Everything FALL

White is the new orange

While the crashing waves and sand between my toes are my favorite, everything about fall is my second favorite! The smells, the spices on my tongue, the sounds, the coziness, the red wine flowing...all my inspirations! Inspirations for what you ask? RECIPES!!! Fall offers an abundance of gorgeous (although oddly shaped), vibrant, hardy produce! I'm a BIG fan of butternut squash and was in the mood for pasta last Sunday so I turned up the Bossa Nova, took a match to my pumpkin spice candle and began getting lost in my farmers market finds...and this is my therapy.

 

Cooking for one is possible people! I get it...why am I going to do all of that just for me...by the time I buy all the ingredients it's going to cost more than take out...Trust me I get it BUT nothing is better than homemade! Call me crazy but I like to know what I'm eating! Food tastes better to me when I pick it out myself, peel it, chop it, drizzle it with my yummy evoo and add a sprinkle of fragrant  herbs.  Roasting veggies is the way to go as it draws out all the natural sugars creating a sweet caramelization in each bite. So my Sunday dinner isn't exactly the Sunday sauce most Italians are slow cooking all day but it brings warmth and comfort to my heart and soul and for this, I cook for one!

 My cooking for one recipes are simple in so many ways! Simple ingredients, simple flavors, simple preparation and simple cooking! SIMPLE! Butternut squash, rosemary, toasted walnuts, pasta (rigatoni), turnip greens, garlic, parm, lemon zest, evoo, S&P! So the recipe is this...Roast the squash at 425 after tossing with evoo, rosemary, S&P (until tender)...toast chopped walnuts, cook pasta, sauté turnip greens with garlic...combine! Drizzle with evoo top with parm, lemon zest, a little more cracked pep and top off your glass with a little or a lot more red. I hope this recipe warms your heart just as it does mine!

I want to live in that Rigatoni surrounded by all that yumminess!

CHEERS!
EmMe & Q