Preparing Winter Squash

 

All winter squashes bake well. Steaming works for cut pieces. Most varieties have a sweet, buttery, firm flesh and can be substituted for one another in recipes, with the exception of spaghetti squash. Acorn squash is good for baking and goes well with sweet, nutty or spicy stuffing. I cook my Spaghetti squash in a pan of water about 45 minutes. I take the seeds out and fill with sausage, cheese and black beans. This year I grew pumpkins. The chickens ate all but one, That one pumpkin I baked in the oven and then seeded and skinned to prepare pulp. I then followed my favorite pumpkin pie recipe. The pie was absolutely delicious. With hardly any work.