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French Pumpkins: Potimarron

While in France last week I thoroughly enjoyed prowling the morning market, its stretch of tables brilliant with fruit, vegetables, and delicious local specialties. Here's the local variety of pumpkin...

Harvest Cooking Tip: Roast Garlic Cloves Inside Squash

Here's a quick, flavor-boosting tip we've been using with our acorn squash lately. ...

Doce de Abóbora: Sweet Pumpkin Compote

When we saw this photo, the bright orange jam made us sit up and stare. What was this intense orange stuff? ...

Eat This: Baked Acorn Squash Rings

We have a trustworthy method for making sweet and spicy acorn squash, but there's one downside: it's slow. So we perked up when we saw this alternate method from Alicia and Summer at Bread & Honey...

Midwest Food Roundup: Tailgating and Columbus Day Eats

Tailgating season is in full swing throughout the Midwest with weekly food sections offering tips and recipes for eating – and drinking – well on a budget. We've also got a roundup of squash rec...

Technique: How to Cut a Butternut Squash

When faced with an oddly-shaped and rock-solid butternut squash, it can be hard to know just where to begin. Happily, no mallets, cleavers, or jigsaws are necessary. All you need is a sharp chef's kni...

Recipe: Pasta with Butternut Squash, Sage, and Pine Nuts

It's officially fall now, and it's officially harvest. We're going to be focusing on all those delicious fall fruits and vegetables this month at The Kitchn, starting with this butternut squash pasta,...

Seasonal Spotlight: Delicata Squash

This variation of squash hits its peak right about now, in the late summer and early fall. We got one in our CSA pick-up this week. It's small (about six or seven inches long) and is going to be part ...

Recipe: Squash and Onions with Brown Sugar

This is, hands down, our favorite way to eat yellow summer squash. And we realize this might be due to a nostalgic predilection for Southern-style vegetables (i.e. cooked until they "surrender"), but ...

Make This Tonight: Zucchini Rice Gratin

We've been looking for easy recipes that make use of the squash and zucchini we're getting in our CSA. This one could be a main dish......

Ingredient Spotlight: Kabocha Squash

Kabocha is a Japanese pumpkin that is extremely sweet and is used in many Japanese dishes such as oden and tempura. It's also used in cakes and other sweets....

Ingredient Spotlight: Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti squash is a cylinder-shaped squash that ranges in color from pale yellow to canary yellow. Do you know why it's called spaghetti squash?...

Recipe: Cous Cous Salad with Winter Squash and Cranberries

Back at the end of the summer when the farmer's markets were closing shop for the season, we bought a 20-pound bag of winter squash for $20 thinking we'd surely never get tired of squash! And now it...

Recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash Puree with Goat Cheese

Let's get started on fall foods - we're more than ready for crisp apples and orange pumpkins with warm spices. This butternut squash puree is a gateway food from summer to fall; the orange color and w...

Recipe: Acorn Squash and Roasted Garlic Strudel

Strudel is an easy and accommodating sort of pastry. If you start with premade phyllo dough and use ricotta as a foundation for your filling, a strudel can be adapted to all kinds of flavor experiment...