C is here to help out whilst D recovers from Thursday's arthroscopic
bone chipping and grinding procedure on her shoulder. Bone spurs had
become a problem, so they had to go.

(She's plugged into a six-pack cooler filled with ice water that's
pumped around her wounded joint. My wife is presently attached to an
object. C and I are in charge of adding more ice now and again.
Medical persons have assured us this will pass. Their safety and life
expectancy depends on the accuracy of those assurances, I assure you.)

I finished making a batch of demiglace today, kinda sorta nearly
following Anthony Bourdain's instructions in the Les Halles cookbook,
and C wanted something that'd make use of the newly minted essence of
steer that was cooling in the fridge this evening.

Okay.

Off I went to the store for meat and veg and more ice. This is what I
bought: parsley, bison steaks, porcini mushrooms, acorn squash,
celery, shredded broccoli stem slaw mix, beer, and ice.

This is what I made: Pan seared bison steak strips with a mushroom
wine sauce; baked acorn squash casserole with yogurt, thyme, and
grated parmesan cheese; garlicky broccoli slaw.

Yum.

And C gets to haul a sample of demiglace home to Austin on Monday.
--
modom

"Southern barbecue is a proud thoroughbred whose bloodlines are easily traced.
Texas Barbecue is a feisty mutt with a whole lot of crazy relatives."

--Robb Walsh, Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook

modom (palindrome guy) wrote:

>
> baked acorn squash casserole with yogurt, thyme, and
> grated parmesan cheese;

That sounds interesting. How do you make that? Ever tried it with other
squashes? I'm not an acorn fan, would it work with a butternut?


Dawn

Dawn wrote:
> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>
>>
>> baked acorn squash casserole with yogurt, thyme, and
>> grated parmesan cheese;
>
> That sounds interesting. How do you make that? Ever tried it with
> other squashes? I'm not an acorn fan, would it work with a butternut?
>
>
> Dawn

I'm not modem. But I don't see any reason why butternut squash wouldn't
work.

Jill

"jmcquown" > wrote

> Dawn wrote:
>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> baked acorn squash casserole with yogurt, thyme, and
>>> grated parmesan cheese;
>>
>> That sounds interesting. How do you make that? Ever tried it with
>> other squashes? I'm not an acorn fan, would it work with a butternut?

> I'm not modem. But I don't see any reason why butternut squash wouldn't
> work.

If it was modem, it wouldn't be palindrome guy!

nancy

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:55:15 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
wrote:

>
>"jmcquown" > wrote
>
>> Dawn wrote:
>>> modom (palindrome guy) wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> baked acorn squash casserole with yogurt, thyme, and
>>>> grated parmesan cheese;
>>>
>>> That sounds interesting. How do you make that? Ever tried it with
>>> other squashes? I'm not an acorn fan, would it work with a butternut?
>
>> I'm not modem. But I don't see any reason why butternut squash wouldn't
>> work.
>
>If it was modem, it wouldn't be palindrome guy!
>
>nancy
>
Is that a tautology?

--
modom

"Southern barbecue is a proud thoroughbred whose bloodlines are easily traced.
Texas Barbecue is a feisty mutt with a whole lot of crazy relatives."

--Robb Walsh, Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook

On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 04:43:43 GMT, Dawn >
wrote:

>> baked acorn squash casserole with yogurt, thyme, and
>> grated parmesan cheese;
>
>That sounds interesting. How do you make that? Ever tried it with other
>squashes? I'm not an acorn fan, would it work with a butternut?
>

I split the squash and seeded it. Then I zapped it in the microwave
oven a few minutes till it was soft enough to scrape the flesh from
the skin. (A ghastly Haloween image for you to savor) Then I mashed
the flesh in a buttered casserole with a little butter, about a
quarter cup of yogurt, some fresh thyme leaves (1/2 tsp or so), and
S&P. C grated enough parmesan cheese to lightly cover the top, and I
sprinkled a tiny bit of powdered chipotle on it. It went into a 350F
oven for about 30 minutes till the cheese had made a crust and the
whole thing was bubbly hot.

I'm certain it would work with butternut squash, too. Maybe even
pumpkin. Also I'd bet sage would fit in nicely and likely other herbs
as well. Or you could go in a curry direction, dropping the herbs in
favor of ginger, cumen, turmeric, chiles, fenugreek, etc.
--
modom

"Southern barbecue is a proud thoroughbred whose bloodlines are easily traced.
Texas Barbecue is a feisty mutt with a whole lot of crazy relatives."

--Robb Walsh, Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook

"modom (palindrome guy)" <moc.etoyok@modom> wrote

> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 08:55:15 -0500, "Nancy Young" >
> wrote:

>>"jmcquown" > wrote

>>> I'm not modem. But I don't see any reason why butternut squash wouldn't
>>> work.
>>
>>If it was modem, it wouldn't be palindrome guy!

> Is that a tautology?

Could be!

nancy