Winter Squash 101: words and pictures. 8 January 2008 8:19 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking, friends, ingredients, pictures, winter squash , 5 commentsThis post is dedicated to Debbie, who asked about prepping winter squash for Gladys’s Rice and Bean Stew.
Winter squash are delicious but labor-intensive, as I attempt to demonstrate in the following photo series. Whenever possible, I highly recommend roasting them in their more or less inedible hard outer skins, the better to scoop out their delicious cooked flesh without any of that pesky peeling beforehand. But sometimes you want chunks of squash, as in the above-mentioned stew, or winter squash risottos, and so on. In that case, you’ve got a little more work ahead of you, and here’s how I do that work. (more…)
A few thoughts about eggs. 9 March 2007 7:02 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking, eating, eggs, health, ingredients, responsibility, restaurants, work , 4 commentsI grew up with the idea that a person shouldn’t, or maybe even couldn’t, eat more than one egg at a time. In fact, I can remember a quiz question on the subject in one of my Suske en Wiske comic books (Belgian, but popular with kids in the Netherlands, too): how many eggs could a person eat on “een nuchtere maag” — an empty stomach. Of course, logically, the answer is one, but due to a combination of literal-mindedness and less than entirely awesome Dutch reading skills (okay, technically Flemish, since as previously mentioned Suske and Wiske are Belgian) I took this as further proof that one egg was some kind of physiological limit for a long time. (more…)
