Winter squash is my favorite vegetable. I grow several different types each year looking for the best tasters, to me. My favorite way, to taste the squash is to cut into wedges, peel and steam in the Micro wave. When cooked through I puree. This is pure squash with pure flavor. This way I can tell if it is to be eaten without any thing added, my favorite way to eat squash. The ones that, for my taste buds, I don't care for I use in soups, hot sauces, relishes, jams, pies, breads, desserts, etc. OR give to others who have different taste buds. My taste buds like "Kabocha" best. Then Sweetmeat types {ex: Homestead Sweetmeat, Sweetmeat, Katy's Sweet, Sweet Keeper}, Marina Di Chioggia, Yamikens, buttercups and then various Hubbards. My wife likes Butternut types in addition to those I like.
