What can I make with a 1 1/4 pound butternut sqaush?

I’m thinking right now, I’ll come up with something but I think butternut squash is one thing garlic would not be good with.

No sugar, meat, butter or flour? I’d rather slit my throat. Not even bacon?

This recipe is similar to something my mom used to do and sounds good. It leaves out the ingredients you want to avoid. Most butternut squash recipes tend to be sweet rather than savory but this sounds pretty good.

@pdworkin Well I don’t eat meat, not a lot of sugar, and other stuff. My family doesn’t as well, except for meat. @Darwin Thanks I will try it out. :)

@Darwin Oops. I spoke too soon. The link doesn’t work. Can you try it again?

http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1930,144186-233200,00.html

Try this.

@Ailia I’m sorry, that was just meant to be a wisecrack. De gustibus non disputandem est. Or, as my mother (Oleha H’a Sholom) used to say, “Each to his fancy, said Nancy, as she kissed the cow.”

@pdworkin Its fine. And what exactly do you mean by De gustibus non disputandem est?

You can make soup
I have to ask my GF for the recipe, she usually makes it…

@Darwin Well I don’t have any kombu or soy sauce. So…?

Loosely translated it means that in matters of taste there should be no arguments.

@PretentiousArtist Well I already have a meat dish(for my family), steamed green beans, coconut drop biscuits, and a drinks. @pdworkin Thanks. There are a lot of translations out there so I was a bit confused. And concerning that latin expression I do agree. :)

@Ailia – Try a little salt and celery instead. Or try something like this: http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1950,156185-238195,00.html

Or simply bake it with a bit of vegetable oil so it won’t stick and a sprinkle of an appropriate herb, such as basil, like this:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1925,149182-227206,00.html

Or this method, using just enough vegetable oil that it won’t stick. Since it is savory you could use olive oil.:
http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,1650,158172-252201,00.html

Squash is pretty forgiving. It will go wherever you lead it, towards the savory side of the menu or towards the sweet side. You could even use the squash in place of eggplant in something like this: http://southernfood.about.com/od/eggplantrecipes/r/bl00810c.htm

I don’t know why my links aren’t working today, hence I am providing the full URLs.

@Darwin About the Savory Butternut Squash recipe, I don’t have tabasco pepper sauce so do you think I can use Frank’s Red Hot sauce? Or just put plain pepper with a few other herbs?

You can’t go wrong with Frank’s, even though my Cajun friends laugh at me when I say so.

Frank’s will work just fine. It will be slightly different but it will still work.

@pdworkin Yeah that is one good hot sauce. I put it on a lot of food dishes even eggs. Its also good in combination with middle eastern olive salad. @Darwin Thank you so much. I bet it will turn out great, thanks to you. :)

Hope your meal turns out fantastically!

Easy soup recipe; you can sub. veggie broth for the chicken broth.

Addendum: All squash and carrot soup recipes follow the one mentioned above; just change the flavoring. Cinnamon, mace, allspice, curry, cumin all work when fiddled with. You can also all snipped greens like kale, chard, beet tops, spinach and fool the children.

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@virtualist Whats the point of making them when no one in my family, including myself, smokes?

@pdworkin, “De gustibus non disputandem est” was my father’s favorite all-purpose remark. I grew up understanding that you can’t argue about taste. The same sentiment is immortalized in the aria “Chacun à son goût” in the comic opera Die Fledermaus.

And don’t forget what my mom used to say @Jeruba .

I heard it as “There is no accounting for other people’s tastes.” A slight bias there.

To each his own is a better approximation.

Not in my family of origin. “We
” were always better than “they,” according to my insecure mother.