Winter Squash 101: words and pictures. 8 January 2008 8:19 pm
Posted by Tracy in : winter squash, ingredients, pictures, friends, cooking , 5 commentsThis post is dedicated to Debbie, who asked about prepping winter squash for Gladys’s Rice and Bean Stew.
Winter squash are delicious but labor-intensive, as I attempt to demonstrate in the following photo series. Whenever possible, I highly recommend roasting them in their more or less inedible hard outer skins, the better to scoop out their delicious cooked flesh without any of that pesky peeling beforehand. But sometimes you want chunks of squash, as in the above-mentioned stew, or winter squash risottos, and so on. In that case, you’ve got a little more work ahead of you, and here’s how I do that work. (more…)
