But since I'm sitting here eating left overs from last night's tasty dinner, I thought I would report some recent meals.
Last night was Moroccan Pumpkin and Lentils from Vegetarian Times October 2006. I had flagged it last year as something I wanted to make, but I never got around to it. So this year I made it. It is very good, with the perfect amount of spice. I had never actually cooked a pumpkin before -- butternut and acorn squash, sure, but never pumpkin. The recipe called for a two pound pumpkin and, of course, the smallest I could find was four lbs, so I used half for the recipe and roasted and pureed the other half. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with that yet. Probably pumpkin bread, but any better ideas? Then I also roasted the seeds, which I just remembered are still sitting in the oven. Hmm, maybe I should get those out.
The night before, I made a fall classic in our house: Brussel Sprouts Cockaigne (from Joy of Cooking, 1997) over mashed potatoes. The brussel sprouts are cut in half and basically braised face down on stove top in butter, olive oil and garlic. How can that be bad? I also made Brownies Cockaigne from the same book. Noting the name of these two recipes, I decided to look up what/where Cockaigne was. Turns out its a mythical place invented in medieval times where there was abundant food and drink and sex and the peasant didn't have to work. The Wikipedia article also noted that the Joy of Cooking authors used this name to designate some of their favorite recipes. Considering two of them are in my regular rotation, I would have to agree.
Monday night we had another classic: poached salmon with dill mayonnaise served with greens (this time it was kale, usually it's chard but we had chard already that weekend) and rice (usually it's potatoes, but we were trying to mix it up.)
Tonight we are going over to some friends' house, so no cooking tonight.
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