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It sure does have a lot of ingredients. In this case though, you'll have a lot of curry powder left over for other appplications around the kitchen. And, the pesto can be frozen and used for whatever else too. Gnocchi etc. So the initial work (if you can find the time) is well worth it.

Curried Ontairo Squash Soup with Roasted Bananas & Squash Seed Pesto

Saw the chicken stock and had to experiment

1 Ontario Squash (butternut, butter cup etc) peeled, and cubed. Reserve seeds, then soak seeds in water and drain

2 bananas

1 can thick coconut milk

1 large bedalia or spanish onion, chopped

1 carrot, peeled and chopped

2 tsp curry powder (if ou want to make your own, there is a recipe at the end)

3 cups Ms. Hux Chicken Stock

coarse salt and pepper

1 Tbsp brown sugar

2 Tbsp olive oil

2 cloves garlic

Preheat oven to 380F. Toss chopped squash with oil, salt, pepper and sugar. Place on tray with bananas (unpeeled) and raost until tender. Saute onion and carrot until soft and add garlic. Add roasted squash and banana pulp (what's left inside peels once cooled), stir in curry powder. Add stock and cocnut milk. Bring up to a boil stirring occasionally. Puree

Pesto

1 bunch basil (1 cup"ish")

3 cloves garlic

1/4 cup veg oil

1/4 cup olive oil

1/3 cup (about what would be reserved from squash) squash seeds toasted (in oven or in dry pan)

coarse salt and pepper

1/4 parmesan cheese

pinch fresh or grated nutmeg

Triple wash basil and remove stems. In a food processor place basil, garlic and pulse. Turn machine on full and gradually add oils one at a time to emulsify. Stop machine and add seeds salt and pepper (to taste), cheese and nutmeg. Pulse to blend.

Pour soup into serving bowls and top with pesto. Garnish, however the f you want.

Curry Powder (Ho'made bitches)

1/2 cup corriander seed

1/4 cup cumin seed

2 Tbsp black mustard sed

2 Tbsp black peppercorns

1 Tbsp fennel (anise) seed

1/2 tsp cloves, ground

1/4 garam masala (indian shops )

1/4 cup turmeric (personnally I f'in hate this stuff, it tastes like shit but it has curcumin which has many anti-oxidents and........it's pretty essential in true homemade Indian cuisine.

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Lightly toast corriander, cumin, mustard, pepper, fennel and clove in a dry pan until aromatic. Grind in coffee grinder (That's a bud buster for the wookies out there) Mix with the rest of ingredients and store in an air tight container.

Have fun with this one Bouche! a a lot of work it seems, but it'll really impress the in-laws!

perhaps you would like to come work with me. how do you find the time to do this board, see shows and come up with these culinary idaes? I had to give up the touring (bands all together for that matter), and 95% of my weekends for cooking. congrats sir, you live the life I wish I could figure out!

sweet shite! let me know how she goes

4-6 to ppl would be about correct

i've always been under the impression that soup should never boil. simmer good, boil bad

sounds like a good recipe though mikey...

Don't boil a stock when you are making it from scratch, especially consomme. Soup okay though. But if it's got dairy or a roux, obviously stay over top of it. A trick I use is instead of making a roux at the beginning of the soup's prep and being a slave to the soup for the rest of the day, try a beurre manie at the end and puree.

So I change the menu at my restaurant seasonally. Due to Ontario's growing seasons and as a dedication to local growers and quality. I thought what better place to try out new things than to place them on the board and have people try them and give me some feed back. (The good, bad and ugly) I should warn though that these quantities are more less (with any recipe I create) guidelines (for consistancy purposes). I don't know about you, and this is why I hate baking, I hate precision. So these are approx. amounts.

Ethiopian Scented Sweet Potato and Peanut Butter Soup

6 cups chicken stock

2 Tbsp butter

2 medium onions, diced

3 garlic cloves, minced

1 tsp chili flakes

2 diced tomatoes

1 cup chopped sweet potatoes, peeled

1 tsp cumin

1 small piece ginger, peeled and minced

1 cinnamon stick

3 cloves, ground

2 cardamom pods

1 ½ cups peanut butter

¼ cup lime juice

Bring stock to a boil and reduce to medium heat. In a skillet melt butter and sauté onion, garlic and chili. Add tomatoes and continue to cook for 5-10 minutes. Add tomato mixture, cumin, sweet potato, cinnamon, ginger and cardamom to stock. Stir in peanut butter and lime juice. Cook until sweet potatoes are tender and purée. Garnish it however the hell you want.

Giver and let me know. Thanks - Jer

My brother, when he goes home always goes for the local paper. He keeps a scrap book of rediculous happenings from the crime section. Very funny stuff

Take your pick:

Little Feat

Sailin' Shoes

Dixie Chicken

Feats Don't Fail Me

Time Loves A Hero

Waiting For Columbus

On a sort of related note.....Waiting For Columbus is in my opinion one of the greatest if not the greatest live records I've ever heard. This could spawn another topic........OFFICIALLY released only......moe. L has some pretty fantastic moments aswell

Freak By Night should actually consider posting a creepier picture of himself. It's creepy, but it's too creepy for me to believe it's actually him. But if it is.......DUDE you're F'n creepy in that pic!

Song: Paradise City

Supergroup:

Hasselhoff

Lead Guitar

Gary Busey

Bass & Lead Vocals

Sadam Hussein

Rhythm Guitar & Backing Vocals

Scott Baio

Drums

Good luck beatin' that sucka's

sorry, that should have read "I'd", uh have the answers

I'm certain that it would not be in the cards to get all bands together. What I was thinking was a webcast from a centralized venue. Maybe booking a couple acts to play at said venue. This is why I posted, if I had the answers......I uh have the answers

Has anyone ever kicked this idea around? Logistically it would be a bit of a nightmare. But I was thinking of collectivly setting up some catergories, a venue (a club were there could be a couple live acts booked for the evening), a voting database and a web cast. Perhaps a couple sponsers. Something to tinker with for early next summer perhaps. I think it would be a blast.

I will use the commencement of my debilitating tobacco addition to get the ball rolling. I am certain though, there are going to be way stupider things. Let the silliness begin…

I went to neroland.com, for old times sake, and to see if there were any Lauzon solo shows up on the tour page. Has anyone been to the message board lately? (Probably not since the last show was 18 months ago). I had no idea they were in bed with so many drug companies? Weird spot.

When they're on (and from my experience that's about 90% of the time) Burt Neilson has some fantastic orignal material. That being said, few bands can also through together a GREAT

cover tune like BNB. (Just ask anybody who saw the Evolve '04 opener or Halloween '01)

Although it's a bit of a cheesey one hit wonder I would love to see Donnie Iris' Ah Leah or The Band's Don't Do It

Back To Me - Kathleen Edwards

Give - The Bad Plus

1. Soulive, Toronto

2. The New Deal, Kingston

3. Pocket Dwellers, Kingston