i don't hate squash

[keryx]

I used the first of my garden-grown yellow squash as a sausage replacement in a polenta last night. At last! Squash I don't hate.

Most recipes with yellow squash are things I wouldn't like with another vegetable, so it's no surprise I hate most everything I tried to cook with it (baked, broiled, casseroled - ew, yuck). So I grew some, and now I'm going to use it instead of meats in things I actually like to eat.


Here's a recipe for creamy squash polenta, should you care to try it. I suppose you could substitute ingredients to make it vegan.

needs:
- 1 mid-sized squash per serving, halved and sliced thin
- 1 handful of crimini or white mushrooms per serving, quartered
- teaspoonish amount of garlic, minced
- teaspoonish amount of fresh basil, haphazardly hand-chopped
- 1/2 stick of butter
- 1/2 cup of yellow grits/polenta per serving
- salt, pepper, etc. to taste
- either something like 1/8 cup of cream and ricotta thoroughly mixed together, or a similar quantity of premade alfredo sauce

Cook the grits/polenta per whatever instructions you were given. Add a little butter after you take off heat.

Saute the garlic in butter. Add the mushrooms. Then the squash. Then the basil. Once everything else is cooked, stir in the cream/ricotta or alfredo.

Serve the goopy, creamy stuff over the polenta. Total time to cook - 15 min or so, including chopping stuff.