Sunday, January 10, 2010

Delicious Acorn Squash from Pioneer Woman

Today we made Delicious Acorn Squash as featured by Ree Drummond, aka The Pioneer Woman back in October of 2008. The ingredients are very simple: acorn squash, salt, brown sugar, butter and maple syrup.

We used kosher salt from the Great Salt Lake, sold as Redmond Real Salt. Visit their site at: https://www.realsalt.com/ and look for their products in your local store. We think their gourmet all natural sea salt on broccoli tastes like you put butter on your broccoli only better. (And without all the fat of actually putting on butter!)

We made a total of six acorn squash halves using traditional green-skinned acorn squash which was starting to turn orange and one yellow-skinned acorn squash.
The squash "meat" is scooped out along with some of the delicious syrup. Mmmmm....... it was very yummy and earned an excellent rating.
This second picture is a close up of the delicately browned edges and the golden dipping syrup.
Find the recipe at The Pioneer Woman's site: http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2008/10/delicious-baked-acorn-squash/
Here's a great example of the ability to include more vegetable goodness in our lives.

1 comment:

Catherine said...

IT WAS Excellent! We passed it around several times (everyone taking a bite-ful or so) and we were all very impressed. I had been meaning to try this recipe several times but never got to it. Thanks for letting us try yours. :)