Sunday, November 25, 2007

Fried Potatoes


Today is Gray Cup Sunday, the pinnacle of the Canadian Football League season, and I'm not at a party celebrating. This is by choice. I am not interested in football. I find football dull and difficult to pay attention to. There's something about the day that deserves a party, though.

Several years ago, after fostering an anti-Gray Cup party tradition, some friends sadly informed us they would no longer be available to celebrate the day with us in our particular fashion because the desire to actually watch the game had stolen upon them. This was not particularly sad, just somewhat puzzling. These days we celebrate the day by grocery shopping in an empty store.

I don't know what it is about Gray Cup Sunday, but I had this wicked craving today for hot wings and potato chips today. Sitting around the living room watching-the-game-food. Even though I held strong through all the grocery aisles, my passion for salty crispiness did not abate when we got home.

So I made me some potato chips. And ate them as I watched The Simpsons, avoiding the big game one channel over.

Monday, November 05, 2007

Planet Pumpkin

I've been living in pumpkin land for the past couple of weeks.

We got several pumpkins this year from our CSA, like every year. This year however, we actually wanted to eat them before they rotted away. A noble goal, yes?
We got through the first little pumpkin quickly with Creamy Pumpkin pasta and Liberian Pumpkin Stew from the Simply in Season book. Pretty tasty.

Even our giant Jack-O-Lantern pumpkin was saved for food this Hallowe'en - we used an LED light inside the lantern instead of candles so it wouldn't get charred and nasty on the inside. After its life as a Jack-O-Lantern was complete, we roasted it whole until it was nice and soft. It ultimately gave us four litres of cooked pumpkin to deal with.

So this weekend - I dealt with it.

Pumpkin and kidney bean enchiladas...


Pumpkin Crumble....


And pumpkin bread.

And there is more pumpkin pie filling and pumpkin enchilada sauce in the freezer for later squash adventures.

So as a celebration, and as reward for our hard work using up our pumpkin in such ingenious ways, we celebrated with some fantastic Sargent Sundae soft serve pumpkin pie ice cream.

BEST SOFT SERVE IN TOWN!