Breakfast on Fields – Pumpkin Pie!

When I think about early breakfasts in nature, I think about my happy time. It’s still very early, I don’t need to hurry and I can enjoy each moment of the world (or Berlin) waking slowly up. During the summer it was warm and I used to take a cold coffee brew along. But time has changed, by this I mean that it’s Autumn already and hot coffee in thermos is a must.

Do you remember me writing that it’s not so easy to convince my friends to enjoy this great moments with me? Now it’s not that difficult, as sunrise is after 7 am. Easy! This time I dragged Eva and Christiann with me, who… were happy to join. Food people are cool people! So we did it. It was colder than in summer, but we had a magical mist around and two delicious pies. We also had coffee, which got cold as I lost my proper thermos, but the view was stunning and it didn’t really matter. Just look at these pictures…

As Mark Twain said: “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” So next breakfast in nature is on it’s way 🙂

Have a great weekend!

You will need for the filling:

• 500g pumpkin
• about 40g topinambur
• 100g feta
• tbsp rosemary
• pinch of salt
• 1 onion
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 celery stalks

Heat an oven to 180*C. Cover a tray with a baking paper, place on it pieces of pumpkin, topinambur, feta, rosemary, onion and garlic, drizzle it with oil, sprinkle with salt and bake for about 30 minutes.

Meantime cut celery stalks into small pieces and fry in a pan over a medium heat.

When your veggies and feta are baked, move them to a bowl and smash, then add celery and mix it in. Let it cool.

You can use a ready made pie dough or you can make one yourself.

You will need for pie dough:

• 2 ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 2 tbsp sugar
• big pinch of salt
• 220g butter, cold
• 1 cup water, cold
• egg for brushing

Place flour, sugar and salt in a bowl. Add the butter cut in a very small pieces and rub it into the flour using your fingers. Add half of the water and mix it with the dough (I used hands). Add the rest of the water spoon after spoon, just so the dough comes together nicely. Make a ball, roll it in a foil and leave in your fridge for about an hour.

Cut your dough in half. Flour a surface and roll each piece so it will fit into a pie form.

Place one piece of rolled dough in the pie form, place filling on it and cover with the other rolled dough. Then you can do some fancy shapes on the edges 😀

Brush the dough with a lightly beaten egg. Bake for about 30 minutes.

Enjoy, Marta