Spiced Kuri Squash Soup and Gingerbread Bundt Cake

Our sweet bulldog is now half-blind. In a Shakespearean twist, her eyeball had to come out last Tuesday. She is adjusting like a champ. We are resorting to pirate costumes to adjust ourselves, but she is in much less pain now without the tumor that had invaded the eye, and so we are grateful. She […]

Curried Kabocha Squash Soup

Currently on a season of night shifts, so dinner is my new breakfast. Hearty winter soup seems to fit that awkward role well. I don’t know how I lived before my Vitamix. For my birthday this year, Mom and Dad Ellis gifted the majestic machine that I do caress and canoodle like a new lover. […]

Moroccan Butternut Squash Soup

Every autumn I impulse-buy a couple of squashes. I can’t stand it, they make me giggle. Gourds are the most Muppety of all vegetables. They just delight me, and so I absently put them in the cart. Once home, what to do with several pounds of earthen tubers? Squash them, of course. Halloween is the […]