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mark_asphodelI love fall.
I didn't really get to enjoy it this year what with bouncing around the country like a Ping-Pong ball and when I was living out of a hotel room for 50% of October and November I didn't get to enjoy home-cooked fall foods, either. No persimmon pudding or sweet potato pie, no chestnut stuffing or pomegranate cream.
Well, I guess since fall hasn't taken its leave yet, I'm making up for it. Last night I shelled a pound of fresh Italian chestnuts and cooked them up with a mess of brussels sprouts, then threw a prize of a small Blue Hubbard squash into the oven so I could make my own squashy sauce to dress gnocchi tonight.
The kitchen's a mess, my ricer will be hell to clean thanks to squash pulp, and I have fragments of chestnut shell under my fingernails but I feel a hell of a lot better for doing all that.
Oh yeah and it was pretty tasty too. Washed it down with a chocolate porter milkshake, even. Hey, we had old beer and older ice cream to use up.
I didn't really get to enjoy it this year what with bouncing around the country like a Ping-Pong ball and when I was living out of a hotel room for 50% of October and November I didn't get to enjoy home-cooked fall foods, either. No persimmon pudding or sweet potato pie, no chestnut stuffing or pomegranate cream.
Well, I guess since fall hasn't taken its leave yet, I'm making up for it. Last night I shelled a pound of fresh Italian chestnuts and cooked them up with a mess of brussels sprouts, then threw a prize of a small Blue Hubbard squash into the oven so I could make my own squashy sauce to dress gnocchi tonight.
The kitchen's a mess, my ricer will be hell to clean thanks to squash pulp, and I have fragments of chestnut shell under my fingernails but I feel a hell of a lot better for doing all that.
Oh yeah and it was pretty tasty too. Washed it down with a chocolate porter milkshake, even. Hey, we had old beer and older ice cream to use up.
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Date: 2015-12-16 01:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2015-12-16 05:04 am (UTC)Definitely good all year round, tho. And a local place (Atwater) makes a killer coffee-vanilla porter.
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Date: 2015-12-16 03:08 am (UTC)But I would try your food. It always sounds so good. ;P
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Date: 2015-12-16 05:05 am (UTC)This particular set of meals wasn't that unhealthful, though-- no gratuitous slops of olive oil or bacon grease to make it diabolically tasty. The pudding cake I made on Sunday was not healthful in the slightest...
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Date: 2015-12-16 05:22 am (UTC)To be fair I like all kinds of foods. It's just...man. If I had to pick a least favorite thing, brussels sprouts taste so awful to me. I don't care for cooked cabbage at all--and I know they're not cabbage, but they taste almost exactly like it! LOL.
I mean, I have a distinct dislike for tomato-based pasta things...but I love tomatoes. I always say I hate pasta because most people love tomato-based pasta sauces and I've never had one I liked unless it was completely made from scratch--including home grown tomatoes that were canned and then used to make the sauce. LMAO. But it's been an age since I had spaghetti made like that. (And so...the hatred continues...)
But I like reading people's food posts. And you always have good ones. I feel like I'm missing out on fun stuff!
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Date: 2015-12-16 09:37 am (UTC)(also: i fucking love brussel sprouts)
(also also: holy shit how did i not know porter milkshake was a thing brb acquiring ice cream and beer)
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Date: 2015-12-16 06:12 am (UTC)then what is the goddamn point :P