The ebb and the flood clearing all the channels of your heart

[sovay]

I am often awake at three in the morning, but I am awake at three in the morning tonight because of a pumpkin pie that needed fifteen minutes past its baking time and then another fifteen minutes after that. I kept checking and it kept cooking. It was like Cucurbita scheherazade. It is now cooling on the kitchen counter underneath the lights in the shape and colors of Orion and will be served tomorrow, along with the two apple pies I baked earlier tonight. In past years I have specialized in complicated side dishes, but this year it's just going to be a butternut squash gratin and whatever I figure out to do with the sweet potatoes when I get up—I am thinking there's no reason coconut milk and chipotles can't go together, although I suspect I cannot quite treat them like a curry. I cannot tell if maple syrup would be an inspiration or a disaster. I may just try it and see.

There are things I am thankful for this year. I think I talk about them a lot. I think that's important.

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[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Cucurbita scheherazade sounds an interesting species. I wonder what Linnaeus would have thought? I hope it's tasty to justify its cooking time.

I'm up because I realised I needed to put the turkey in the brine, and then I thought I might as well try to increase my word count.

I should think coconut milk and chipotles would work.

I've for years done sweet potatoes in coconut cream with allspice, grated dried ginger, and a substantial splash of whatever hot pepper sauce was handy at the moment, and tried it a few times with coconut milk because my source, some chef that one of the NPR shows talked to, referred to both over the course of the interview. If memory serves, the coconut milk tended to separate in the oven, or at least got a grey look to it, but the result was still good; I think I ended up using the mixer to make it into a mashed sweet potato dish.

Good luck, whether you try the maple syrup or not.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

[sovay]

If memory serves, the coconut milk tended to separate in the oven, or at least got a grey look to it, but the result was still good; I think I ended up using the mixer to make it into a mashed sweet potato dish.

I didn't re-bake it after adding the coconut milk: it was just puréed and served instantly, which seemed to work for everyone.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!

Thank you! Likewise. It was.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I didn't re-bake it after adding the coconut milk: it was just puréed and served instantly, which seemed to work for everyone.

That sounds effective. Mine are peeled, chunked, and cooked in the liquid-coconut product. I might try your method of baking them and then puréeing, sometime.

Likewise. It was.

Thank you! I'm glad of that. It was a good one here as well.