How to Make Butternut Squash/Spaghetti Squaesh/Acorn Squash…:Ask the produce person at the grocery store to cut it halfway lengthwise. They will gladly do it for you.
Use either a disposable aluminum pan or Pyrex large enough for the squash that you have.
Scoop out all the seeds and nasty stringy stuff. The put them with the open side facing down so that they don’t dry out. Add about ½ cup of water. pre-heat oven to 350F and bake for anywhere between 40 minutes to 1 hour or as long as necessary. Acorn squash is the smallest I think so it would be closer to 40 minutes and spaghetti and butternut squashes would be close to an hour. For example, the butternut squash I made today was bigger than usual so it took an hour and five minutes.
The way you know if it’s cooked enough is that you put a fork through it and it goes in easily. You then want to wait for it to cool down before you do anything else
Once it has cooled down enough you can run it through a blender or food processor. If the consistency doesn’t become smooth enough use some of the water from the pan you baked it in to smooth it out some more. The benefit of that is that the water it was cooked in now has the nutrients as opposed to just using fresh water.
When he’s about 8-10 months old you will no longer have to run it through the blender. You’ll be able to just mash it with a fork for him.
You can scoop it into the ice cube trays, freeze over night and then pop them out to a freezer zip lock bag and just microwave before you serve so it’s not too cool.
Once you have cleared him for allergies for each of the squashes you can start mixing them together for a more interesting flavor and can start mixing with other things he has been cleared for allergies. Butternut squash is really good with chicken for example but that doesn’t come till about 7-8 months.
