The Hunger Struck - Confessions of a Food Fanatic.

Ive had a huge butternut squash sitting on my counter for over a month now and I’m so relieved that I was finally able to use it! I was having my doubts, it’s harder than you think to use such an enormous amount of squash in the course of a few days when you are just feeding two people. Little did I know that this was one of the best things I could have done.

I’ve heard all of those theories that squash is better once allowed to ripen for several weeks, even several months but have never bothered to to test that out. For the most part I buy what I’m going to eat in the near future and have never really been a person to think ahead in this way.

This is probably the third time in a week I’ve come home starving and thrown myself into making a meal that requires some time to cook. By the time it’s actually ready to eat, I’m no longer hungry because I’ve consumed every available snack food in my pantry. I started out thinking I was going to make Maple Brown Rice Risotto with Mushrooms and Rosemary and fortunately for me I realized the mistake early and quickly changed to Pilaf before I consumed all of our snacks for the week!

It still took an hour to make but I’m pretty sure that if I had stuck to my original risotto idea, I would still be at the stove adding the 2000th cup of chicken stock to the pan and probably swearing off of cooking forever.