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Recipes and Menus for October

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Saucy Dressings aims to complete this post – four weeks’ menus and recipes, plus a few spare by the end of 2026.

Every year an additional week’s menu, with the links to the individual recipes, is added.

For food in season in October, follow this link.

For music to listen to while cooking in October, follow this link.

You might also be interested in these posts – mostly concerned with Hallow’een:

“According to a survey of 1.8 million office projects and 28 million individual tasks, says John Lloyd in The Oldie, ‘the most productive time of the year is 11am on a Monday in October’.”

Week’s menu for October: number one

The end of October and beginning of November – when autumn and winter coexist in the Vallais

“Some weather’s coming; you can taste on the sides of your tongue a quince tang in the air.”

Anne Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

This month I’m in Spain, so instead of a starter for the dinner party there’ll be some suggestions for tapas… and this month’s cocktail will be ‘Spain in a Glass’.

Saturday lunch:

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OR

OR

FOLLOWED BY

OR

Sunday evening:

and/or

Monday evening chicken:

OR

Tuesday evening:

Wednesday evening meat:

Thursday evening dinner party:

Thank God it’s Friday drink:

WITH

Friday evening fish:

OR

Week’s menu for October: number two

The anniversary of Agincourt

This month is the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, and we’re lucky enough to have The Old Foodie aka Janet Clarkson, specialist food history blogger as our guru for the month, giving a background to this battle. In the meantime here (also read in the video clip below) is the rousing Shakespeare speech to inspire you.

We few, we happy few, we band of brothers:
For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhood cheap while any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day

Shakespeare, Henry V

Saturday lunch:

OR

OR

OR

FOLLOWED BY

Sunday supper:

OR

Monday evening meat:

Tuesday evening:

Wednesday evening poultry:

Thursday evening dinner party:

OR

Thank God It’s Friday drink and dip:

Friday evening fish:

OR

followed by

Week’s menu for October: number three

“A springful of larks in a rolling
Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling
Blackbirds and the sun of October
Summery
On the hill’s shoulder,
Here were fond climates and sweet singers suddenly
Come in the morning where I wandered and listened
To the rain wringing
Wind blow cold
In the wood faraway under me.”

Poem in October by Dylan Thomas

Saturday lunch:

OR

OR

OR

FOLLOWED BY

OR

Sunday evening pasta:

or

Monday evening poultry:

Tuesday evening:

Wednesday evening meat:

Thursday evening dinner party:

Thank God it’s Friday drink:

Friday evening fish:

Followed, or preceded by:

Week’s menu for October: number four

…and this month we have Hallow’een

“Mid-autumn follows, and the kitchen will fill with pumpkins, celeriac, walnuts and quinces from the trees and fields. The leaves will begin to fall slowly, but a day or two of strong wind will finish the job, exposing the trees’ skeletal winter profile”

Stephen Harris, The Daily Telegraph, September 2019

Saturday lunch:

OR

OR

OR

OR

AND

Sunday supper:

Monday evening meat:

Tuesday evening:

Wednesday evening poultry:

OR

WITH

AND

Thursday evening dinner party:

Thank God It’s Friday drink:

….. and to nibble at with it:

Friday evening fish:

OR

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