November 2010
6 posts
Fallternal Twin Soups
Kitchen sink pasta, an impromptu yet typical Sunday meal in our house is an informal medley and mixing of the week’s leftovers. Vegetable odds and ends get haphazardly tucked amidst fusilli, campanelle, gigli and the like, then dotted with chèvre and blanketed in Parm. This is an off-the-cuff, cleaning-fridge kind of meal that often bodes the biggest smiles and satisfied stomachs of...
Pumpkins are not merely a favorite fall canvas for carving funny faces and frightful scenes, first and foremost these blazing orange bulbs are food (!). If you can look past their use as spooky porch decorations, and (bien sûr) their excellent smashing abilities they are certainly among the tastiest of autumn squashes.
The recipe below calls for white pumpkin, but any...
Trick-or-Seeds
The sugar highs have calmed down but you still have heaps of soon-to-turn-soggy pumpkin seeds lying around the kitchen in forgotten bowls. Cut your candy cravings by baking up some crunchy homemade granola flecked with these autumnal bites. Pumpkins seeds are rich in iron, protein, Omega 3 and 6 fats, magnesium, manganese, as well as phytosterols (which help reduce cholesterol).
I find that...