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Kabocha Squash, you say?

Well it's been months yet again!  Happy New Year!  Maybe I should throw in a Happy Valentine's Day as well.  I have been doing a lot on the road to health and eating well....going to school, working and volunteering I just haven't been here but the other day a few things happened I had to share.
As I have told everyone before I get a bi-weekly organic basket with fruit & vegetables delivered to my apartment from Pfenning's Organics & More.  The last basket included something I had never seen before a kabocha squash.  I did a little further research having no idea what to do with it and it was the size of a medium pumpkin.  I found out it is a Japanese squash and they use it like we would use pumpkin.  I wasn't interested in dessert so I  looked up a recipe for  sweet & spicy roasted kabocha squash recipe. 




 

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