Stuffed Squash

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Nov 4

Today's recipe for Stuffed Squash is one I absolutely love. It's a very easy and very tasty one, and elegant enough to serve for Thanksgiving dinner. You all know my Grandma was a great one for a hotdish, but this is really similar. It has squash, ground meat, onion, celery - oh, and apple. If she and Grandpa would have grown squash in their garden, I think she would have loved making this one for the family - it's made just like a hotdish, but no cream of anything soup added! All I know is, MY family loved this squash, and I'll be making this quite a few times in the next month or so. Squash is so readily available right now, so there's no excuse - try this one - I know you'll be glad you did!

Here is the recipe as I made it:

Stuffed Squash

Cut in half and clean out:

1 or 2 squash (I used 1 acorn squash)

Season each half of squash with:

salt and pepper

pat of butter

Bake at 400 degrees for 50-60 minutes (this was a hard squash, so I went 1 hour and 20 minutes), or until squash is tender when pierced with a knife.

For filling (you can do this while the squash is baking):

Saute in 1 Tablespoon butter:

1/2 pound lean ground beef or ground turkey (if making more than 1 squash, I'd use 1 pound of meat)

1 medium onion, chopped

2 apples, chopped

2 stalks celery, chopped

1 teaspoon dried thyme

Remove squash from oven after baking and fill squash with filling.

Top with:

1 cup shredded mozzarella

Put back in oven for 5 minutes or until cheese is melted.

Remove from oven and add a sprinkling of chopped parsley.

Be careful when cutting these squash - they can be slippery little suckers. Clean out all the "guts" and seeds. Remember - you can roast the seeds just like pumpkin seeds.

I also like to season the squash while baking.

It saves a little time to cook up the filling while the squash is baking.

This filling is so tasty - all the fall flavors!

1 cup of cheese is just a ballpark figure - you can put on as much as you can get to stay on the squash.

This is such a seasonal thing to make with all the squash available right now.

Just look how pretty they are!

I love this dish so much! The squash is delicious in itself, but then you add the equally delicious filling - full of all the fall flavors of apple, thyme, onion, and celery - so good and so good for you! This squash is special enough for your Thanksgiving table, but easy enough to make for a weeknight dinner. You're going to love this amazingly delicious recipe for Stuffed Squash.

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