{"id":7514,"date":"2009-08-07T11:03:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T15:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/?p=7514"},"modified":"2009-08-07T16:11:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T20:11:22","slug":"august-6th-2009-find-comfort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/2009\/08\/august-6th-2009-find-comfort\/","title":{"rendered":"August 6th, 2009: Find Comfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys! Just a quickie recap of dinner last night.\u00a0 I was pooped, but you know I wanted nothing more than to cook in my kitchen and make a fabbo meal.\u00a0 When I&#8217;m super tired I run towards comfort foods.\u00a0 Being tired and worn out is what sends me to comfort food land.\u00a0 Not sadness, or stress, or being overwhelmed with projects.\u00a0 It&#8217;s being dog-ass tired.\u00a0\u00a0 What makes you reach for comfort foods?<\/p>\n<p>One of my new favorite comfort foods I make is my pumpkin pasta which is cheesy creamy goodness and loaded with veggies.\u00a0 Sometimes I call it pumpkin mac&#8217;n cheese.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going back and forth on names because I can&#8217;t fully decide what to call it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7518\" title=\"Pumpkin pasta \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin pasta \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you tell which side is Scott&#8217;s? <img src='\/images\/wink.gif' alt=';)' \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta2.jpg\" data-rel=\"attachment-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7519\" title=\"Pumpkin pasta \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin pasta \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_pasta2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Creamy pumpkin made the sauce that I thinned out with a bit of chicken stock.\u00a0 You can totally use veggie, wine, or even mushroom stock to thin it.\u00a0 I just prefer chicken.\u00a0 Veggies include!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sundried tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>Artichoke<\/li>\n<li>Carrots<\/li>\n<li>Onion<\/li>\n<li>Zucchini<\/li>\n<li>Chopped spinach<\/li>\n<li>Roasted garlic chicken sausage<\/li>\n<li>Topped with really good quality cheddar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7517\" title=\"Pumpkin pasta \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_dinner-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin pasta \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_dinner-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_dinner.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holy delicious, right?\u00a0 Whole wheat penne is the pasta of choice for me.\u00a0 It holds sauce really well and I just prefer it over an elbow or rotini.<\/p>\n<p>Scott and I watched some Kathy Griffin and sipped on some wine:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7521\" title=\"Red wine \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_wine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Red wine \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_wine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_wine.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We had this leftover from our trip!\u00a0 It was a blend wine from Spain.\u00a0 And then I got out a munchie just because.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7520\" title=\"Popcorn \" src=\"http:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_popcorn-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Popcorn \" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_popcorn-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ohc-08-06-09_popcorn.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Popcorn!\u00a0 Perfect light snack for the evening.\u00a0 I conked out in bed by 10:30! <img src='\/images\/woohoo.gif' alt=':woohoo:' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi guys! Just a quickie recap of dinner last night.\u00a0 I was pooped, but you know I wanted nothing more than to cook in my kitchen and make a fabbo meal.\u00a0 When I&#8217;m super tired I run towards comfort foods.\u00a0 Being tired and worn out is what sends me to comfort food land.\u00a0 Not sadness, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4KYWa-1Xc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodembrace.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}