Pumpkin and squash recipe ideas?
I'm so loving the beauty and color off all this fall harvest. We have another trip planned to the pumpkin patch. Any tips on what to buy that I might actually be able to cook?
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I believe those are the cooking pumpkins and then you peel them...and that's as far as I got in the article before I decided on canned again this year 
look it up on martha, that's where I read about it and the recipes looked delicious.
slice it in half, bake for like an hour and then use it however. It makes a good base for curry (it gets mooshy, so use it more like you would tomato sauce/paste and then put veggies/meat/tofu/whatnot in it, use broth to thin it out, and throw the whole thing over rice).
Also, spaghetti squash-- you bake it and then scoop it out -- it comes out in strings like spaghetti -- you can serve it exactly as you would spaghetti, too -- with sauce or just butter and parmesan.
I love squash.
I love to bake them - any smallish squash, so small pumpkin, acorn, delicata, just cut in half lengthwise, remove seeds, place cut side down on a cookie sheet and bake at 350 until it feels softish when you poke it, then remove from the oven, flip and add butter and sugar and spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, or curry).
I love soups - the easiest way I have found is to cut the squash into quarters or eighths, remove seeds, put on a cookie sheet and bake at 300 or so until soft and then scoop out the squash into a pot - first I like to saute some onions and garlic or shallots in the pot, then dump in the squash and add water and bullion or soup stock to taste. I also add spices (depends on what else is in there) - yesterday I did a pumpkin apple shallot soup with sage and madras curry powder.
Cut them into chunks, cut off the peel, remove seeds and add to brothy soups with other vegetables.
Bake and use like potatoes to mash.
I made two squash recipes this week...
Stuffed Acorn Squash, DH just ate the leftovers today and asked me to make it again soon. I used Chorizo sausage and left out the chili powder.
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/southwest_acorn_squash.html
And Curried Butternut Squash Soup that I am making for our annual halloween party
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&...
Pumpkin Ravioli! process the pumpkin..Bake it boil it whatever you do. Add ricotta cheese, salt, pepper, and nutmeg. Use won ton wrappers to save yourself from making the dough. Place a small amount in between two wrappers seal the edges with water, and boil. Then serve with sage butter. Add fresh or dried sage to melted butter, pour over raviolis. Even one will think you are a super kitchen goddess. 
http://cooksewbitchy.blogspot.com/
BD made it the other night and it was mmm-mmm-GOOOOOD! he says to tell you to follow a basic risotto recipe, and then just puree some of the cooked squash and mix it in with the risotto, and to cube the rest and add it. add some curry powder and you're done. we had it with halibut and they were sooo freakin' good together...
and also pumpkin rolls. the pie tastes so much better when you make it using fresh pumpkin!! pumpkin rolls are real easy also, it's just like making carrot cake except you use pumpkin for the bread part, then roll it with cream cheese:
http://southernfood.about.com/od/pumpkins/r/blbb465.htm
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baking ones.
Peeling a pumpkin does not sound like something I want to do.