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We like it sweet - with maple syrup, brown sugar, butter and a touch of salt.

I'm going to have to try this! I bake squash a lot. I take the two halves and make one savory and one sweet. My favorite savory is cheese and my favorite sweet is maple syrup, a touch of butter and some raisins.

Growing up my mom would sometimes put sausage in the savory half. Served with bread, it was a complete meal in it's own container!

And the best tool I've found for scraping out the cavity? A grapefruit spoon. Those little teeth on the end work wonders to cut the strings.

I've been eating a lot of squash this fall: spaghetti squash, butternut squash and acorn squash. Here's what I've tried:
Spaghetti squash: With a meat sauce and with a brown butter sauce (soooo good)
Butternut squash: Mashed with maple syrup and butter; Roasted with sage.
Acorn squash: This epicurious recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ROASTED-ACORN-SQUASH-WITH-CHILE-VINAIGRETTE-236007
The hardest part of this recipe is cutting the squash and it is just amazing!

I must admit, acorn squash does not usually excite me like other squashes do. My favorites are butternut and kabocha. But I will definitely give the garlic tip here a try! Also, kumquat: the epicurious acorn squash recipe sounds AMAZING. Thanks for posting!
-Julie

I've made that roasted acorn squash with chile vinaigrette recipe posted by kumquat. It was divine and simple too. I have two delicata squash from my CSA - any thoughts?

We often take a head of garlic and just cut it in half and stuff it in the "seeds hole" in the middle.

After being served some delicious acorn squash at a wedding a few weeks ago, I went home and tried to replicate it. I did learn one trick: you can quickly and easily cook winter squash in the toaster oven if you slice it into thin pieces, like 1/2-1" thick. It takes about half the time (30-40 minutes) instead of an hour or more.

Now, if only I could figure out how they got the sweet glaze down the sides. I tried maple syrup and that didn't work. My mom says honey, but it tasted more like brown sugar, but without any crystallization. Thoughts?

My BF and I made sweet and spicy squash with a turkey filling that was delicious. I posted about the process - with a few photos - on my website:
huntpeck.blogspot.com

I love the fall-squash-a-thon!