{"id":183,"date":"2010-10-13T01:15:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T01:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2012-08-19T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T23:05:08","slug":"recipe-how-to-bake-acorn-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/index.php\/2010\/recipe-how-to-bake-acorn-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: How to Bake Acorn Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend was talking about cooking an acorn squash with dinner the other day which convinced me that I would need to go ahead and attempt this feat. I bought an acorn squash at the grocery store and looked up recipes online. It really looked like the tried and true recipe uses brown sugar and syrup.<\/p>\n<p>Ingredients for baking acorn squash:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 Tbsp butter (one Tbsp for each side)<\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp brown sugar (1 Tbsp for each side)<\/li>\n<li>2 teaspoons maple syrup<\/li>\n<li>Salt and pepper to taste<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Preheat oven to 400 degrees. With a very sharp knife cut the acorn squash in half and scoop out the seeds and rind with a spoon leaving two clean halves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/acorn-squash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187 aligncenter\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px;\" title=\"acorn-squash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/acorn-squash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/acorn-squash.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/acorn-squash-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Score the insides of the acorn squash and add 1 Tbsp butter, 1 Tbsp brown sugar, and one teaspoon of maple syrup to each side. Place in a pan with about 1\/4 inch of water in the bottom to keep it from drying out while you bake it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bake-acorn-squash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-188  aligncenter\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"bake-acorn-squash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bake-acorn-squash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bake-acorn-squash.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bake-acorn-squash-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/bake-acorn-squash-298x300.jpg 298w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bake the acorn squash for about one hour and maybe a little bit more to make sure it is cooked thoroughly, but not too much. It should be tender to the rind.<\/p>\n<p>Serve with salt and pepper to taste.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?nz=female-rx-3-dose-online-sale\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend was talking about cooking an acorn squash with dinner the other day which convinced me that I would need to go ahead and attempt this feat&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cookingonadime.com\/index.php\/2010\/recipe-how-to-bake-acorn-squash\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57,58,59],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-side-dish","tag-acorn-squash","tag-bake-acorn-squash","tag-cook-squash"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Recipe: How to Bake Acorn Squash - Cooking on a Dime<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Acorn squash is the perfect accompaniment to your fall dinners. 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