this week's new recipe

Per my Non Year's Resolution, this week I tried a squash soup. Roasted the squash, pulled out the flesh, cooked it with apple cider, chicken broth, sauteed garlic/onion/carrots, simmered and pureed.

I'm not that fond of squash - partly a texture thing, which is the main factor behind most of my food dislikes (e.g. avocado, pears) but mainly because I was forced to eat squash as a child. Sauteed until it was brown and slimy, which is about the worst possible way to prepare it. So these days I usually don't eat it.

But we get squash in our CSA basket on occasion, so I try to find ways to use it that I won't overly mind. The squash risotto was a success.

This - well, the wife enjoyed it. I won't rush to make this again, but if I liked squash I might consider it a success.

What I'm reading: Rachel Caine, Ill Wind

I really should know better

I stole farmount's joke for my header at work:
"What did you do to the cat, dear? It looks half dead." -Mrs. Schrodinger

And I got the following message from someone I occasionally deal with:
"excuse my ignorance, but who is Mrs. Schrodinger?"

...

I got the same sort of non-appreciation awhile back when I used the header
"Loki, Eris, and Coyote walk into a bar, and the bartender says 'Order, please.'"