The Uses Of Anger

[crockpotcauldron]

Sometimes, self care is sanding the shit out of a dowel, violently peeling a butternut squash, slashing two large cardboard boxes into strips to make cat scratching boards, and angrily scrubbing the car. I have not run out of anger, but I have accomplished some useful things and tapped off a lot of the restless energy. My cat appreciates the scratcher. Tomorrow holds many thrilling possibilities, such as kneading bread dough, beating the carpets, and using polishing compound on the car. It is a pity I don't live in a climate where I can chop firewood.

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[crockpotcauldron]

Butternut squash has that awful tough rind, so I used to just slam a chef's knife through the squash to turn it into discs, then cut the rind off wedge by wedge with the knife. But my dad discovered that a vegetable peeler (one of the ones with spinning blade bits) can silkily peel the rind off with no strain, so all you have to do is shred the rind off by petting the squash as fiercely as you want, and then bring out the knife to turn it into inch thick discs. Sometimes you have to rock the knife into the squash and then once it is wedged in there lift up the squash using the knife as a handle, and just slam it down on the cutting board a few times until it goes all the way through. Remove the seeds.
From there, arrange flat in a large pot, cover with sugar, snap up a cinnamon stick or two, add a bit of water if the squash wasn't juicy, and cook until soft, resulting in kabak tatlısı, a delicious dessert that can be eaten with milk and crushed walnuts.
I have made milk bread dough, and I completely agree about its therapeutic properties. Soon, the dough will turn into caramel rolls, which is also therapeutic.