Autumnal eating

I love food, and I love it most in autumn.

These are some of my favourite autumnal meals. I could have drawn about a hundred more (risotto, stuffed giant mushrooms, cottage pie, lentil dahl...) but these were the first that sprung to mind.

Lasagne has been a favourite since childhood. Minestrone and chili are the kinds of meals I love cooking on cold rainy autumn evenings, warm wholesome smells fugging up the kitchen. Food that is nourishing, warming and satisfying. Pastry is my vice so I can never resist a pie.
And if you put roast beef, butternut squash, carrots, onions, stock and herbs in a pot and slow cook it for a few hours, you're onto a winner.

This is the kind of drawing I did all through my childhood and teenage years...even aged sixteen lots of my schoolbooks were illustrated with colouring pencil and black ink. My religious studies teacher, who said she looked forward to marking my work because she loved looking at the illustrations, wrote in my leaver's book that I should always "march to the beat of [my] own drum". She probably didn't mean "switch all your direction in life to art because I really liked that illustration you did of the Garden of Eden at the end your essay that time," but it's funny that I've chosen a more artistic route with her advice in mind.

P.S. sorry about the dodgy scanning!