Friday night Smokey and I went to a fund-raising dinner (For the love of all that is food, kat, is that all you ever do? Yes. Shut up.) This one was to help the Natural Alternatives food coop in Luck raise enough money to restore the brickwork on their building, which is apparently disintegrating.
Anyway.
No photos of the dinner -- I was too busy eating. The menu was almost all organic and/or free range: squash, barbecued chicken, herbed chicken, skin-on potatoes, coleslaw, mixed greens, and, once again, a panoply of homemade desserts that would put Nigella/Martha/Wolfgang Puck to shame. Although all the food was excellent, it was the squash that took the prize. I took a bite and gasped! it was so good. Smokey, who doesn't much like squash and who wouldn't have taken any if he had been allowed to serve himself, said, upon tasting it: Wow, this is good. We tried to decipher the flavors -- I thought I detected some bacon; Smokey thought lard; another person wondered if there was some coconut in it. It was savory and vaguely sweet and totally yummy. Several of us said we could make an entire meal of it. By happy chance I turned out to be sitting next to the woman who had made it, and she happily shared the recipe (as she remembered it). Not exactly health food but oh! so good.
Baked squash
2 cups squash, mashed
1/2 mayonnaise (NOT Miracle Whip!)
1/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup bread crumbs
1/4 - 1/2 cup grated cheese
Topping = more bread crumbs and butter.
I didn't bother to get the assembly/baking instructions so we are all on our own there.
There was also a silent auction and bake sale. Look what came home with us:
That pie, when entire, weighed something over four pounds. And it was still warm. Mmmm. Ten bucks well spent.
As we were leaving Smokey commented that he quite liked this kind of fund raiser. All you have to do to support their cause is eat.
