I love raiding Ben’s mom’s cookbook shelf. My latest acquisition was this book and its recipe for “Pizza Pasta”, which I knew Ben would want to try. Those are peppers, onions, garlic, mushrooms, olives and tomatoes simmering in a splash of wine, dried oregano+basil+thyme and olive oil - so easy! Ben enjoyed it, especially with fontina on top.

My amazing friend Jenn brought some butternut squash ravioli from Sunrise Creative Gourmet, so I didn’t try the pizza pasta (note to self: eat more ravioli). But it reminded me of my mom’s puttanesca recipe, so that’s definitely in the plan for next week.

I realize that I haven’t been taking pictures of my food lately. But yes, I have been cooking. Things like:
- fresh pasta cooked in red wine, tossed with fried garlic, olive oil, chili flakes and steamed broccoli (from here) side note: if you cook in three buck chuck, it will taste like three buck chuck.
- chorizo and tortilla stacks (from this book by Lorna Sass)
- caldo verde but with rice instead of potatoes (from the same Lorna Sass book)
- Ethiopian-style chicken for Mashben
- Yellow curry soup with kale, shiitake, scallions, tomatoes and fat rice noodles (like a less watered-down version of my Noodles & Company fave)
- Tollhouse cookies

Yup, I think I’m doing a great job on fattening up for winter.