autumn weekends
last weekend we met up with our friend katherine to hang out in chorlton where her new apartment is. she took us to some cute shops, a candy store where we bought tons of liquorice, a vegan grocery store called unicorn, and a great pub called pi (with great pies, of course). the weather was nice enough for us to enjoy being outside, and the nice staff at pi offered to warm up and serve wendy some food from the unicorn grocery (since the menu, like most, wasn’t too wendy-friendly).
wendy was super excited when in the grocery store katherine reminded her, “you can eat anything in here!” sounds kinda stupid, but it was a great feeling to see all the options and not feel so limited by being a lactose-intolerant vegetarian.
see the excitement?
after choosing some savoury wendy pies, we went back to order at the pub. all three of us were so excited to see them serving pumpkin beer!
it was of course an american brand, so much for sampling local beers… but it was so good! saranac pumpkin beer- highly recommended.
zeke had a delicious meaty pie and wendy enjoyed the mushy peas. above, we are posing with the pumpkin we bought at the grocery that was finally cooked this weekend. finding pumpkins to cook is a bit more difficult here in england, and canned pumpkin is nowhere to be found, so we were quite excited. we had a really great autumny saturday with katherine.
then after another busy week and a fun camp reunion day on saturday (yesterday) we decided to have a really relaxing sunday. we slept in and then made proper american blueberry pancakes that were delicious! (we have to specify that they are “american” pancakes because british pancakes are more like crepes- which has previously led to some disappointing misunderstandings at restaurants…)
then wendy used the pumpkin we bought in chorlton to make pumpkin bread! (the recipe is a lot like my family’s favourite apple cake)
zeke is excited to watch tim tebow’s first start for the broncos whilst enjoying it. but in the meantime he loved cleaning up the batter:
