Seasonal Food

Pumpkin Spice Butternut Squash Pecan Pie Zucchini Salad...

There's nothing like food when it's in season.  Olathe corn on the cob, Flathead cherries, California blackberries and grapes.   Oregon blueberries.  Montana huckleberries...

But that's not what this post is about.

This post is to complain about over hyping whatever season we're in!  

So, it's Autumn.. it's time for EVERYTHING to be made out of butternut squash, or taste like pumpkin spice.   Give it a rest already.

No, I don't think "pumpkin spice" anything has pumpkin in it.  It's the SPICE, people.  It tastes like pumpkin pie, which I"m not really crazy about.  Give me pumpkin cake or cookies, maybe muffins.... 

In the summer ,it was all about what to do with your over abundance of zucchini.  I had to go to three stores to find zucchini this year, and at $1.49 a pound, it doesn't seem like there was an over abundance.  I don't grow tomatoes, either.  Possibly because I don't really like tomatoes, not more than an occasional slice on a BLT.

Soon it will be the holiday season, and every restaurant and most of the cooking sites will have photos of pecan pie.  OMG, am I the only person who thinks that looks like it's crawling with BUGS?   Give me Christmas cookies any day.

.....(toddles off to find a pumpkin muffin recipe)