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Butternut squash

Stuck Between Autumn and Spring

We must have pissed off the rain Gods: Saturday morning rain – outside the kitchen window…       …and outside the front door.   It was bad enough to cancel my long-planned bicycle ride down the Santa Ana River Trail, but not bad enough to detour through the Saturday Farmers’ Market in Irvine. My [...]

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Food Foray # 1.2

If you missed it, this is the follow-up post to Food Foray # 1.1. It was a busy week, so we just got around to playing with the roasted butternut squash. The plusses – the butternut puree mixture that went into the ravioli was outstanding. So were the fried sage leaves. The construction of the [...]

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Playing with Butternut, Soup Style

Over the weekend, we were asked to contribute a simple soup to a good friend’s holiday dinner party. Since butternut squash was on sale (and I’m on a butternut squash kick), we decided to make a soup out of it. While we think everyone happily ate the soup we brought, we’re not exactly married to [...]

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