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It’s All About the Butternut, Baby

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One of the best things I've eaten in an airport was a roasted butternut and feta sandwich in Melbourne. Simple, earthy and salty all at the same time.  We're no strangers to the virtues of butternut squash around here, and in fact, my grinchiness about pumpkin this year has sent me straight into the arms of butternut squash.  Roasted, it makes great soup, salad, risotto, pasta, even pizza sauce.  Even with a good, sharp peeler, it may feel like prepping a butternut is taking your life into your own hands, but it's worth the effort.

October 15, 2013
Baking Cooking Dessert
Finding My Way Back: Maple Walnut Squares
Walnuts. Ruiner of fudgy chocolate brownies, scourge of chocolate chip cookies, I’ve tolerated you, but there’s no love lost between us. You’re slightly bitter and unless you’re incognito, almonds and pecans rocket past you on my list of favorite nuts.  Until now. Until this recipe. Paired with sweet maple syrup, you are magnificent. If, like…
October 13, 2013
Restaurants Travel
48 Hours in Denver: Black Eye, Uncle, Linger

   chile rellenos at linger denver| dailywaffle

Our friends Jed and Lara hosted us in Denver last weekend. The trip has become something of an October tradition in the last few years. I'd chalk it up to the everlasting sunshine in Denver and the coincidence with the beginning of the rainy season in Seattle, but really, it's been life events. Lara and I have known each other about 12 years and we worked together for a good batch of them. The first year I flew out for Lara's baby shower and returned a year later to meet A in person.  This year, A is up and around and walking. We rolled into town with no real plan, the only requirement being a pitstop at GoLite for Wolf. If you don't know GoLite, it's good outdoor/ workout /Winter gear on the cheap.

Like the best weekends, there was plenty of hangout time punctuated with good food - morning, noon and night. It's enough to make this girl want to move to Denver.

October 12, 2013
Op-Ed
Pumpkin Grinch

pumpkins at trader joes | dailywaffle

I’m a pumpkin Grinch this year. Before it was even October, I un-veganized a pumpkin cake with pecan streusel from Veganomicon (it was delish!), but now, even piles of gorgeous gourds aren't doing it for me.  I just can’t get on the pumpkin bandwagon. Trader Joe’s is rockin’ the pumpkin products big time – granola, toaster pastries, macarons, cereal bars, pumpkin spice coffee and tea, croissants, waffle mix,  even pumpkin body butter. You name it, they’ve got it. You can’t hit a food blog and not see a pumpkin recipe of some sort.  And yet, I’m not inspired.
October 3, 2013
Entertaining Recipes
Recovering from a Long Week…with Beets with Yogurt and Za’atar

beets with yogurt and za'atar | dailywaffle

Wolf was down in California finishing off Triathalon season over the weekend and I was back at the ranch prepping for the long week ahead. Food-wise, it was a hodge-podge, though I did cook Friday night after living off of enchilada casserole all week. It felt good to get back in the kitchen on Saturday morning and do something that didn't involve sitting in front of a computer. Kneading dough for pita bread and running some errands did me some good. But then that pita really needed something to go along with. Hummus?  Mmm, ok, but maybe something else?
September 15, 2013
Dessert Recipes
Fig Ice Cream Sandwiches with Speculoos Cookies

fig ice cream sandwiches with speculoos cookies | dailywaffle

"Slightly Gingery. The Ed Sheeran of cookies,” says the sign at Trader Joe’s.  Can you guess? Speculoos, aka biscoff cookies.   Now, I’m late to the biscoff  cookie crazy. I’ve never really flown Delta, which is where a lot of people first encountered a 2-pack of those cinnamony, gingersnappy cookies. Long known in Belgium, those little cookies have been one of the positives airline passengers can point to about flying in the last few years.

Gingersnaps have been a favorite of mine since childhood, thanks to little purple bags of Pogen's cookies.  But I never paid much mind to speculoos. I mean, I’ve had a packet of them in my cupboard for the last several months, just languishing. So when I bumped into this blueberry mascarpone tart with a speculoos cookie crust, a light flicked on in my head. Speculoos cookies would be perfect for ice cream sandwiches.
September 7, 2013
hatch chile poppers
Appetizers Entertaining Recipes
Football Food: Hatch Chile Poppers

hatch chile poppers | dailywaffle

Peeling back the wrapper on a can of refrigerator biscuits and thwacking it against the edge of the counter takes me back to childhood. I’m not talking about the big flaky layer biscuits, I’m talking the cheapest ones – the skinny tube of “homestyle” or “buttermilk” refrigerator biscuits that come 10 to a can. I’ll eat them every which way, but not as baked biscuits. Most of the time, I plunk them on top of Chunky Chicken Noodle soup and let them steam up in a shortcut version of chicken and dumplings. It’s comfort food from childhood that still hits the spot to this day if I’m not feeling great.
September 2, 2013
Not About Food
The Last Day
On the last day, she came up to my office one last time.  I heard her slowly coming up the stairs and then stop in the hallway, catching her breath.  She looked around the corner at me and then settled herself -- not on her bed in the usual spot under the window, just adjacent…
August 31, 2013
Breakfast Recipes
Hatch Chile Time: Hatch Chile Masa Waffles with Bacon
masa waffles with hatch chiles bacon| dailywaffle It’s Hatch Chile Time. The moment to catch and enjoy them is so fleeting, chile heads across the country are grabbing them up by the case and throwing them into the freezer to last until next year. While we can get them fresh, take advantage. Don’t limit your green chile to lunch and dinner.  Go beyond the usual scrambled eggs & chile and give this waffle a shot -- a Masa Waffle with Hatch Chiles, Bacon & Cinnamon Agave Syrup. (That said, this waffle has brinner written all over it, so why wait until next weekend?)
August 25, 2013
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