Posts Tagged ‘squash’
Friday, December 18th, 2009
Penne with butternut squash sauce
We are leaving for vacation tomorrow, so I have been trying to use up what is in the house. One thing I had on hand was a butternut squash. One of our favorite recipes is corn, bean, and squash soup, but we have had that several times recently, so I decided to try something different. I thought it might make a good sauce for pasta, so I went with that. I mostly stuck to
this recipe from the nourishing gourmet, but I added some cannellini beans and some whole milk at the end, since I also needed to use that up. The result was ok. Adding more salt helped a lot, but I think that it was too thick, too squashy, and too much sauce for the amount of pasta. So next time I would probably use either more millk and pasta, or less squash (and more salt). It was a nice way to use my new immersion blender though, and I have been looking for tomato-less pasta sauces recently, since I keep hearing how canned tomatoes are bad for me.
Tags: pasta, squash
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
Squash, fennel, and apple soup
I tried this recipe from
The Voluptuous Vegan. I thought that the combination of squash, fennel, and apple sounded particularly good, and that turned out to be true. The recipe called for a kabocha squash, which I just happened to have on hand. I had never had it before, but someone at the grocery store recommended it. It is similar to butternut in taste, but looks like a small green pumpkin. I will definitely be making this one again.
Tags: apple, fennel, soup, squash
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