First Meal Post!

Maple and brown sugar white acorn squash with baby roasted redskin potatoes.

Apologies for the poor picture quality. It was taken on a camera phone.

I could seriously eat acorn squash every single day. Its so easy. Cut in half, stab with a fork a million times in the flesh, apply a good pat of butter, a good sprinkle of brown sugar, and here's the part I experimented with that you can leave out, LIGHTLY drizzle with maple syrup. The roasted red potatoes are even easier. Quarter them, spray with cooking spray, season how you like (I used Savory, which is like rosemary and sage and thyme and all those) and pop them in the oven. I set the oven to about 400. The squash (unfortunately) needs to cook for about an hour, so don't put the potatoes in until the squash has been in for a half hour already.

The squash is ugly in the picture because I have already "forked" it, which just means I stabbed and scraped the flesh apart from the skin and stirred it up ( you use the skin as a bowl).

Earlier today, for lunch, I decided it was a soup and sandwich day. I live in a suburb of Toledo, and here it was in the 60's today, if not chillier, and pretty cloudy. It was great fall weather, perfect for a soup lunch. I just wish it were sunnier. ANYWHO.

I ended up going to ZOUP!, which is this great little soup shop that's kinda like Panera, but if Panera's main focus is sandwiches, with a few soups, ZOUP! is just the opposite. Thousands of soups rotated daily, and a small sandwich selection. I think they have salads and what-not as well.

Anyways, I got the vegetarian split pea soup, in a bread bowl, with a half of a Cali veggie wrap. I love a good bread bowl, but they didn't dig the cup part out enough, so you had a little soup and a LOT of bread. .......I ate it anyways. Heh.

I highly recommend ZOUP!