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November 8, 2005
I Love Pumpkin!
Thanks to Zeynep for a delicious sounding pumpkin recipe! I must make it while pumpkin is still in season. I love all the ingredients, so I'm sure I'd love them together. Do you eat spaghetti squash where you are? I do love squashes of all sorts.
I've also been thinking about a way to make a pumpkin dessert with no added sugar. Last year I tried to make a frozen pumpkin pie with vanilla yogurt, and it wasn't good. Reader suggestions?
Meanwhile, I've had a good few food days. I've been eating my quotidian diet, which I find yummy and satisfying. Thanks to the making of CR vows each morning and meditating on them, I've resisted appetizer plates at Applebees, bread samples at Panera, and jujubees at my mom's house. It wasn't easy yesterday when I watched nurses eating fried mozarella (yes, they even fry cheese in America), nachos, and artichoke spinich and sour cream dip. But I did it, and I was glad. Eating high calorie, saturated fat filled food now leaves me with a feeling a lot like a hangover. It's not worth it!
Off to assemble dinner. Tonight I'm making MR some Asian vegetables in a creamy mushroom sauce with Asian mushrooms, baked apples topped with hazelnut oil for dessert.
Keep those recipes coming!
Posted by april at November 8, 2005 4:37 PM
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God I am sucker for mozzarella sticks and artichoke and spinach dip, who can't like them?
I am trying to stay away.
Here we go, on with pumkins April... We the spring children love the fall, don't we? (I was born in April and my other name is april in Turkish, Nisan).
I also have a pumpkin dessert recipe, I guess you can make it with molasses instead of sugar. Here we go...
Boil half a pumpkin in a liter of water...Add one cube of brown sugar to the boiling water...
In a seperate bowl, mix 4 spoonfuls of molasses, one glass of fatfree milk and like four chopped walnuts... Once the pumpkins look like they're done, take them out and add the sauce with molasses, milk and walnuts to them... Let them cool for a couple of minutes if you have the patience... Delicious.. Actually, the only dessert I like... And healthy too... (If you want to make it slightly unhealthy, add some vanilla ,ice cream.)
Posted by: zeynep at November 8, 2005 6:38 PM
I imagine this should work with pumpkin instead of sweetpotato:
http://recipes.calorierestriction.org/r.view?r=246&_mode=details
Posted by: Anonymous at November 9, 2005 10:51 AM