Used to be butternut, and I roasted it using a recipe quite similar to what Bombe posted above.

But I've bought delicata twice over the past three weeks & I think I'm in love. The skin is thinner, so it's easy to cut. (You can actually eat it, if you want.)

I love this forum because I keep learning about new foods. I had never before heard of quinoa, parsnips, rutabaga and now delicata. I've tried all the others...now I have to try delicata. :D

There's some kind of apple I'm supposed to try too...honeycrisp?

I tried delicata squash this week - delicious. In my neck of the woods (Canada) it's called potato squash, however; not nearly as pretty as delicata!

Also bought some honeycrisp apples - wow! Very good-tasting apple.

Yum!! YUM for squashes! I think I like them b/c there are no weird textures... the flavor is usually whatever you put on them.

I like butternut, zuchinni, yellow squash, acorn squash, spaghetti squash. What about pumpkin? Any one eat pumpkin just as a veggie? (As opposed to cooked in a pie or muffin)?

This is so weird, but I like my butternut cooked, smashed up, and mixed with broccoli. Yum. Something about the sweetness of the butternut mixed with the somewhat bitterness of broccolli.

yum! yum! yum!

Yes, I've had chunks of pumpkin sauteed & mixed through cooked lentils, and that traditional Italian soup that has pumpkin & sausage in it (whose name I forget), and I've also used canned pumpkin to make black bean & pumpkin soup.

I got a lot of slightly dented cans of Libby's pumpkin on sale last year and have been working my way through them, mostly looking for savory recipes. (Though pumpkin mixed through oatmeal & with pre-mixed Trader Joe's pumpkin pie spice is pretty good.)

But I've bought delicata twice over the past three weeks & I think I'm in love. The skin is thinner, so it's easy to cut. (You can actually eat it, if you want.)


Saef, I think we're in a love triangle. I made delicata for the first time last night & it was unbelievably good. The skin, too!

Mmmmmmm Buttercup! Its almost like Butternut but its soooo smooth and creamy like you put a ton of butter and cream in it. You can bake it with butter and brown sugar like an Acorn squash or peel, cut, cook & mash it which is what I generally do. Although I will say I never met a squash I didn't like!!

Peanut butter? I'll have to try that!!!!!