Shellfish - Cod, crab, eels, lobster, mackerel, mussels, oysters, prawns, scallops, sea bass, sprats, squid, brown and rainbow trout Going out of season - Aubergine, beetroot, butternut squash, chicory, cobnut, damsons, elderberries, fennel, fig, globe artichoke, lamb, mackerel, pear, plums, radish, raspberry, rocket, sweetcorn, watercress

A big welcome to Emma Paterson who joined SE Magazines last month. Emma is my very first employee and I am delighted to have her support. Emma’s role is Head of Getting Stuff Done!

Hi, I’m Emma and I joined Angela at SE Magazines on 6th September. You may notice there is a similarity in our picture and you would be correct – I am in fact her little sister! I am married, and a mum to two boys, Harry and Charlie. I used to live in East Dulwich many years ago so I know the area! Now I’m not too far away so can still enjoy the delights it has to offer. My background is a mixture of customer focused roles within financial institutions, pension providers and publishing. I hope to have contact with some of you over the coming months and look forward to working with Angela to help continue producing fantastic community magazines!

Emma Paterson (pictured right) with SE Mags Editor Angela Burgess