Abundance Soup/Sauce

• 2 cups cubed peeled candy roaster
• 1 cup cubed unpeeled from tart apple
• 1 cup yellow onion crescents
• 3 cloves of peeled garlic
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• Sea salt, fresh black pepper, dash cayenne
• 2 cups water
• Garnish – choose marigold petals, pumpkin seeds, teeny cubes of apple, sage leaves

Preheat oven to 425°F. Toss all the ingredients and spread on a parchment lined baking sheet. Roast until the squash is just brown on the edges, about 30 minutes. BUT check after 20 because the onion or apple may need to be rescued. Puree the roasted goodies with 2 cups of water, adding more water as you like. Garnish. It’s great hot or cold, as a soup or as an easy sauce (over or under) roasted cauliflower, poultry, pasta.

Candy Roaster Blueberry Muffins

Dry Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 tablespoons psyllium husks (optional)
• 1/3 cup sugar 
• 2/3 cup chopped walnuts or pecans

Wet Ingredients:

• 1 cup mashed roasted candy roaster
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup butter, melted
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• Zest of 1 lemon or 1/2 orange

• 1 cup fresh blueberries (or cranberries)

Preheat oven to 350°F. Insert paper liners in a 12-muffin baking pan. Mix all dry ingredients including nuts in a large bowl. Mix wet ingredients in another. Combine the wet and dry until just mixed. Gently fold in the blueberries. Spoon batter equally into each muffin liner. Bake for 20 minutes or until the muffins are browned. Remove the muffins from the pan and cool 5 minutes on a wire rack. Eat some. Freeze the rest. 

Seared Autumn Moons

Cut of a 6 inch hunk of candy roaster, split it in half longwise, peel, slice into 1/4” crescents. Heat 1 tablespoon ghee in a skillet large enough to hold all the roaster slices. Add 1 cup chopped onion, sauté until its translucent. Add 1 teaspoon curry powder or herbes de provence. Cook a minute and scoot the mixture into a bowl. In the skillet, heat 2 tablespoons of ghee, sear the roaster until it is just caramelized and fork tender, not mushy. Add the onion mixture and heat through. Serve hot.