Now, how should I cook this? I ordered an autumn squash on my last grocery delivery and this is what I got.
What kind of squash is it? Does one eat the rind?
What kind of squash is it? Does one eat the rind? It's quite small; I've put it on a saucer to give an idea of size.
I took a couple of little pots of apple sauce out of the freezer for my next couple of breakfasts, but on closer inspection they were labelled 'dahl'... not something I wanted to eat for breakfast. Although I'm thinking of ringing the changes by trying 'breakfasts of the world'; I know that in other countries people have soups and rice and noodles and cheese and cold meat....
But not today.
So supper was going to be dahl made into soup. soup. The original recipe for dahl incorporated squash, but I'm holding back on that little orange squash for now. Instead I sauted a little chopped onion, and some celeriac and carrot cut into little cubes before adding the dahl and some water.
Then I discovered we had run out of bread for toast! But there was a solitary cold sausage and two sad falafels... quite soon I appeared to have concocted a fairly substantial bowl of sort of stew.
....
I suddenly remembered my 'Year of Wonder' book, by Clemency Burton-Hill. She chooses a piece of music for every day of the year, some well known, others not.
Today's choice is a song, composed by Maria Malibran (1808 - 1836), 'one of the most celebrated divas of her day'. She was very talented, not only as a singer but as a composer and wrote around 40 songs before she died in a horseriding accident at the age of 28.
'Rataplan' (drumming sound), sung by Cecelia Bertoli.
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