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butternut squash

  • Rigatoni with Sausage and Butternut Squash

    Rigatoni with Sausage and Butternut Squash

    Over my twenty years of doing The Amateur Gourmet, I’ve been approached by fans a handful of times. Usually the exchange is quick and pleasant: I feel a thrill for being recognized and hopefully they feel a thrill for meeting their favorite nerdy, gay, old-school food blogger. However the exchange goes, I’m always on the…

  • Seared Butternut Squash with Crispy Curried Chickpeas

    Seared Butternut Squash with Crispy Curried Chickpeas

    Some married people cheat when their husbands go out for the evening; I eat chickpeas.Craig doesn’t like chickpeas. He’ll eat them if they’re ground into a hummus, but presented in its original form, he’d almost rather eat anything else. I, on the other hand, adore them for their versatility: you can stew them, you can…

  • Focaccia with Butternut Squash, Garlic, and Sage

    Focaccia with Butternut Squash, Garlic, and Sage

    Butternut squash and sage in the spring? Alice Waters would throw a fit! But, hear me out: we went to Sailor last week in Fort Greene and April Bloomfield’s food was so incredible — I’m still dreaming about that green toast… and that chicken… and that stuffed radicchio — that I spent much of Saturday…

  • Roasted Butternut Squash and Red Onion with Tahini and Za’atar

    Roasted Butternut Squash and Red Onion with Tahini and Za’atar

    One man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Or, to put it another way, I lost my round of The Piglet. Granted, there was no way I could ever have triumphed over Naomi Duguid’s brilliant Burma. She totally deserved her win. But I have to confess, I took great comfort the next day when Yotam Ottolenghi’s…

  • Easy Butternut Squash Soup with Whiskey Ginger Cream

    Easy Butternut Squash Soup with Whiskey Ginger Cream

    When I got back from my book tour, all I wanted to do was cook cook cook. Comfort foods, mostly. That first night it was my ultimate comfort food dish of fusilli with homemade tomato sauce and a Caesar salad to start. The next night, though, I wanted a different sort of comfort food. I…

  • Maple-Roasted Butternut Squash and Apples

    Maple-Roasted Butternut Squash and Apples

    If there’s a time of year to break out Molly Stevens’s new Roasting book, this is it. Thanksgiving dinner is all about roasting. If you deep-fry your bird, you’re missing out on one of the great aspects of Thanksgiving–the lovely aroma of a slow-roasting bird wafting through your house or apartment. Keeping in the spirit…

  • Orangette’s Butternut Squash and Chickpea Salad with Tahini

    Orangette’s Butternut Squash and Chickpea Salad with Tahini

    Going through old pictures, just now, I found the picture you see above and smacked my lips at the memory: “Hey!” my brain sang out. “That’s that delicious butternut squash and chickpea salad with tahini you made from Orangette’s website.” According to the picture, I made this on December 19th. So please follow this link…

  • Why Bad Soups Happen To Good People [Plus: My Newest Kitchen Gadget!]

    Why Bad Soups Happen To Good People [Plus: My Newest Kitchen Gadget!]

    Usually I put the name of the dish I’m writing about in the title of the post, but if I were to do that here you’d probably say: “Ummm, Adam, it’s Butternut Squash and Italian Sausage Soup. That’s gross. Of course it’s nasty.” And, inevitably, if I linked to it you’d discover its source: Emeril…