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Land-Baby Dinner
Patty-Pan Squash
Wash, stem and quarter 12 ounces patty pan squash. Boil the pieces for about 6 minutes in a little chicken broth. When they are soft, drain and add salt and pepper to taste. Toss with 2 tablespoons of butter till butter is melted, slide into a serving bowl, sprinkle a handful of chopped parsley over them, and serve.
Serve with Grilled Marinated Lamb, Chickpea Mint Cilantro Salad, Baby Red Potatoes, and Air-Baby Dessert to create the complete Land-Baby dinner for 6.
Chapter Five
...Suddenly another plate appeared in front of Maxine, this one containing two grilled lamb chops, boiled new red potatoes, chickpea-mint salad, and steamed baby squash. The chickpeas looked like round infant heads with cowlicks. So whoever was masterminding this dinner was attempting nothing less than the recreation of the history of evolution of life on earth, from primordial soup to water babies to land babies. She supposed there would be meringue chicks in baklava nests for dessert. She could imagine the cook back there, his breast simultaneously puffed with pride and wracked with despair: no one would understand his brilliant work, no one would apprehend its true meaning, and then it would be gone...
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