Pumpkin Soup and Macaroon Balls

Had a bit of a cooking day today:

Easy Pumpkin Soup: 

1. Cut up a 1/4 Jap Pumpkin into small cubes, toss with 1tsp olive oil, salt, pepper and some curry powder and lay it flat and put it in the oven on 200 degrees celcius for 45 minutes

2. Sautee a small onion with 1tsp curry powder (or more), 1/4 tsp chili powder and 1/2 tsp cinnamon

3. When pumpkin is done, put it with the onion and add 1 cup chicken stock and 1 cup veggie stock or 2 cups chicken/veggie stock. Then put enough hot water to cover the vegetables if needed.

4. Simmer for 10 minutes and then blend for a few minutes leaving some pumpkin so it's more chunky. Season with salt and pepper

This was really nice and quite filling

This is the pumpkin (roasted) and the onion and spices are down the bottom.

Finished:

Chocolate Chip Macaroon Balls

1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius

2. Mix vanilla extract with 1 egg white until combined but dont overwisk.

3. Combine 1 cup dessicated coconut (I used shredded), 1/8 cup caster sugar, 1/2tsp vanilla extract and 1/4 cup chocolate chips. If you don't have chocolate chips, it would still work.

4. Scoop into 1 tablespoon balls (makes about 8 large ones) and put it in the oven for 10 minutes. Done

It is seriously delicious even if the mixture seems a little dodgy the egg really binds it well

Mixed the egg white with the coconut mixture

Form into balls:

Sorry I didn't get a good picture of the finished product but trust me they are really good! and they only took 15 minutes in total.

Also, I made these banana, strawberry oatmeal squares and added some blueberries. I wouldn't recommend them because they tasted quite dry and although the outside was hard (tasted more stale than crispy the inside was soft) and leaving it longer in the oven didn't help either.