GREAT SUCCESS

I made two dishes from that silicone cup cookbook for dinner: the scalloped potatoes and the roasted butternut squash. Actually, I made the potatoes in miniature cake pans instead, because they were to be my main course.

On the potatoes, I ended up adding some onions and leaving the ham out (the recipe didn’t call for it anyway), and adding some asiago cheese and bread crumbs on top. The butternut squash recipe called for pine nuts to be sprinkled on just before serving. I left those off and gave them a sprinkle of cinnamon instead. I also added a little water to the bottom of the cups just in case the (yogurt-based) butter (substitute) wasn’t enough to keep the squash from drying out.

The potatoes could have probably used a little more liquid, but they were excellent.
But the squash… the squash…

Look, folks, I’m not a big squash person. I really don’t care for it that much. So when I tell you this squash was awesome, you have some perspective there. Seriously. I do not use the phrase “off the hook” often. This squash was off the fucking hook. In fact, here’s a diagram to show you just how far off the hook this squash was:

I could live on this squash. And then in researching things to see how else one might prepare it (pie, man, pie would be great), I found out that apparently butternut squash is actually pretty much interchangeable with pumpkin for a lot of things. Except it’s A HELL OF A LOT EASIER TO PREPARE.

But uh, anyway, yeah. SARAH HAS GAINED A LEVEL. SARAH HAS LEARNED NEW SKILL: “COOK BUTTERNUT SQUASH.” And now one little pan of scalloped potatoes and two little cups of pumpkin pie-candied squash are packed for lunch tomorrow. :9

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