Sally Mara Art

WEATHER REPORT

from

all over
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PUMPKIN

This year's crop of pumpkin paintings began when fish customer and Klara's owner commissioned a painting for her and her husband's twentieth wedding anniversary.
It's only fitting that they are pumpkin lovers, having gotten married on Halloween.....in costume

Here are a few

In the Window September 2014  Watercolor

September 2014

and another with Klara and Martini

Pumpkins have always been a favorite painting/drawing subject of mine

a previous crop

"Night Pumpkin" colored pencil drawing

going way back to pre Henry and Violet, when I had Pancho the cat and lived in Manhattan

mini crop of Jack- be- littles

RECIPES
for
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*frosty nights*
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  Pumpkin  
S O U P E
from  
Catou's

   french   

kitchen

Chez Catou, Biarritz France

Place small cubes of peeled pumpkin in a thick bottomed pot
Let it cook in its own steam covered for three minutes
Add a teaspoon of sweet butter per cup of pumpkin, good coarse salt, pepper
and a touch of nutmeg ( optional)
Cook until totally soft
 whip in the blender until smooth and fluffy
Et voilà

simple et délicieuse 

PUMPKIN
Stew 
at the 
FARM

Roast four small pie pumpkins until soft
peel and scoop out the flesh

saute three to four large shallots and garlic cloves in olive oil and butter
add two to three chopped red peppers, and one spicy anaheim
separately saute mildly spicy turkey sausage until brown
Add to the pumpkin mash
add a cup or so of water or chicken stock, salt and pepper to taste and simmer together
less simple and delicious!
Eat in front of a roaring fire
and listen to the crazy coyotes partying outside in the night
(click here to hear them howl!)

And if you missed the opening of my painting show,

come to the closing this 

SUNDAY

November 9th

3-7pm

95 Fenimore St

Brooklyn, NY

POT LUCK PARTY AND BIG SALE