The Low Down

The human body is a metabolic marvel comprised of dozens of little systems connecting to create one complex system. Food is the fuel, the input, for the systems. Our metabolic machinery evolved over hundreds of thousands of years to function optimally on select fuels. These fuels were the original, Primal foods of the human organism. Over these hundreds of thousands of years our Big Game Hunting, small prey capturing, scavenging, foraging, gathering, opportunistic ancestors accumulated experience and wisdom about nourishing themselves. The learned to preserve and predigest foods to maximize the quality of their metabolic fuel. Eventually they learned to cook foods without destroying the important nourishing properties of the food, and then they learned to heal the human body with food. Only recently in the human evolutionary experience, have we abandoned all these hundreds of thousands of years of accumulated epicurean genius. Now we fuel our marvelous, complex metabolic machinery with crap invented to create profits for agribusiness. We have become dumb eaters. As we regain our eating intelligence it doesn't make sense to move back to the savannah and put out our fires or climb into our cave and pretend there is a glacier next door. It makes sense to fuel our bodies with all the primal human foodstuffs, prepared and preserved with accumulated ancestral wisdom and served up for the undeniable desires of the human taste buds. Primal, paleolithic food choices, handled according to ancient food ways resulting in outrageously good food.
PRIMAL. SMART. DELECTABLE.

Friday, February 5, 2010

Are they for holiday decorations?





There is a certain time of year (just before Thanksgiving) when people actually look at the mountain of winter/hard squashes in the grocery store and maybe even buy them to cook. After that squash-centered holiday the winter squashes get passed by pretty regularly as if maybe they aren't really food just ornamental. I sometimes find myself looking at them thinking "too much time and work". What a dumb thing to think. I cooked one up yesterday and it was the best no attention required sort of vegetable ever. Not to mention cheap because no one else wants to buy them! I used a butternut. Chopped it in half, did not take the seeds out and put it cut side down on a buttered tray at 400 for about an hour. I completely ignored it. After an hour I turned the oven off and still ignored it. When I wasn't busy I scooped the seeds out and then scooped all the soft flesh into a bowl, sprinkled in a little nutmeg and ginger and salt and mashed it up.

We had it with salmon cooked in paprika/thyme butter (melt butter, add Hungarian paprika and thyme) and mushrooms cooked in butter, rosemary, garlic and onions.
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  1. Nae NaeFebruary 5, 2010 at 8:10 AM

    yeah.. i cut up a butternut squash last night, threw it in the oven and forgot about it.. for about 2.5 hrs! lol it was a little sad when i took it out but the flesh was still good so i'll probably eat it tomorrow

    :)Renee

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  2. UnknownFebruary 5, 2010 at 7:51 PM

    uh...I just drooled on my keyboard...

    Good idea- I'll try it!

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