Pumpkin/squash curry recipe

Xandra, one of our veg share members has sent me this recipe for this delicious sounding curry - she thought you might find it useful if you want some ideas for using squash, especially as there will be squash in the share this week!

Thanks Xandra!

Pumpkin/squash curry recipe

Ingredients:

onion - chopped
garlic.ginger} fresh or frozen
chillies frozen or fresh
tomato 1or 2 chopped
squash or pumpkin chopped into chunks
chickpeas
spinach
salt
garam masala 1 teaspoon
cumin seeds or powder 1 teaspoon
turmeric 1/4 - 1/2 teaspoon


Method
Fry the chopped onion in a little olive oil and little butter until
onion starts to brown. Add garlic and ginger and chillies. Add cumin
seeds. Add tomatoes. Add the dry spices - if the mixture is dry and
sticking add a tiny amount of water. You should have a sort of pasty
mixture. Add squash and let it cook for a few minutes. Add chickpeas
and spinach and cook until squash is tender. Don't add any more water
as there will be plenty from the spinach. If you want the dish to be
dry cook without a lid as the lid will just keep in the water from the
spinach.

Nicole Foss: 'We Need Freedom of Action To Confront Peak Oil' from You Tube

Hi folks,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvoFJsqF1wQ&feature=related (Please copy and paste to see this as I can't get an HTML link to show up. Ali)

I wanted to forward this link to you all, because what Nicole has been speaking about for several years now is -

1) So pertinent to what Canalside is doing.

And -

2) So clear-seeing about the reasons why the team who now have Canalside airborne, and are flying it higher as fast as they can go, are doing exactly the right thing. When you're slogging grimly through the winter mud and cold, and wondering why you're breaking your back for little pay, you need to be reassured as much as ever possible that this is precisely the right thing to be doing, to prepare as well as maybe for the unprecedented upheavals and crises which are already happening, and which, assuredly, will get much fiercer over this next decade. This is, quite literally, a matter of life and death for many people just a little way down the line; like it was in Soviet Russia after 1989.

May I asks whoever first fields this email to tell and show it around the Leasowe Farm people -- and of course all the sharers who want to see it -- as much as you can. Thanks.

Rhisiart Gwilym (Canalside veg share member)

Squash tips

I froze some chopped up Crown Prince squash raw (my own garden one actually). Opinion on the internet was divided about whether it would work or not, or whether it should be cooked before freezing. I roasted it from frozen and it was fine. Thought it might be useful for some of the members to know.

Also, very impressed with the quality of the celeriac and swedes. Where can you get an English organic celeriac as late as this and how on earth much would it cost?
Judy

Part-time grower post at Canalside

Still time to get an application in! The deadline is on Friday 11th February.

Details on earlier post:
http://canalsidecommunityfood.blogspot.com/2011/01/job-opportunity-at-canalside-for-part.html
Please email Ali on mail@canalsidecommunityfood.org.uk for full job description, or to send CV and covering letter.

TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM - DANCE NEWS

Keep an eye on our new website, check out your favourite event and then have a little look round the rest of the site to see what else is going on.

Barn Dance with Cuckoos Nest and caller Jo Freya
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Sat 26 March, All Saints Church Hall, Vicarage Road Birmingham B14 7RA
Doors open at 7:30, dancing starts at 8pm
Food and light refreshments available but unlicensed, so bring your own alcohol.
Tickets £7 (children £3.50) from 0121 246 9873
More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=160

Newfoundland Dance Tunes workshop
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And for the musicians among you, here's advance notice of an afternoon workshop on 10 April at mac, Birmingham. As a part of their Shore to Shore tour, Fergus O'Byrne and Jim Paynes will lead musicians in the playing of Newfoundland dance tunes and the steps that go with them. We're organising this event with Wren Music and mac. Tickets are £12, and there's more info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=161

TRADITIONAL ARTS TEAM - MUSIC NEWS, FEBRUARY 2011

Keep an eye on our new website, check out your favourite event and then have a little look round the rest of the site to see what else is going on.

Moseley Village Band has its February meetings on Thursday 10th and Thursday 24th from 7:30 to 9:15pm at St Columba's Church Hall, Alcester Road, Moseley. If you play an instrument, particularly a bass line instrument (tuba, trombone, bass clarinet, cello, double bass), why not come along and give it a try? More info and photos at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/Moseley-Village-Band.html

There will be a traditional music session on Sunday 21 January at the Prince of Wales pub in Moseley. All musicians are welcome to come along and share a few tunes. More info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/music-sessions.html

And here's advance notice of an afternoon workshop on 10 April at mac, Birmingham. As a part of their Shore to Shore tour, Fergus O'Byrne and Jim Paynes will lead musicians in the playing of Newfoundland dance tunes and the steps that go with them. We're organising this event with Wren Music and mac. Tickets are £12, and there's more info at www.tradartsteam.co.uk/calendar.html?a=viewevent&id=161