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.

Comments

[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!

[selidor]

I kept checking and it kept cooking. It was like Cucurbita scheherazade.
Grief, my baking-for-birthday cake did that last night. (Pearl barley and blackberries. Would make again. Often.) Sleep becomes weirdly optional.

Methinks sweet potato and pomegranate molasses.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Oh, goodness, it's today, isn't it? Happy Thanksgiving!

Sweet potatoes and coconut milk and chipotles sounds good, as does sweet potatoes and coconut milk and maple syrup: but you could try all four, and then I wouldn't have to.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

I think you'll do well. (Impressed by your Orion lights; wow.)

Have a good Thanksgiving.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I have often said this to Americans at Thanksgiving -- sweet potatoes are very nice boiled and mashed with butter and black pepper.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I am thankful for your good year. May this to come to bring you health and happiness.

Hope there are clementines!

Nine

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your three o'clock pie, and Happy Thanksgiving! I found you a couple of screen-shots from Cash on Demand (http://handful-ofdust.tumblr.com/post/36282106533/mudwerks-via-13-cash-on-demand-pay-up-or). Plus the cutest pic of Peter and Helen Cushing ever (http://handful-ofdust.tumblr.com/post/36282263762/madameerica-helen-and-peter-cushing-peter) and a creepy Norwegian fairytale (http://worldoftales.com/European_folktales/Norwegian_folktale_3.html). I mean, nice ending for Prince Lindworm and the peasant girl, but I'd have serious qualms about the fact that I knew my husband had eaten two whole other ladies.

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

I also had a pie that just would not bake - it took about 20 minutes more than the recipe indicated.
Happy Thanksgiving - sweet potatoes with coconut and chipotles sounds wonderful..

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I do like the notion of a squash that's expert in delaying tactics.

Chipotles and coconut milk sound very promising together!

I love that you share the things that you're thankful for. I enjoy them too. Your happiness is a wonderful thing.

[gwynnega]

Happy Thanksgiving. Coconut milk and chipotles in sweet potatoes sounds good.

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Through your words every experience feels richer.

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.