I'm becoming quite the male domestic goddess (see what I did there?)

Oh, did I tell you that I'm going to be a good dad because I can totally cook? Well I can. Perhaps you would like to try some of the delicious baked acorn squash with mushroom, onion, mascarpone, emmentaler, and parmesan stuffing? Or perhaps some fried black plantain? Well, too bad, so sad. You should have come to visit.*


Does that look good, or what? Please ignore the bottle of Tylenol, which somehow always ends up in the background of our pictures. But I must say that the recipe that I followed from Molto Mario was supposed to stuff two squash. So I halved it to stuff just one, as Ariane was unsure if she liked squash (how a vegetarian can go 25 years without knowing if she likes squash is beyond me). But after I stuffed the first I had to walk back to the grocery store and buy not one but two more squash, and I still had stuffing left over. Molto Mario: Unfamiliar with weights and measures. Trust me, it tasted better than it looks.


Plus I kind of burned a some of the plantain, but it was still good enough that I will forever be disappointed by the flavor of Cavendish bananas. As a matter of fact, I have another one ripening on my counter right now. Hopefully it'll be black in a week.

Pshaw. Who says I can't feed my baby (starting sometime next year)? If there's one thing I know about children it is that they are not picky and love vegetables, especially green ones.

*Zack