We have been getting bountiful harvest as previously pictured. Last night I made a casserole with our 8-ball squashes that was beautiful enough to take a picture.

Of course, the recipe was merely inspired by other recipes, so I wrote down what I actually did to the best of my memory.

https://www.olum.org/yduj/recipe/zucchini-lasagne.txt


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"Squash Parmesan" (like Eggplant Parm, which we also had in this meal.) I think I started with the Laurel's Kitchen recipe, but I don't really remember anymore. Anyway, it's the bake-only, no-fry version of eggplant parm. Each squash makes 2 stacks, takes about a stack and a half, or a stack and a (smaller) eggplant stack to make a meal.


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Last year, I had a big birthday bash. This year, obviously that wasn't happening.

I had a pretty good birthday anyway. I made blueberry French toast casserole the night before for Valerie to put in the oven in the morning (since she gets up earlier) so we could have it piping hot for breakfast. Since she was up early anyway, Valerie had borrowed ( Read more... )

We decided to celebrate the inauguration by having foods that the newly inaugurated persons enjoyed. Ken did the research. Apparently Biden's favorite food is spaghetti and meatballs, which we thought was insufficiently celebratory.

However Harris has more interesting tastes, and the two dishes we saw were seafood gumbo and masala dosa. So we made ( Read more... )

We normally celebrate New Year's Eve at 7 PM, which is midnight GMT. However, this time Jocelyn was going to her boyfriend's house earlier than that (Covid safe? Maybe.), so we decided to celebrate at noon, where it turns out to be midnight in Thailand, among other places. The advantage of noon is that you actually get to see your clock saying 11: ( Read more... )

Jocelyn and her boyfriend did all the work; all I did was make the dough ahead of time. I took this picture before it got too crazy (they later put wheels on the house - you can see it will be pulled by the elephants in this picture)


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When we lived in California, we made "cheese soup in a pumpkin tureen" at Thanksgiving. We brought this tradition to New England, but then at some point we ended up always inviting people who were kosher, and so they didn't want cheese soup, and we ended up dropping it from the menu. As I mentioned earlier, I got excited about being able to do it ( Read more... )

So we had all the things: turkey, stuffing, candied yams, gravy, baked green beans with yummy breading, home pressed cider, cranberry things. We didn't have to have: a vegetarian main dish, gravy made without milk for those keeping kosher, being extraordinarily careful when stuffing the turkey so as not to touch the vegetarian "out of the bird ( Read more... )

After Halloween comes processing pumpkins! We didn't buy any this year ourselves, but we managed to score some from church friends who were using them primarily as decoration before Halloween. We got two large and two small. One of the large ones appeared to have a couple of bad spots, so I processed it tonight. I processed it in the instant ( Read more... )

I went to BJ's, the local wholesale store (think Costco; only less national). One of the things I often buy there is giant bags of dark chocolate chips, with intent to just eat them by the handful. (Secretly this is less healthy for me than M&Ms because it has higher fat content, and I have a cholesterol problem, not a blood sugar problem.) ( Read more... )