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Kelly Brakenhoff – Author

Cozy Mysteries and Children's Picture Books

Directions for butternut squash bowls. Roast squash by cutting in half, drizzling with olive oil, salt & pepper and baking in a 400° oven for 40 minutes. Let cool for 15 min. Scoop squash into a bowl. Mix with 2 cups shredded chicken, 1-2 cups alfredo sauce, shredded italian cheese, 1 tsp italian seasoning, 1 tsp all purpose seasoning, 1 cup frozen chopped peppers and onions. Spoon into squash halves or a small cassserole dish and Bake at 350 for 15 minutes until bubbly.

Recipe: Butternut Squash Bowls

My friend gave me a medium-ish sized butternut squash from his garden and I wanted to use it for an easy, quick dinner. We love eating those stuffed spaghetti squash meals where you mix the ingredients and eat them using the squash as a bowl. Butternut squash has a different texture than spaghetti squash, with more of a mashed potato than a pasta consistency.

The results were delicious, so if you get your hands on a butternut squash, give it a try! We now have a gigantic one on our counter so I’d probably double the rest of the ingredients if I were using that bad boy and use it to feed a crowd. Maybe this would be a good potluck dish idea.

Don’t forget, if your garden is still producing a ton of tomatoes, you can make these great recipes submitted by six readers that I posted last summer. Recipes Using Garden Tomatoes Blog Post

Kelly Brakenhoff is an author of eleven books and an ASL interpreter. She divides her writing energy between two series: cozy mysteries set on a college campus and picture books featuring Duke the Deaf Dog. The mother of four young adults and a hunting dog, and grandma to a growing brood of perfectly behaved grandkids, Kelly and her husband call Nebraska home.

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