Squash bonanza

December 02, 2004

Squash bonanza

I found this rather marvellous piece about squash in the New York Times, via the wonderful Daddy Types. It reminded me to share this picture with you: a pumpkin pie I made a few weeks back for our pumpkin-fest. I used this recipe from Southernfood.about.com, and I have to say it's far better than the Mrs Beeton one I'd used before, taking me right back to the flavours I experienced when I spent a spell living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Usually, Mrs Beeton's recipes are a cast-iron guarantee of success. I inherited my copy dating from the sixties from my mother, who was given it as a wedding present. Everything from ugli fruit cocktail to brawn is in there. Anyway on this occasion I have to bow to the superior culinary skills of the deep south. They certainly know how to take a healthy vegetable like squash and turn it into a calorific timebomb.

2 Dec 2004 22:16:46 | Kitchen

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