Pecan Pie Tartlets

These are the favorite thing I make for both my mother AND my mother-in-law, so I made them each a batch for Thanksgiving

a particularly pretty stir-fry

"Pumpkin stuffed with everything good"

I heard about this receipe on NPR last week and then tracked it down online.

First: open up a pumpkin

Empty it out, then mix up the stuffing and start stuffing it.  Stuffing: stale bread, cheese, crumbled bacon, scallions, garlic, thyme

Then, mix some nutmeg into some cream and pour it in:

Put the top back on and pop it in the over for around 2 hours (take the top back off for the last 20 minutes)

It comes out like this:

You can try slicing it up, but I went with option B which was "stick a spoon in there and mix it all up".  Then serve with bread.  It looks like vomit but it tasted pretty good.

 At the end you get the saddest pumpkin:

I probably wouldn't make this again but I'm glad I tried it.  If anything, I think I would take it one step further and blend it into some chicken broth to make a soup.  It had all the flavor of a rich soup but the texture was a challenge.  But hey, now I've cooked a pumpkin!

pot roast

Red curry

lazy sunday

I was in a cooking mood today, and it was also grocery day, so that worked out nicely.  Here are three things I made: ham and cheese crescent rolls, green bean casserole (from scratch - campbell's had nothing to do with this), and monkey bread (decidedly not from scratch - it uses prefab biscuit dough).  I also made a chocolate pudding pie, which was also decidedly not from scratch, but will definitely be delicious.

Roast pork with fennel

Another fall favorite: roast pork coated in fennel and garlic, with potatoes, onions and pears

Hello, fall food!

Lemon-rosemary grilled chicken, mashed butternut squash, sauteed brussels sprouts, and the classic roll from a blue tube. 

Here we go again

Just as I got started cooking again I got really sick for awhile and didn't feel like doing squat.  But that's finally over, so here's the tamale pie I made tonight:

back online... for one day

We're all moved in to our new house, which means I'm cooking again.  Here's two dinners from this week, followed by a bonus shot of the sampler appetizer platter at Thai Awesome.  Oh, and I'll be out of town for a week starting tomorrow, so we'll be back on hiatus until then.