SQUASAGE

I haven't been making a ton of dinners or other food because of the newest development of pregnancy: awful heartburn. One night, it kept me up all night long, nauseous and in pain. Since then, I've been trying to stay away from some of the more pin-inducing foods, but I'm not always successful (those Oreos just seem to call my name).

But tonight, we were able to have a lovely dinner, new to B, before B had to get to class pretty early. If we didn't eat before he left, then there was no way I could eat so late and not be up all night. The solution? A light, filling meal eaten quite early and very tasty, I might say. I had this recipe at home a few times and remembered loving it, so I thought I would give it a try.


SQUASAGE (B's name for it. Better than nothing, I suppose.)

Butternut squash
Ground sausage
Onion, diced
Butter
Brown sugar

As you can see, there are no measurements. For two people, I used one squash, about 1/2 pound sausage, 1/4 onion, and not too much butter and brown sugar. Next time, I would probably put a little less brown sugar, but if you like it to be really sweet, it's up to you.

Brown the sausage in a skillet. Add onions. Cook until the onions are see-through. Meanwhile, cut the squash in half longways (from end to end, not around the middle). Scoop out the guts (seeds and slimy things with them) and place in a baking dish with some water covering the bottom of the pan (not too much). Put heaping amounts of sausage and onion mixture into the cavity that you just carved in the squash. Add brown sugar on top of sausage and butter on top of brown sugar. Cover with tin foil. Bake in 350 oven for 45 minutes to an hour, or until the squash is fork-tender. Serve, putting each half of squash as one serving (one on each plate).

I had extra sausage and onion mixture that didn't fit in the squash. I put this along with the brown sugar and butter in another pan and stuck it in the oven just before the squash was done, melting the butter and rewarming the sausage. We each had a little extra sausage on our plate to eat with all the squash.


Super easy, super yummy. Fall dinner done right.