kabocha mileage

Let me tell you. For one person, one kabocha squash lasts many many meals. Roast it whole on a Sunday. Then scoop out flesh and eat throughout the week.

breakfast

Several breakfasts can be coaxed out of a kabocha squash stuffing...bread pudding hybrid...thing. Basically just caramelized onions, kabocha, bleu cheese, and freezer reserve sourdough. Drizzled with balsamic and sprinkled with red pepper flakes.

dinner

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Creamy and thick garlicky kabocha and miso sauce with spaghetti and peas. For fika in the dark with Joyce. By the way, gin + Golden Road Fruit Cart cucumber lime seltzer + lime juice + a bit of simple syrup = refreshing cocktail.

dessert

One morning, I woke up with the urge to make these brioche donuts.

But modified to add some kabocha for bright orange babies.

kabocha brioche donuts

7g instant yeast

a little less than 1/4c sugar
1/2c water
1/2c kabocha puree
4 eggs
2t salt
4 c flour

1t ras el hanout
1/2 c butter

-add all ingredients except butter into mixer with dough hook and mix until dough comes together and passes the window pane test

-beat in butter one cube at a time

-let rise until doubled

-decide you don't want to wait overnight as recipe instructs... I rolled out the dough and cut rounds but maybe don't do this because some of the bebes ended up with these domed tops:

-let rise another 1-2hr

-fry in 350F oil

-glaze the sweets with miso balsamic caramel

-fill the savories with cotija + scallion cream and toss in a salt/sugar/ras el hanout mixture

late night snack

Kabocha + cotija + egg... tortilla. I called this a huevodilla because it was the egg and not the cheese that held it together.