September 5th, 2011
Magazine Mondays: Smothered Squash
The reappearance of the beautiful Plum Blossom dish set!
I have a subscription to Bon Appétit Magazine, purchased to support The Grump’s kids’ school fundraiser. Usually I don’t buy magazine subscriptions because I can usually find what I want from them online and it’s just more stuff laying around our tiny apartment, but this was for a good cause. And I’m glad I did because I really get excited to find my monthly magazine in the mail!
But July did not hold that excitement for me. My August issue did not come the third week of July like it usually does. So halfway through August, when it still had not arrived, I called customer service and they told me that they would send a new one but I wouldn’t get it until…pretty much right before my September issue was due.
Travesty! What is a gal with a penchant for cooking relatively seasonal food to do? Dig up the August 2004 issue of Gourmet that I had buried with all my old magazines. I keep them until I’ve tried every recipe that looks good, which I can’t seem to do in one month, and when the next issue comes, I just put the old one away for later. This is why my Magazine Monday posts are usually from old (or very old) magazines.