It’s funny how you grow into food. As a kid I reviled squash in all its incarnations, but now Laksh and I eat it often. A tender, sweet butternut squash (often just called pumpkin in the UK) is excellent in soups and curries, or even roasted and served as the center of a meal as in this recipe from The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater. Incidentally, The Kitchen Diaries is one of our absolute favorites; Nigel’s recipes are simple, seasonal, delicious, and inspiring. While he pitches this as a warming winter dish, to me tomatoes are the epitome of summer, and with the weather we’ve been having we were pleased to find both in our organic box delivery this week.

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