Winter Squash and Spinach Stew, Garden to Table

A winter, warming stew, sweet and full of flavour. The first half of the video is in my small garden and conservatory, gathering ingredients.
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00:00 Introduction, and I show you the variety of squash I’m going to be using for the recipe - Ute
00:55 Another ingredient - carrots, Flakee variety, some with root fly damage
03:16 Harvesting a third ingredient, spinach - Medania variety
04:15 And a fourth - bay leaves
05:29 Harvests already in the shed, including tomatoes, then picking thyme
06:30 In the conservatory, and stores of onions, garlic and squash
08:27 Showing the recipe in the book, and alternative ingredients that can be used
09:03 In the kitchen making the soup - how I skin and cut the squash
11:18 About saving squash seed
12:11 I continue cooking, peeling the squash - the peel can be eaten, I roasted it later with oil
15:23 Adding chilli salt from ‪@SpicyMoustache‬how hot is it?!
16:46 Tasting the stew, the different taste of Ute compared to Crown Prince

The cookbook and No Dig are available from my website: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product-...

For detailed info on growing squash, spinach and carrots, see my 'From Seed to Harvest' lessons: https://charlesdowding.co.uk/product-...

Filmed and edited at Homeacres by Nicola Smith, 23rd November 2022

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