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.

Pioneer Woman's Pecan Pie

Pie shell with pecans. (Pie shell made from Lion House recipe.)

Eggs, sugar, corn syrup and other ingredients whisked together and about to be poured onto the pecans.
Pour.
More pouring (this looks so much better on the Pioneer Woman's site.)

The pecans magically rise to the top within seconds.

The finished pie. We actually made two of these pies and the first one turned out a golden brown just like the one on Ree Drummond's site but the second one (in the picture above) got a little over toasty. It still tasted pretty good, but the first pie was better. Thank you, Pioneer Woman, for another great recipe!