Winter Squash

I was outside a small Vietnamese market near my home and snapped the photo below. These are winter melons. I have never seen these monsters before. A lady explained to me that in Vietnam a fami...

by cristina 2 months ago

A week or so ago, a fellow CHer on the Mexico board asked for the recipe for Mexican squash in brown sugar syrup. Here it is. Mari, the woman who spoils me by doing all of my housework, gave me...

I have several pounds of cut up squash (sugar pumpkin and carnival squash) that has been roasted with oil, salt and pepper. What should I do with it BESIDES make a pie? I was thinking savory to s...

I nicked my finger pretty good last night splitting a kabocha squash. Never again! I was foolishly using a 6" chef, but even my 8" chef is not easy to get through kabocha, butternut, acorn, and so ...

I have a food safety question... I cut the top off of a turban squash, and noticed very slight softness on the outside in one area of the top. Inside, that area has dry fluffy white mold growing a...

by bayoucook 8 years ago

PLENTY

by coll 8 years ago

I needed a little vegetable sidedish to go with my turkey dinner so bought one of those cut hunks of Calabaza. I thought it was butternut squash when I saw it, and subsequently figured it must be ...

What type of squash would you say this is? Purchased in Toronto.

We picked this up at our local farmer's market today for $3. It's a good 16" long and 6" thick. The kid in the booth said he *thought* it was a banana squash, sweet, similar to a butternut. I'm thi...

Thinking about roasting it and then adding some sauce...but open to anything delicious...

In 2 weeks, I went from excitement to anxiety. I'm a new gardener, and have always relied on starts from the nursery. We bought a few seed packets last year for direct sow in the garden (peas, ca...

I'm making the Cooks Illustrated classic stuffed bell peppers to take to a family that just welcomed a new baby. I taking it in the morning, and can't go back out tonight. I have 2 acorn squashes....

It is common to see "white part only" for scallions or leeks as an ingredient for a recipe. I, however, try and get as much of the edible-allowed as I can push it: at least a third of the green par...

I made a winter squash soup to serve tomorrow night and it came out thinner than I intended. I may have blended it too much. The recipe (can't find it online) is from Cooking Light and it includes ...