After a sluggish day of working from home and not exercising at ALL (walking down to the grocery store was the closest I got) I cooked yummy pasta from one of my fave cookbooks, Vegetarian Planet . Author Didi Emmons has a great chummy tone and excellent eclectic taste in the dishes she prepares, some of them ones she mentions trying out at her restaurant Cafe Delux in Boston's South End neighborhood (is she still there?? It still is.) Shamed to say, I didn't realize 'til I just googled that she also has a place called Veggie Planet in Cambridge that serves up vegetarian pizza and "meals on rice". The next time I am in Boston (p'rhaps visiting a dear friend who just moved? Or running that damn race again?) I will need to try it out.
The ziti, roasted garlic and squash recipe was worth trying in part because Didi's cat apparently loves it. Quite the oddball--Veggie Planet has a pizza called "Lunch for Henry", the famous feline, that also has butternut squash on it. Who knew a cat could have such distinctive tastes?
Henry knows what he's talking about. After roasting, the garlic is creamy and mellow, and paired with white wine and acorn squash in a simple sauce, this fulfilled my starchy, hearty cravings that haven't gone away during the Vegan Experiment. Check out the recipe in the VE calendar below.
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