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[mark_asphodel]

I 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.

Comments

[samuraiter]

Porter is a beer for all seasons, says I. (Porteraiter. I go out of my way for the stuff.)

[mark_asphodel]

Yah, that was the first genre of beer I truly embraced before going all weird with lambics and other Belgian things.

Definitely good all year round, tho. And a local place (Atwater) makes a killer coffee-vanilla porter.

[hilow]

Brussels Sprouts... My worst enemy...

But I would try your food. It always sounds so good. ;P

[mark_asphodel]

Heh, thanks. I like food way too much.

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...

[hilow]

You need to start taking pictures of your creations to share! Then again, maybe not. I always get so hungry looking at food online.

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!

[queenlua]

+1 on the mark's food blog request

(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)

[bookofholsety]

no gratuitous slops of olive oil or bacon grease

then what is the goddamn point :P