Squash & Gourds
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Kabocha Squash (Japanese Pumpkin) Braised in Milk
This Japanese Pumpkin braised in milk is a recipe that you could imagine in a lunchtime bento box or as a side dish to some grilled salmon or roast pork.
Ratatouille
In this classic Provençal dish, summer vegetables, like eggplant, onions, peppers, tomatoes and zucchini, are covered in olive oil and roasted separately, then all together, until they become a soft, harmonious stew. This recipe calls for seeding and peeling the tomatoes, which is a bit of work. But it’s worth it for the intensity of flavor and the velvety texture. Ratatouille takes some time to make, and tastes better the next day, so plan ahead. The upside is that it’s a perfect make-ahead dish for a party. You can store it in the refrigerator for up to 5 days, then gently reheat it, or bring it to room temperature before serving. This recipe is part of The New Essentials of French Cooking, a guide to definitive dishes every modern cook should master.
Butternut Squash with Pancetta and Sage Leaves
Quick & easy Butternut Squash with Pancetta recipe. It hits all the right notes - caramelized squash, crispy pork, creamy creme fraiche, and the crunch of sage.
Farro With Roasted Squash, Feta and Mint
Falling somewhere between a grain bowl and a warm grain salad, this colorful dish is substantial enough to be a meatless main course, or it makes a hearty side dish to simple roasted meat or fish. You can use whatever kind of squash you like here, either peeled or unpeeled. Squash skin is perfectly edible; let anyone who objects cut theirs away at the table (though see if you can get them to try it first). If you don’t have farro, you can substitute brown rice. Just increase the cooking time by about 20 minutes.
Pumpkin Pie Energy Bites
These little energy balls are the perfect mid afternoon pick me up. They satisfy that need for something sweet without the energy crash of other sugary sweets.
Butternut Squash with Ginger, Rosemary and Toasted Mustard Seeds
This squash was made with the last squash from our garden last year. I wanted to treat it simply, compliment it sweetness and give it just enough pop to make sure that it was memorable. I cooked this in coconut oil which also added a nice depth of flavor to this simple recipe.
Summer Vegetable Gratin
Cooking some of the ingredients beforehand is the key to a rich-tasting, nonsoggy gratin of summer vegetables: It pulls out water and concentrates flavors. The recipe has three layers — aromatics, vegetables and topping — but you can omit the topping to make it just two. Be sure to use fresh bread, nothing hard and stale, in that topping. Fluffy bits, not sandy shards, make the best crust.
Grilled Zucchini with Parmesan Panko Crust
Zucchini is my favorite summer vegetable to grill. They marinate well, can get a charred outer layer while staying sweet and juicy in the inside, and pair well with basically any summer meal (all you have to do is pick the right marinade or toppings!). This recipe is a really easy way to spice up your grilled zucchini.
Squash breakfast toast recipe
Squash breakfast toast recipe - quick and easy breakfast toast layered with tons of flavour. Cottage cheese, roasted squash, dried apricots and sesame.
Mast-o-Khiar (Persian-Style Cucumber Dip)
This mast-o khiar is a gorgeous Persian dip recipe you can enjoy with potato chips, crackers, or bread. It is also a lovely side dish for any grilled meat.
Coconut Almond Cluster Granola
As terrific as homemade granola tastes, its texture often lacks the thick, crunchy clusters found in store-bought versions. This recipe is an exception, filled with crisp, sweet clumps of oats, coconut flakes and seeds. The secret is grinding a portion of the oats and coconut into flour, which helps bind the ingredients together. Feel free to mix up the spices, nuts and seeds to taste, and to add dried fruit or chocolate chips after it cools if you like. Granola is adaptable, so make it the way you like it. You can also cut the brown sugar in half. The granola will be less sweet and less cluster-packed but still quite satisfying.
Papaya, Jicama, Cucumber Salad
The tangy lime dressing really pulls the flavors together in the dish!
Butternut, lentil and cucumber salad
This salad is not well complicated (as usual) and savours magnificently in a lunch box. Think simply of making it the day before.
Roasted Seminole Pumpkin, Sage & Goat Cheese Wontons
These steamed wontons are filled with sage, making it the perfect recipe to celebrate the vibrance of the season's produce, including Seminole pumpkin.
Roasted Squash and Radicchio Salad With Buttermilk Dressing
Roasted delicata squash brings sweetness and a velvety texture to the bitter radicchio and arugula in this colorful salad. A light buttermilk dressing adds creaminess and brightness. It’s satisfying enough for a light dinner, or serve it before or alongside roasted or grilled meat or fish.
Red Kuri Squash Soup with Crispy Bulgur, Fennel Seeds & Curcuma
This soup is a celebration of all things Fall. A Red Kuri squash soup, that I cook really simply with no particular twist, I don’t feel that it really needs any. I just go creative on the toppings : crispy bulgur with curcuma and fennel seeds, it adds a little depth to the soup. If you like some heat, I recommend also adding a pinch of chili powder !
Twice-Baked Butternut Squash With Cashew Cheese, Walnuts and Cranberries
The dish from Caitlin Galer-Unti, a vegan food blogger, is stuffed with cashew cheese, nuts and cranberries. It would make a great main or side.
Marinated Zucchini Salad with Parmesan and Pepitas
I make this salad constantly during the summer: it's crazy easy to pull together, and it pairs well with and/or sauces so many summer favorites: grilled chicken or skirt steak, fish prepared almost any way. It's lovely with goat cheese or mozzarella on toast. I often eat it for lunch, straight from the bowl.
Steamed Salmon with Lemon Scented Zucchini
This is a recipe for Steamed Salmon with Vegetables. Be sure to serve the fish with some of the steaming liquid, as the liquid will soak up the flavor.
Zucchini fritters
I learned to make these from a friend, a retired chef, almost 30 years ago. My children love them dearly, and ask for them regularly during zucchini season. They're very simple, and pretty easy to make. Be careful about using "off-brand" saltine crackers; they can change the taste dramatically.
Chinese Smashed Cucumbers With Sesame Oil and Garlic
In China, cucumbers are considered the ideal foil for hot weather and hot food. Versions of this salad, pai huang gua, are served all over the country, sometimes spiked with dried chiles and Sichuan peppercorns for more dimensions of flavor. In Beijing, people buy whole chilled cucumbers from street vendors and munch them on the go, much as Americans become attached to their cups of iced coffee in summer. The smashing process, a classic Chinese technique, cracks the skin, helps release the seeds and splits the flesh into appealing craggy pieces. Salting and chilling the cracked cucumbers give them the perfect cool, crunchy, watery mouth feel.
Summer Squash Scrambled Eggs
The subtle sweetness of the squash in this recipe is a great partner to the eggs and the texture becomes almost velvety. A great breakfast or dinner.
Zucchini puff pastry tart with cottage cheese
This Cottage Cheese Puff Pastry recipe uses only 4 ingredients, it takes about 10 minutes to prepare and another 30 in the oven. Perfect for a weekday dinner.
Cucumber and Onion Salad, aka Cukes-n-Onions
A southern garden staple, a quick sweet and tart way to use those abundant cucumbers. This is less a recipe than it is a method. It is quick and easy, simple and refreshing. I've tried variations and I've eaten other people's variations, but I keep coming home to the way my mom did this almost every day when Daddy's garden was in full swing. Some things cannot be improved upon.