help - butternut squash advice needed quick!

[Monkeybird]

I hate cutting up and peeling the blighters but wanna use for me and the baby to try tonight (for which read in about an hour...!)

Can I just wash it, roast it whole with skin on and chop after or will that not work/take forever/be a disaster?

Or is there an easy peeling/chopping solution that does not involve lots of swearing and a trip to A&E?

[Scootergrrrl]

No, roast it with the skin on then scrape the inside out. Oh, and have a nice cup of tea in the time you've saved

[Monkeybird]

thanks Scoot - how long? about an hour?

[AitchTwoOh]

i actually like the skin, it's nice and chewy.

[lottymadbird]

you can do it in the microwave too, although doesnt taste quite so nice. make sure you prick it all over though and put it in a dish.

[luciemule]

It's easy to peel it with a good veg peeler rather than a knife.

[AitchTwoOh]

those y-shaped ones, they're fine for peeling a butternut squash.

[Monkeybird]

you can eat the skin!? I never tried... do babies eat it too?

[AitchTwoOh]

dd doesn't like it, but it's easy enought to pull off when you serve it up. try it and see. might be q bit chewy for the very young but they'll just avoid it in that case.

[VictorianSqualor]

Oh how I love butternut squash, I'm the only one in my house that will eat it though.
I shall force the next baby to like it just so I have a point buying it

[BroccoliSpears]

Don't throw the skin away - it's the best bit.

[mishymoo]

I often cut it in half, scoop out seeds, pour over a little olive oil, sprinkle with mixed herbs and bake for about 45minutes or so. Peels away easily from the skin.

[AitchTwoOh]

lol BS.

[Monkeybird]

yum yum yum yum...

baby wouldn't touch the stuff (was more interested in mummy milk and calpol TBH not sure teething best time to be BLW) but I ate about half a whole one. His were big chips and a bit stringy actually so not sure it's best place to start (banana went down better!) but mine, slathered in olive oil, salt and a teeny bit of balsamic vinegar to dip were farking fantastic. And now I feel a teeny bit sick...

My local gastropub (god when WAS the last time I went there?) serves it roasted with honey and mint and the mint/sweetness combo is genius. I have been known to slaver in mint sauce that has been in the fridge far too long. Not for the kids obv.

[Monkeybird]

Obv I don't me me, slavering, and rolling in mint sauce, but the butternut squash

[Monkeybird]

and I'm getting me slavers and slathers confused. It must be the fact I'm sitting on my sofa, on my own at 6pm for the first time in, oh, 8 years. Bliss. Might crash a beer and, blimey, even watch the news...

[LittleBottle]

I cheat - buy it pre-cut and frozen from Waitrose