Comments on: The Butternut Squash Soup Project

By: Casey Henry

Casey Henry — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:16:41 +0000

Thanks for the link to that recipe. It sounds great and I just got a butternut squash from my CSA this week. As I still have plenty of zucchini, I may give this a shot!

Casey

By: Michael Beyer

Michael Beyer — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 14:08:19 +0000

Great idea for the cinnamon croutons! Here is a recipe for a couscous that contains roasted butternut squash, zucchini, and carrots. http://michaelbeyer.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/moroccan-couscous/

By: Casey Henry

Casey Henry — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:06:19 +0000

Oh, I do that, too! I love reading cookbooks, cooking magazines, and looking longingly at gorgeous pictures of food. And I’ll own up to reading and resolving to make hundreds more recipes than I actually end up making.

By: Sally Jones

Sally Jones — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:51 +0000

I want to know why I don’t know any of these fabulously articulate people, except Casey of course. But, I want to weigh in with the confession that I often buy Cook’s Illustrated, but mostly because I love the art! The food illustrations, especially the cover art, are magnificent. Also, I have a strange fascination for pouring over the most minute details of a recipe, making it in my mind, but rarely actually committing the act of doing it in real life. My husband says this practice of absorbing recipes mentally actually replaces cooking for me. Jab intended.

By: Nick Novia-Ct

Nick Novia-Ct — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:49:58 +0000

Dan, we miss you. I posted your podcast on Facebook.
(Thank you Casey, for giving Dan and I (and Martin) this Forum. btw…When I drank, my favorite was Bulleit on the rocks. Mint Juleps, especially Bulleit…Heaven. I know Real women who drive truck….

By: Casey Henry

Casey Henry — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:31:14 +0000

Really? Wow. You’re the only person I’ve heard from who hasn’t had good luck with Cook’s Illustrated. Maybe it’s just the recipes I’ve chosen, which are mostly vegetables since I don’t cook meat much. (Except for the roast turkey recipe I used for Thanksgiving, and it was a huge hit.) Their process appeals to me–figuring out why a recipe works or doesn’t through science and testing. Now sometimes I’m annoyed when they improve recipes by adding extra steps, which I’m mostly too lazy to do when the original version was completely satisfactory. What other thing have you made that turned out badly?

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:49:23 +0000

Oh. And you just give that mint julep to me. I’ll need it.

By: Michael Martin

Michael Martin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:48:41 +0000

OK. Here’s a response on the butternut squash thing. (I’m predictable. Fine. Just say it.) Anyway, I’ll give the recipe a try this evening. Like you, I’ve never quite got why some folks love the stuff and I only eat it when it is placed in front of me. But I need to understand more about the Cooks’ Illustrated thing. My sister, Carol, swears by those and gave me one of the hard cover books. But, I’ve been disappointed in every recipe I’ve tried. For example, not browning meat before you put it in a slow cooker? Comes out soupy and textureless. I’m sure there’s something I’m not getting about it so I’ve not quite given up. But it’s no longer my default cookbook.

By: danny h.

danny h. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:35:54 +0000

Whiskey straight; I agree.

By: danny h.

danny h. — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:32:51 +0000

Dear Casey ( & Nick ),

I have been thinking of you a very lot, you too nick – but not as very. Casey, congratulations and great luck with your new venture. I wish you were both here for my NY style opening that I am hosting for my first solo show this Saturday Night in Gander. Casey, your Flower Trilogy is in the show; it also made it as the icon in the index of Newfoundland’s #1 Magazine – The Newfoundland Herald, next to my name and page # for the interview which features three pages of text and pictures of my work. Nick, you are my first real patron, and you know that means a lot to me – you encouraged me early on, and I hope the experience leaves you a positive return. Casey, you look great in that picture; did you cut your hair, or just have it back? I am putting together a parcel for you, and sometime this spring I am making it a point to drive down there and deliver that piece to you directly; it’s already yours already; but I hope you will allow me to wine and dine you in celebration of the delivery. I also hung 7 of my Photographs, including the picture of the Pitcher Plant Bouquet; I gave it a name for the show; I call it – Avec My Best Intentions. Anyway, enough about me; I have no idea where I could find some Butternut Squash up here. I am 100 percent serious when I say – I don’t know of a store within 100 kilometers of here that has ever had a butternut squash in it; ever; but I’ll be in Gander tomorrow and see what they got,… still, I doubt it. I have had a subscription CI for a couple of years now, I have brought most of them up here, so I will look for that issue. Now I will try to add a link for my two best art friends – it’s a cbc radio interview I did yesterday for the morning show here, and the piece made the highlights podcast – enjoy.

http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/cnlmornshow_20100305_28605.mp3

Thinking of you both – separately of course;
With Love,
Your friend,
danny h.