Fabulous Squash Soup
3 thin slices of lardo (or lardons, or pancetta, or even bacon), cut into small cubes 2 cloves of garlic, minced 1 small shallot 1 butternut squash, peeled, and roasted until soft 2 cups chicken stock...
View ArticlePlanning for Thanksgiving
Just for the record — so that I am sure to give credit where credit is due — you must understand that the photos in this post are not — *NOT* — of my own, personal Thanksgiving supplies. They are...
View ArticleSausage-Stuffed Squash
I didn’t grow up eating a lot of pork. I’m Jewish, yes. But that’s not the reason. My father was in the Navy during World War II, you see. And while he was shipboard, as he described, it, we would eat...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Vegan Pumpkin Soup
It’s strangely appropriate, I thought as I was roasting pumpkins, that the making of this soup has required something borrowed (vegetable stock) and something blue (my good old trusty Dutch oven)....
View ArticleZucchini Cakes, For One
I’m all alone this weekend. Sarah has gone a’visiting, and left me here to make my own fun. I don’t actually much enjoy cooking for one, and usually, when this happens, my food situation quickly...
View ArticleRoasted Butternut Squash Rings with Marinated Onions
Riddle me this, dear readers: what’s the worst thing about making a butternut squash? It’s not the taste, obviously. Butternut squash is sweet and savory and delicious. It caramelizes in the oven,...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Roasted Squash with Sage and Bacon
So here’s the good-news / bad-news situation. Which should — by this point — sound like a pretty familiar situation to folks reading along at home. The bad news is that once again, for the third year...
View ArticleBlue Hubbard Squash Purée
Pumpkin pie, dear readers, is one of my favorite autumn treats. But suspect squash purée, excavated from a sealed tin can labelled with a happy turkey, or a beaming grandmotherly face, or some other...
View ArticleThanksgiving Thoughts: Pumpkin Mousse
I would appreciate it if you would all take the word ‘pumpkin’ in pumpkin mousse to be a metonym for a larger category, rather than a thing unto itself. I’m not trying to mislead you about the content...
View ArticleTwice Cooked Thanksgiving Recipe Index
The moment of truth is upon us, Thanksgiving cooks. Now is the time for a frenetic flurry of brining birds and baking bread, looking up last minute formulae for oyster dressing and sweet potato pie....
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