So, in Ralph's evaluation, I'm an A+ cook, "Sister Darcie, even when you're not home I can smell the cooking from your kitchen . . . and I think, she's that kind of cook, even when she's not cookin it smells like cookin!"
Last week a friend gave me a pile of collard greens- I cooked and served them up. "How are the collards, Ralph?"
He tells me, "mmm, just like my sister made!"
Tatume squash, that's what I have growing in my front yard. I planted it because the picture on the seed package looks like the squash that grows in the corn fields in Mexico. Indeed, the vine ingulfs everything; I carefully lift the vine while John mows.
Yesterday I sliced and sauteed Tatume squash; after dinner I overheard Ralph on the phone,
"How does sister Darcie make squash so good?. . .her squash tastes like candy."
3 comments:
How awesome. I have never seen that kind of squash before. Sounds (and looks) yummy.
I love your stories! Ralph's comment reminds of Malachai's some years ago when he said that "Brown rice tastes like rice candy!" Something like that...
anyway. I agree with Ralph's assessment of your cooking, and wish I could stop by for dinner one of these days!
So that is what it is called, and all these years I thought just calabacita.
You know calabacita con pollo, calabacita con puerco.
Hmmm I think We definitely need to have you teach a cooking class.
My home is always available.
Ralph is certainly going to experience some gastronomical delights. If that isn't a word it should be one!!
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