Cute food

[tylik]

Miniature pumpkins (these are the real pumpkins, not the pumpkin looking gourds -- which would be edible if they weren't varnished) stuffed with a shaggy mane risotto. Really worked to intensify the taste of the risotto this time, as it doesn't always manage to stand up to the sweetness of the pumpkin... have high hopes, but at the moment I make this dish largely because it's cute. Makes me think I should make it for kids or something, though they would have to be substantially non picky eaters.

[Coming back later, after dinner]

Oh, that did work. The trick seems to be to use lots of mushrooms, spike liberally with marsala and garlic, and make sure it's salty enough to contrast with the sweetness of the pumpkin flesh. (The parmasean didn't hurt.)

The whole meal (which I include because it is collectively cute):

Risotto stuffed pumpkins
Red lentil vegetable soup (with crusty home made bread to dip in it)
White corn on the cob
Unpasturized, unfiltered apple cider from Minea Farms

I think I'm ready for October, now.