Your roasted butternut squash looks wonderful! Do you place it cut-side down or cut-side up when you roast it? And when you serve it, do you put it on the table like you showed it here in your photo, or do you spoon it out and serve it in a bowl or casserole dish?

My husband I love acorn squash served just cut down the middle and roasted, and I serve each half on a plate as it is rather than spooning it out first. Then, my husband can add as much butter and brown sugar as he wants, while I enjoy mine with just a small amount of brown sugar or a dusting of cinnamon and sugar. We’ve done this for years, and that’s pretty much the only way we eat squash. But now that I’ve seen your idea here, I want to give it a try.

Blessings,
Karen

yes … about 95 percent of the recipes on the blog are my own creations. The other 5 percent are recipes that I have changed in some way to make it my own. I do sorta have a few formulas that I follow. As an example, if you look at my roasted butternut bread and my roasted potato bread they are both similar. I may just change the quantity of whole wheat or add in rye flour or use a different whole grain to the recipe to make it different in taste and texture.

Really all breads are similar. All sweet dough recipes pretty much have the same ingredients like flour, sugar, butter, eggs. Quantities of ingredients may change or shape and fillers, but, they are pretty much the same.

This is where I have the most fun. I enjoy looking for ingredients that would go together and make a good bread. I think it’s my years of cooking in restaurants that helps me.

I may also here of a technique that someone is using and incorporate that in a recipe of mine.

I have also made some real disasters too, that no one sees. I tell my sister we should have a blooper section to show some of our mistakes in photos and breads lol.

I’m surprised you haven’t found a difference between the large butternut squash and the small ones. hmmm.

I have found the larger ones to be lighter in color. Wonder if anyone else has found that.

Good to hear from you lori and take care!

chuck

I love butternut squash. I’ve never noticed a color difference between the small and the large, but I agree that a deeper orange is much more appealing.

Cheers,

Rosa