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This is before we watch her make the cheese, bake the bread and whip up the butter from fresh cream, along with preparing an acorn squash and sweet potato soup and roasting some fish.

I read the signs: butternut, acorn squash, banana squash, and delicata.

The latter is what we had in mind for this acorn squash in our book “Cook What You Have,” which draws on pantry staples to assemble easy weeknight meals.

Also consider baked stuffed vegetables, such as acorn squash with a vegan stuffing or rice or grain mixture.

The friend was pure crunchy granola herself— she served acorn squash for dinner, taught me how to macrame and literally had a tree growing inside her house.