We eat a lot of squash in the Dahlia/Slanky household (well ok, Mr. J eats a lot of squash and since we have it around so much I’ve been trying to think of more ways to use it for our meals as well) and I’ve noticed that I’m pretty one-note with my uses. I’m wondering if anyone has ways they like their squash. I mostly use pumpkins and butternut squash and I either make soups or I stuff them with some sort of mixture, usually made up of stuff I have around, and bake them. Last night we had acorn squash baked with a concoction of garbanzos, onions, rice, spinach and some spices. It was pretty good but nothing spectacular. Can you get spectacular from squash? Anyway. What say you?
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I am impressed with your use of squash. My mom would just bake it plain. I’ve had it in soups a couple times too. I did have it in a salad at Emory’s and it was super tasty! They had cut up bits of it with onion, Zuchinni, peppers, and fennel bulb. The fennel was the most delicious thing ever.
We eat quite a lot of squash too (when it’s available–it’s gone now until next fall, darn it), mostly because it’s one of the few vegetables the kids will eat, say, %60 of the time. we mostly do pureed butternut squash. add in some butter and brown sugar or maple syrup. i did however make this epicurious recipe a couple of months ago: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Pork-Stew-with-Fennel-and-Butternut-Squash-107648 i had high hopes but did not personally find it to be all that fabulous. good, not great. so i am still waiting on spectacular from squash. well…maybe i take that back. pumpkin pie is pretty darn spectacular. haha! well, it is!
who was it that used spaghetti squash like a pasta and put a sauce over it? for some reason i feel like it was amy. anyway, i’d like to do that sometime, but have not come across spaghetti squash here yet.
we don’t eat a whole lot of squash here – it’s not a favorite of jay’s unless it’s cooked in something. i did recently however bake a red kuri (if i’m remembering correctly) squash which i’d never tried before – i got a fairly small one and it was ‘easy’ to cut before cooking. i cut it into strips and brushed them with olive oil and something else that i can’t remember rite now and even jay thought they were decent. not that exciting, but another kind of sqaush – ?
I’m also not a squash fan. However, I had pumpkin ravioli once that was pretty darn tasty.
I think I’ve had that too. It is in the filling and in the sauce. It was very delish!