Cucumber, Vigilante de Partie

Cannery Row

After a cool hiatus, those crazy kids at [Cucumber](http://eggbeater.typepad.com/cucumber) have posted again. The blog is written by Persimmon, the everyman BOH (Back of House), which is to say any and every line cook, dishwasher and prep guy; not the boss, for sure.

Check it out.

Listening: “Scraping the Barrel/Fielding’s Possum/Take the Tunnel” [Shooglenifty](http://www.shoogle.com/) The Arms Dealer’s Daughter

Way to Go Eggbeater

Shuna is a god. She posted almost every day last week. I am so lame.

I’m working all week, so things have slowed down in one sense, but the Holiday Party is Monday, so all hell has broken loose in another. Tomorrow night I shop: look out Fairway.

The apartment is still littered with squashes, which are hardly Christmas-y, so we’ll be eating a lot of pumpkin this week. Tonight we had pumpkin curry with red carrots and some radicchio trevisano. The curry was from a jar, a little too spicy and not enough spice, if you take my meaning. Let’s just say I realize using the jar is an abomination, and as abominations go, this was a big one. We doctored it up a bit with salt and some coconut milk and served it over rice.

Sounds like a bizarre combination of vegetables, and it is. How did we arrive at it? We cleaned out the fridge after a week away, and that’s what there was. Even so, pumpkin and carrots are great together, although onions, as always, were sorely missed.

I’ll be reading up on my [Madhur Jaffrey](http://www.ahitoziti.com/chef/Madhur_Jaffrey) this week. (In case you aren’t aware, in addition to being a divine cook and author, she is also a gifted actress, and I did [a show](http://www.ibdb.com/production.asp?ID=13541) with her once.) I need to atone for my jar.

Listening: **Brave Combo** Musical Varieties *Skokkian*