Recipe: Winter Squash Pasta Sauce!
Looking for something to do with that winter squash you roasted? Why not a creamy, indulgent pasta sauce?
I roasted a huge butternut squash today, and made this pasta with just a fraction of it! I will probably make a soup with the rest of it. I love a good butternut squash curry soup when it’s chilly outside.
I have returned from SLICE 2025, where I had a marvelous time with old friends, met some new friends, and sold a lot of books! I also picked up this adorable minicomic by Aayesha Ejaz when I was at Betty’s Books, a lovely comics shop in Webster Groves. I’m starting to amass a neat little collection of different recipe minicomics and zines! If you know of a foodie comic or zine I should pick up, let me know!
Upcoming Things:
October 24: THIS FRIDAY! I’ll be in Madison speaking at the Wisconsin Book Festival in conversation with Ian Gurfield of Ian’s Pizza!
December 6: I’ll be speaking on a few panels and selling books at Sulzer Regional Library in Chicago!
⭐Chicago Scene Report:⭐
I wasn’t able to attend the weekend’s protests because I was exhibiting at SLICE, but it sounds like maybe 250,000 or more Chicagoans showed up to exercise their freedom of speech and assembly. And that’s just the downtown event; there were dozens of other protests in other neighborhoods and in the suburbs. The administration has responded in a predictably ugly way, of course.
The good news is, even outside of the protests, everyone I know is doing SOMETHING. I have friends volunteering as escorts for school pick up and drop off to protect school kids and their parents. I have friends doing food bank deliveries for people too afraid to get food for their families. We were at a bar last night where a local radio station was giving out free whistles! And I have friends hosting and attending rapid response training and education sessions. Chicago is really coming together in an amazing way.
What I’m into lately:
I’ve been listening to the audiobook for Just Like Mother by Anne Heltzel. It’s pretty eerie and disturbing (and unfortunately timely) so far, with great characters and excellent writing.
What Toki’s into lately:
Toki doesn’t want to alarm you, but there! is! a! bird! outside! How dare!! How very dare!!
