helpful tips from my kitchen!

[moominmolly]

[1] If you've had a long hard day, the kind where you can just barely make it in the front door with your groceries (even though people are helping you with that last bit), don't drown your sorrows in a whole big container of cottage cheese. Just don't. Go for the ice cream, or something, instead. In the end, you'll be happier, and you'll probably waddle less.

[2] If you feed 1/3 of your pumpkin muffin batter to the floor, try to be pleased that the remaining batter -- that's right, the stuff you were just staring at and wondering whether it'd make a really flat loaf, or what -- just so happens to precisely fill up the emptied muffin tins.

[3] Butternut squash roasting in garlic and a bit of spice smells really good. As a bonus, it matches the pumpkin muffin batter on the floor.

(And apparently, it makes vegetarians come downstairs and ask, "what is that seductive meaty smell that smells so meaty and yet good?" "Uh, squash.")

Comments

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

The recipe for pumpkin bread in Joy of Cooking is excellent, although I usually leave the nuts out. It seems like you should be able to just adjust the cooking time and temp and bake it in muffin tins, although I've never tried...

Sorry your floor got some of the goods. But yay for orange foods!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I actually liked the taste of the ones I made, but substituting applesauce for eggs (and cutting down the moisture a bit) caused the texture to be a wee bit denser than it otherwise would have been. Actually, given how tasty the crispy little bits around the edges were where the stuff burbled up and cooked on the muffin tin itself, I might try the same recipe (applesauce included) and bake some as cookies! But thanks for the pointer, too, just in case. :)

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

I second that. I just made the Joy recipe on Sunday, substituting roasted butternut squash for the pumpkin, and its really good. I think I've converted hissilliness into a squash-eater.

squash-eaters

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I don't like yellow squash sliced and fried up with zucchini and onions or whatever, but man, there's not a whole lot that's naturally tastier than roasted butternut squash. Mmm.

Maybe I'll break down and try this bread this weekend. But I have all of these muffins to finish up first...