A Second Attempt at Butternut Squash

Happy Halloween Everyone!

I can't, for the life of me, remember if I posted my original attempt at butternut squash (and I'm too lazy to go check at the moment) and I know this is a day late, but even so, here I go:

The last time I tried out this lovely gourd, I was very much a novice when it came to cooking things in the oven (especially thickly skinned things like these buggers). I forgot to add a tad bit of salt to off set the sweet and it was just...not good. I had pretty much decided I was never going to try again.

However, I'm not one to give up so easily. So, knowing that this family as a whole needs a good bit more nutrition in their diet and butternut squash has plenty to give, I figured I'd try again.

So what did I do?

Well, I took

• One butternut squash
• some thyme
• a pinch of salt
• brown sugar
• cooking oil

and

1. Peeled the buttenut squash (a regular peeler works fine, but you'll have to go over it a few times before you get to the good stuff) and cut it into cubes.
2. Did my normal, coat the cubes in oil, sprinkle the spices, and then mix it all together with my hands thing.
3. Popped it in the oven 

Now this is where it gets tricky. I put it in for 25 minutes at 350 because I was pretty sure that's what the recipe online said (I know the time is right at least), but all of the cubes were still pretty hard (no fork was puncturing them with any sort of ease). So, I decided to up the temperature to 400 and left them in for at least thirty more minutes. I can't remember the exact time though, so you'll just have to keep an eye on things.

Overall, I found it to be pretty tasty, but I'm not positive the whole family shared my opinion...so we'll have to see when and if I attempt to conquer this veggie (or fruit?) a third time.