Comfort food, or Sneal Young

I already have butterflies for tomorrow's trip!  I love to fly, but I get very nervous when it comes to matters of scheduling (trains, buses, connections, boyfriends that get distracted by pictures of GUITARS!!!!!!!!, security and so on).  Tonight, I made a one-dish sneal to calm my stomach.

What's a sneal?  It's the lovebaby of a snack and a meal, of course!  Good when when you have no appetite but know you should eat something.  Bonus points if it involves a comfort food.  I used squash to coax my nervous tummy get excited.

The squash sneal.

with water, of course!

We got a cute little delicata squash in this week's CSA, so I (very! carefully!) cut it in half lengthwise.  I rubbed the inside of one half with olive oil and sprinkled with salt, pepper and cayenne.  I rubbed the inside of the other half with coconut oil and filled with a glug glug of maple syrup.  One savory, one sweet.  That's the way to go!  I roasted them on tin toil - with the seeds alongside - in a 400 degree oven for an hour.

I love you, sneal.

sweetie.

savorie.

all together now!

I was surprised at how delicious this was, especially the sweetie.

In case you couldn't tell, I played with contrast, brightness and saturation today.  Because that plate is bluer than blue, it's blue! blue in real life, and I was going to convey that, by jove.

See you on the flip side!  I'm off to look at pictures of Sneal Patrick Harris!*





*not really. I'm going to shower, pack and make scuffins for da flight.