Look look look! Or rather listen listen listen. Autumn, of the awesome gluten-free food blog Autumn Makes and Does, has started a podcast called Alphabet Soup. It's about the places & people where food and writing intersect, and I was a guest on her second episode. I feel very excited about this topic. We talked about all kinds of stuff, from kombucha to simple cakes to Seventeen magazine, and I read some poems and talked about the food in them. Thank you for having me, Autumn! (Psst: she fed me amazing dinner and cake, and made me a bourbon sour with thyme and honey simple syrup. Yeah, you should be jealous. If Autumn's blog isn't on your foodie radar, it freaking should be.)Listen to my nonsense and Autumn's very good questions here.
To bookend -- today I made sweet and spicy kabocha in the toaster oven. (Pictured: squash smile.) The kabocha was from the 4th Street Co-Op, where you don't have to be a member to shop! I also have a handsome little butternut squash, waiting to be souped, sitting on my counter. How's winter squash season for you?
3 comments:
I have a handsome butternut squash, too! I am baking it tomorrow with brown sugar. Mmmhhhmmmm!
I do so love all these hearty cold-weather squashes. Have you seen these? Not necessarily these ones but butternut o'lanterns in general: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nu8knhZyjEk/TLLSqHGM6wI/AAAAAAAAAmU/wgjkLh_3XfI/s1600/jack-o-lanterns.jpg
I have a delightful looking pumpkin that's going to be made into some like this:
http://theculinarychase.blogspot.com/2009/01/pumpkin-rice-laksa-soup.html
except my version has garlic, red pepppers, sometimes mushroom or courgette, and a large slug of nam plah.
Rice in soup = delicious.
Also, in Scotland we still make turnip lanterns, they're exhausting to carve!
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