Allow me to introduce you to the thing you never knew your life was woefully incomplete without:
CARROT BUTTER.
Carrot butter has been on my to-cook list since the inception of this blog, and I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to bring it to you.
So let me tell you about it: it’s a rich puree of macademia nuts and cooked carrots, sweetened with maple syrup and flavored with vanilla.
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It is quite the orange week around these parts – food-wise, at least. On Monday we had sweet potato salsa, and today we’re making use of my other favorite orange vegetable, butternut squash. Aaaand Friday will bring more squash! I guess I just can’t get enough.
Will I turn orange by the end of the winter? Most likely.
As an aside, orange is actually one of my least favorite colors (except when it comes to food!), but I briefly considered using it in our wedding when we were planning it for October. Mostly because, in addition to loving orange veggies, I apparently love orange flowers. I will say, though, that changing venues and ending up with a September date was quite a relief. Better weather and no need to have any sort of fall theme! I’m one of those girls who has dreamed about her wedding since she was little (ashamed to admit it), and a fall wedding just wasn’t what I’d envisioned. Nix on the orange!
September is quite far away, of course, and in the meantime I will stuff myself with orange foods. Mmmm.
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Betcha didn’t think I’d have a recipe for you today, did ya?
I’m as surprised as anyone. But I’m also happy to be back in the kitchen so I can share some more healthy recipes with you.
I love the holidays, and I definitely feel recharged after taking a nice long vacation and spending time with family. Buuut I have to say I’m also glad to be getting back to my normal routine, a.k.a. not eating my weight in cookies every day of the week. I love eating cookies! But after a while, my body begs for a break.
And if that break comes in the form of chips and salsa? I’ll take it.
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Today I made you some mashed pahsnips.
Pahhhhsnips. That’s me with my Boston accent. I don’t actually have one, but if I did, this would be a fun vegetable for you to hear me pronounce. I pahked the pahsnips in Hahvahd yahd… you know.
Speaking of Boston accents, that is where I am headed at the end of the week! I will be home for Christmas and then for a few days afterward, when my mom and are planning to bang out some major wedding planning. So far my mom has taken care of everything, and – gulp – we booked our venue without me having seen it in person. I can’t wait to see it myself, taste the delicious food they’re going to make us, meet with photographers, etc. Maybe that will make it all seem a little more real! Because right now it still seems like just a reeeeally good dream. A really good dream that is taking over my Pinterest boards.
The wedding may have been occupying the majority of my mindshare lately, but I haven’t forgotten about that upcoming holiday! I even mashed up an exotic root vegetable for you in honor of it.
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I’m going to do that thing again where I talk about the weekend on a Wednesday! Partially because I’m in denial that we’re in the middle of the workweek. And partially because my weekend just ended – we were in Sacramento until Monday night so Nate could run the California International Marathon.
We left for the airport on Saturday morning, but before that, I had aggressive plans to cook and photograph several dishes. Hmm… can you guess how that turned out?
Luckily, we made it to the airport on time. Not so luckily, I completely forgot the garnishes for these photos. Boo.
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