inquiring minds want to know...well, rather a lot this morning, actually.

[qe2]

1) Food query: This week's CSA installment included a small pumpkin. (By "small" I mean "about the size of a child's bowling ball".) The pumpkin is very cute, and another person might possibly use it for, say, a centerpiece. I don't decorate with food, however - not since that incident with the exploding blender, anyway - and I would prefer to make

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[thefourthvine]

You look set on the pumpkin, but if you want more recipes, I have loads of pumpkin soup and pumpkin pasta ones, including some quick and easy stuff. (All vegetarian, since I do not know from cooking with meat, and many of them swiped from the great bible of vegetarian cooking.)

For the friends-only post, I'm pretty sure you either use a journal style that lets you do a text thingy at the top or (more commonly) you post something with a date waaaaaay in the future. And you know about LJSec, right? Because that's the easiest way I know of to change all your old posts over, if you want to do that.

[qe2]

I will take any recipes you can give me, darlin', and welcome them v. much, not only because they are from you but because they are vegetarian, which I am as well.

Date waaaaay in the future sounded right, but I wasn't sure and didn't feel like trolling through LJ's increasingly user-confusing interface to find the how-to there.

I do not know about LJSec. Please to enlighten me?

Pumpkin Pasta

[thefourthvine]

Oh, man, now I'm kind of bummed. I was all excited because if you're a vegetarian and you're in a CSA (I am, and we are), then there's this cookbook you should really have, and I thought I could send it to you. And it's OUT OF PRINT. That is so wrong. But if you get a chance, ever, pick up a copy of The Passionate Vegetarian, by Crescent Dragonwagon (I know, I know). Her recipes are awesome (I seriously have never had a disappointing meal from her book, and even though I'm kind of a not-recipe-following cook - I tend to modify on the fly a lot - I use her actual recipes more than any other book), she's health conscious without being excessive about it or sacrificing taste to it, her writing is surprisingly enjoyable, and the book is incredibly useful for people who never really know what produce they're going to have in any given week. There are whole sections for most vegetables and fruits, and there are so many recipes in here that you can almost always find something to do with the random stuff from your box

Re: Pumpkin Pasta

[fanofall]

(Psst. It's available on Barnes and Noble's website -- www.bn.com -- and it ships within 24 hours.)

[dubhartach]

I love squash/pumpkin soup.

My favourite is - fry up some onions, garlic, red chilli. Add cubed butternut squash and sweet potatoes. Some thyme and then stock to cover and seasoning. Leave to simmer for about 30 mins, blend. Can serve with olive oil or a swirl of creme fraiche or yogurt.

This is a great post - basics and some gorgeous soups. Her squash and corn soup too.

A basic squash and red pepper soup recipe and one with beans

Also - simple quide to roasting winter squash.

[qe2]

YUM.

You rock. You roll. You generally bring the foodie house down. I drool in your general direction. (...that's meant to be a compliment, though it might not have come out sounding like one.)

Wow. Thank you.

[sprat]

All of your questions seem to have been answered, so I'll just hang around drooling over all the pumpkin recipes. Yummmmmm.

[qe2]

1) I will take your answers to any questions any time you desire to proffer them, darlin'.

2) And actually I don't think the serrated-edge question has been answered. Thoughts?

3) Take recipes at will. I just had a perfectly lovely lunch and I am now, impossibly, hungry all over again. Time for more coffee.

4) *squidges on principle* HIIII!

[vito_excalibur]

My understanding was that serrated-edge knives, unless rilly rilly expensive, are basically disposable, because they are so hard to sharpen.

[sprat]

4) HIIIII, you! *reciprosquidge*

2) I don't know the answer to this one -- I actually haven't encountered a serrated blade that seems to want sharpening. But then, I rarely use them -- just for slicing bread, mostly.

[geekchick]

Mmmm, pumpkin bread.

Re: the friends-only notice, the style I'm using (Expressive) has an option in the customization section under "Custom options -> Text" to create a "sticky post" that will show up at the top of each page. I just tried creating one though and it doesn't seem to have comments enabled. I think simply post-dating an entry should be sufficient.

[watchwhat]

veggie planet at passim makes this deeelicious dish that comes either as a pizza or over rice and consists of pumpkin, goat cheese and carmelized onions. so yummy.