Happy Halloween!

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I know it was last week that was Halloween but I’ve only just got around to writing this. The night before we had a lovely evening cooking outside on the fire and hollowing our my pumpkin.

We made this stew with dumplings and a beer gravy inside before lighting the fire
Then took it outside with us and I sat and hollowed out the pumpkin while it was cooking
Not a huge Jeff (pumpkin) this year but we still made him have a good face none the less.
I took him to work with me for our first pumpkin carving competition and he won! I was very pleased with that and the chocolates are still going strong around my team at work.
Dinner also turned out really tasty too. Although slightly too beer-y this one. The one we did before with the wine in was better. I hadn’t really had dumplings much before not being a hugely stew-y person but they were good too.

On Halloween itself, I got back from work (with the prize winning Jeff!) to find my hubby decorating the house and garden ready for the trick-or-treaters. There were glow sticks all around the fence, transfers on the door and of course a special place for Jeff too. It looked pretty good, especially when it had got dark.
We had a good evening with plenty of kids coming to visit for the sweets we had got. Happy Halloween all!

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