I'm back at home and I've not caught up on egullet yet, but this is last night's dinner. The star of the show was roasted stuffed acorn squash.
The squash stuffing was made of rice, shredded bread, pecans, fresh shitake, carmelized onion, shredded carrot, apple, golden raisins, currants, mushroom powder, paprika, cayenne, boiled apple cider (concentrate) and apple juice. Recipe here.
Accompanied by roast duck in the Romertopf at 400F for 90 minutes. While I was away I roasted duck in a plain casserole dish with some liquid; duck ended up quite chewy. Last night's erred at the other end, literally falling apart; I liked it much better.
Dessert was buttermilk biscuits (my first biscuits) with strawberries (the last from my farmers' market for this year 😟), whipped cream, and goat's milk butter pecan gelato. No photos, alas!