Subject: squash the vegetable

[Stonecove]

Subject: squash the vegetable. If your only argument for me to eat this is that it's good for me, that alone is justification to not eat it. No wonder many deer bait piles have squash in them.

There once was a man from Nantucket
Who's mother made him eat squash and "you'll like it"
His protests were ignored
SQUASH yuck-- he abhorred
And what he ate ended up in a bucket!
PATOOEE!

Happy Thanksgiving !
Stonecove

 

[Jessie]

There was a young man from Teluride
Who hated squash, although he tried
He cooked it with bacon
And sick it was makin
Until he had it prepared FRIED

 

[loutent]

I have only recently begun eating butternut squash - especially since you can buy it already peeled and cut up. I toss with olive oil add salt & pepper and put it on a sheet pan in a 425 deg oven for about 25 min - toss occasionally - gets nice and caramelized on the outside and pretty tasty overall.

I have cut way back on the taters

 

[Alpo]

First, squash is a fruit, not a vegetable.

Second, punkin is a squash. Punkin pie. Do I need to say any more?

Okay, zucchini is a squash. Zucchini bread. Still need more?

Okay. Yellow crook-neck squash. My mother used to boil it and feed it to us. Ugh. Yuch. Nasty. Right up there with fried eggplant. Howsomever, wash it good, slice it up raw and put it in a salad with a good vinaigrette, or even better some honey-mustard dressing and that's good eats.

 

[arjay]

Squash isn't bad if its cooked with some creativity.The ex did some interesting things with vegetarian cooking while I supplied dead critters.[emoji4]

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I ate so much of it as a kid, I was burned out by 12.
Sometimes I do cook some. With onion if stewed.
I like it oven roasted. Cut into finger sizes strips, s-p, oil lightly, bake or put under broiler. Cook with some onion.
But then again, I also add onion to most everything.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Salt, pepper and butter or olive oil will make just about any squash taste good. This is the season for it. I like spaghetti squash (coz it lets me think I am eating pasta). Roasted vegetables go good this time of year, too. Cabbage, zucchini, broccoli, carrots, onions, leeks, potatoes, turnips, parsnips, rutabaga. Brussels sprouts.

 

[johngalt]

Like most foods, it greatly loses its appeal when overcooked. Vegetables are especially nasty when overcooked.

 

[fiasconva]

Squash is actually the only thing I know of that I'm allergic to. I never did like it anyway.

 

[Buckey08]

Acorn squash.......... Butter, Brown sugar, and Thanksgiving Turkey what's not to like!

 

[wbraswell]

Yellow and zucchini, sliced length wise, olive oil, salt and pepper, grilled but still has some texture, yum.

 

[USAF385]

Like many foods, if it's not prepared right... it's not going to taste good!

 

[kozmic]

They had to invent a dozen or more different squashes(?) so folks could hopefully find one that was somewhat tolerable to the palette. They failed miserably. Oh, I choke some down now and then because my wife is a big fan. On my own, I'd never have one in my house.

As a disclaimer...I like zucchini and yellow squash, but beyond that....I'll pass.

 

[shouldazagged]

As kids we ate what was put in front of us. Period. No arguments.'

This was fortunate. I grew up liking damn near everything most kids say they hate--squash, liver, Brussels sprouts, broccoli, okra, all of it.

I like many kinds of squash, and enjoy different ways of cooking them. I think for many people, kids especially, the name makes them anticipate not liking it. "Squash" could suggest roadkill...

 

[finesse_r]

My favorite vegetables are:

French Fries
Pop Corn
Catsup
Onion Rings

 

[carpriver]

I also grew up being told to eat what was on your plate. I do like squash. Butternut squash baked and scoped out of the skin add some butter salt and pepper, mash it up. served up with turkey and some cranberry sauce and turkey gravy and stuffing, good eating.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I opened this thread thinking it was a Gallagher video.

 

[Kinman]

When I was a kid and we didn't have much money I used to regret those winter days when we had gone through all the vegetables except the huge "Mother Hubbard" squashes. They were always kept in the cellar and lasted way beyond the carrots and taters. I guess it would have been OK if it was liberally dosed with butter but we had to eat it dry with salt and pepper, I think mom tried to use white gravy once or twice but all I remember was its course and stringy texture and the fact that it was very dry. I love summer squash, no more than an inch across and sliced thin, pan fried in butter. Butternut squash was always a big hit done in the oven upside in water, then turned right-side up and dosed with a very liberal amount of buttern and brown sugar...desert...Oh Yeah. To this day I will not eat large baked squash on a bet, thats a starvation diet as far as I'm concerned...spoiled maybe.

 

[Maddog 521]

I have found the Buttercup squash is the sweetest and the Turban is right behind it. Of course they are in the same family. Both are kind of hard to find in the south.

 

[Milton]

When I returned home after 18 months in South Korea the first thing I wanted was some cooked yellow crooked neck squash,great stuff!!
If you have a few laying around boil them until soft and ready to eat,remove from the water and cut them in half length wise.While you are boiling them fry out some ground meat.After cutting them in half scoop out the insides and mix it with the cooked meat,place the mixture in each half of the squash with the open side up.Place in the oven with cheese sprinkled on top and heat until the cheese melts:good eating!