Ma Cuisine Numéro Six

I had a great weekend.  I went and met a friend on Friday and hiked around Mount Greylock, and then decided that I really needed to see my best friends - so I went and saw four of my closest friends.  It was VERY needed.  It felt so good sitting around the living room, talking, laughing, having a few drinks.  I felt so happy.  

I came back to NY today feeling more positive about being here.  Not that I was feeling terrible, but I'm feeling better.  I'm taking everything out of this experience here.  I'm not going to put every ounce of energy into Thanksgiving Farm.  I know that sounds weird.  But I'm not putting every ounce of energy into Thanksgiving Farm because I build expectations on the place.  That's a lot of what I did at Gould Farm - and I left very heartbroken.  No, here I'm putting every ounce of my energy in to my job.  I'm going to learn everything I can.  Things are going to happen, but I'm here for myself.  Obviously I'm not going to just go to work and come home.  But the changes that will happen here at The Center and Thanksgiving Farm are nothing that I can control.  What I can control is what I take out of the place.  

Tonight I cooked Balsamic Glazed Butternut Squash Pasta.  The original recipe calls for sweet potatoes, but all I had was a butternut squash.  Delicious!  I cooked up the squash, added balsamic vinaigrette, cooked up some pasta, added it too the squash along with some spinach and kale.  So good!  And so easy! Except peeling the squash was a little annoying...

  This is courtesy of A Farmer In The Dell