Roast Apple, Onion, Celery with Goat Cheese and Raisins

Roast Apple, Onion, Celery with Goat Cheese and Raisins

One week, I went to the store intending to make some recipe I’d found involving stuffing an acorn squash with apple and onion. However, I couldn’t find any good, large, acorn squash at the store. Since I’d already grabbed the apple and onion, I decided to grab some celery as well and make a sort of… stuffing-ish dish, inspired by a Thanksgiving stuffing recipe I’d been looking at recently.

Despite the lack of bread (and since I’m gluten free right now, that’s no coincidence), it really does seem reminiscent of stuffing.

Other than the raisins, it’s also a delicious dish that’s low in histamine and tyramine, which is important for my diet. Raisins are on the no-no list for both histamine and tyramine, but I find a few are ok for me. You can skip the raisins and it’d still be quite good, since the apples still lend it a lot of sweetness.

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Tamarind-Garlic Mashed Potatoes

A Special 2nd Anniversary Blog Entry by Hubby-Face

(2nd Anniversary of our marriage, not this blog…)

The best mashed potatoes ever madeHello, world. Or, to be more precise: Hi, moms. This is The Husband writing; because Jackie loved my recent mashed potatoes experiment so much, she demanded politely and lovingly requested that I write a blog entry on Rarely Fancy all about ‘em.

Firstly, some shout-outs: this recipe would not have been possible without our (early) anniversary gift from my folks: a Good GripTM masher from OXO. I also learned all I know (and some I don’t consciously know, but have absorbed via osmosis) about spuds from the master chef, my old man. So, doubly thanks, Pops.

Pot o' delicious mashed potatoesI noticed when I made “mashed” the last time (a variety so full o’dill, I quipped: “You ain’t seen this much Dill since The Rugrats, baby”) that my wife loved it with sour cream. So, this time, in lieu of sour cream, and perhaps fulfilling the subtitle of this blog more than the title, I attempted a purely original and exotic concoction that contains the combined creaminess, bite, and sourness of this combo. Let’s just say: I hit it out of the park.

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