Hellooooo!
How’d your day go? Mine FLEW. Like, see ya’ Monday, I’ve got better things to do…such as head to the gym! I’m now 101% over my temporary fear of re-joining the gym and am loving my time there.
Of course I still deal with the, “ugh, it’d be so nice to go home right now, get in my ‘Js and cook dinner…” but once I’m there, I’m totally in the groove. Today I knocked out another 30 Minute 3-2-1 Treadmill Run followed by 10 minutes on the stair climber. HOLY SWEAT BUCKETS – it felt great! 
I came home starving and was SO excited to cook dinner. I got two, gorgeous acorn squash at the store last week and have been dying to STUFF THEM. Oh yeah! I made Sausage & Cornbread Stuffed Acorn Squash for dinner!
Here’s said beaut!
Squash can sometimes take a while to cook so, after I pre-heated the oven to 425 degrees in preparation to bake it, I pierced the middle with a small knife ~6 or 7 times, then popped it in the microwave for 2 minutes to soften it up. After 2 minutes, it was pretty easy to cut in half!
After I scraped out the seeds, I nuked the halves for 1 additional minute.
Seasoning time! A drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, garlic salt & pepper, and into the oven they went for 25-30 minutes, or until a knife inserted into the thickest part of the squash went through easily.
While the squash baked, I got to work on the stuffing. Can’t have stuffed squash without stuffing, can ya’?! I browned up ~1/3 lb mild turkey sausage with 1 small Granny Smith Apple.
In goes ~1/4 cup chicken broth,
and the whole thing is cooked until the apples are semi-soft (not mushy.)
In the background we’ve got Cornbread Stuffing workin’ too.
All this takes is 1 1/2 cups boiling water or chicken broth, then you pour in the contents of the box and put a lid on it for 5 minutes. EASY! 
Baked acorn squash + cornbread stuffing
+ a few minutes under the broiler =
Cornbread Stuffed Acorn Squash!! 
I mean!
This was SO easy and un.be.lievable!
The sweet squash with the tart apple are the ying to the salty turkey sausage & cornbread stuffing yang. The worked together PERFECTLY!
And, hello, edible bowl, anyone?! You know how I like my edible bowls… 
The thing I love about squash is that the texture is sometimes a surprise. While this acorn squash tasted like an acorn squash, it almost had the texture of spaghetti squash!
Oof, I’m stuffed! (pun intended)
Oh, here’s Ben and my FAVORITE way to enjoy extra stuffing. Lay it out on a cookie sheet and broil until golden brown.
Better than popcorn!
In other news, a home siding sales guy came to the door while I was cooking dinner and asked if my Mom or Dad was home. Oh yes he did.
His reaction to the news that I, in fact, owned the home was almost enough to forgive him for the mistake. He was SO embarrassed, muwahahaha. Do you see what I have to deal with?!
Ok, I’m off to PACK. I’m heading out of town for the next couple of days, for work, and I’ve nothing to wear! Don’t worry, I’m hooking you up with some EXCELLENT guest posts, that I think you’ll really like. Plus I’ll be popping in too.
See you tomorrow for a MORNING POST before I go! Toodles!
PS: Alternative post titles for tonight:
Stuffy Stuff for Bettering Stuff
Stuff It…Stuff it Good
Stuff, Stuff, Stuffed
Squashing the Stereotypes (that one was Ben’s…hahahaha, what?!)
Stuff You (also Ben’s contribution)
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What’s some of your favorite stuffed food?
I heart cannolis. Ben’s digs stuffed crust pizza.
Love stuffed foods – my favorite is Stuffed Bell Peppers (rice, salsa, sausage, cheesy goodness =).
Omg, that look so good. I love mixing sweet and salty. Apples with salty things always tastes delicious! THis looks like the perfect fall meal! =)
Just bought an acorn squash today! This will definitely be on the menu.
“stuff you” hahaha i love it
i like cupcakes stuffed with a reeses peanut butter cup!
I just made reese’s cupcakes!! They were such a hit!!
How to: http://semihealthnut.blogspot.com/2011/08/happy-11th-birthday-sister-have-some.html
Sometimes it is hard to get myself to go to the gym or out for a run, but once I’m there I love it!
Yum! My hubby is cooking up some acorn squash as we speak, though ours will be served with salmon cakes rather than (delicious looking) stuffing.
I just read him what you stuffed yours with…something tells me we’ll be trying this soon.
Don’t really have a favorite stuffed food. None of the foods I love (that I can think of right now) are stuffed. Hm…
mmmm – stuffed baked apples…..
Hey – followed your lead to the gym – hi ho hi ho!
Acorn squash is my favorite! Love the idea of stuffing it.
This looks great!! I made stuffed peppers tonight, we were on a similar wavelength!
I love stuffing my squash. Best fall dinner for sure.
OMG that is too funny about the salesman. I work in schools teaching presentations for my job and the other day, I was mistaken for a student. Seriously, a teacher almost gave me a detention for cutting class. I guess it’s a good thing now that we look so young.
Have a great trip !!
I’m totally making that! I have 20 of those acorn squash from our garden–looks delish and I think the kids will eat it. I made your baked macaroni and cheese last week and it was a huge hit.
I had a magazine salesmen ask me if my mom and dad were home not that long ago!
Looks yummy! Never made a stuffed squash. MUST TRY!
I LOVE making different variations of stuffed acorn squash. I also love stuffed pizza crust:)
i love squash! my favorite stuffed food is a calzone! yum-a-licious! and that’s hilarious about the salesman. i have things like that happen to me too… guess it’s good to look young, huh?
Loved your home siding salesman story. My daughter is your age and looks quite young. Until the last year or so, she was routinely asked if she was old enough to operate the emergency exit in the airplane’s exit row when she travels, and even asked to show ID at times. (You have to be FIFTEEN to sit there…) Once a flight attendant even came into the cockpit to tell the captain there was a girl in the seat “pretending to be 15″–only it was her dad flying the plane and he laughed and said, “Actually, she’s 23; she’s my daughter.” We still laugh about that one.
LOL about the salesman! Poor guy must have felt like a fool!
Wow. Bookmarking this to make ASAP.
what a tasty dinner!
hehe and I always get asked on the phone if “is your mum or dad home”….
LOL. Your alternative post names cracked me up!!
Ben cracks me up
When a door salesperson asks if my mom or dad is home (and assuming I don’t have any interest in the product being peddled), I say ‘No, sorry”, and the salesperson leaves. It’s an easy way to get out of buying something without being pressured
Oh, when I was volunteering at a middle school last week, one of the students asked me what grade I was in. He thought I was a really tall 6th grader! He was only about 15 years off…
Mushrooms!
Side note: my mum and dad were buying groceries once after my first year at college. Dad was paying, and of course they were treating themselves with a bottle of wine (celebrating the last bird out of the nest). He, age 48 at the time, was carded at the check-out. He still talks about it; it absolutely made his day/week/month/year.
LOL Squashing the Stereotypes? Sounds like a high school counseling seminar!
That baked acorn squash looks DELICIOUS!!! You come up with the tastiest recipes! I’m a huge fan of jambalaya and pizza
Funny salesman story!
I have also had something similar to that happen to me. The salesman was very insistent that I get the homeowner of the house so he could speak to him/her. He did not believe I am the homeowner. I think I am about your age.
I am a teacher and during my second year of teaching we had a new associate in our building. I was a little late getting back to my classroom (I teach at the high school level) and the associate was sitting in the back of the room. I thought it was rude she did not introduce herself or ask what she should be helping with in my classroom. A few minutes later I went up to her and asked her what her name was and told her who I was. She turned bright red and told me she thought I was a student the whole time and was waiting for the teacher to come into the classroom.
Stuffed Mushrooms!
When we moved into our house, one of our neighbors thought I was my husband’s daughter {supposedly}. Now, he’s only 4 years older than me! I think the guy was full of it, but it was hilarious! I also had a door to door salesman ask me if my dad was there once. The funny thing was, my dad happened to be over at the time! It was very confusing for everyone involved.
I love your microwave cheat to cook the acorn squash quickly. I adore stuffed squash but it just takes so much time. Thanks for the tip!
I just made stuffed squash last week. I stuffed it with black beans, chicken, tomatoes and whatnot. I also love stuffed peppers with orzo. I might have to make that this week! Stuff You – haha.
This looks AMAZING! I’m not even a big squash fan and I’m drooling. I think I’ll add it to my Thanksgiving line-up.
your list of titles is too cute
that squash looks amazing, we love stuffed squash but my fave is still just with some brown sugar & butter in the squash half…practically dessert!
ummmmm … if someone coming to my door asked me if my parents were home, i’d be so happy i’d probably kiss them!!! no, but really, appreciate the fact that you look young, you will be thrilled about it later in life i promise
Totally eating this recipe… sooner than later. I just got 6 acorn squash from my parents garden and need a new way to prepare them so the fiance quits complaining that I make squash too much… I can’t help it! I LOVE it!
I just have to comment on the looking young thing. I do look really really young (I’m 24 and have been mistaken for a pre-teen). The worse one is when I was at target buying mascara and the sales person asked me if I was old enough to be buying makeup. A) I was 23 years old so yes sir I am, B) there isn’t even an age when you can’t buy make up!!! It was mascara! Jeez. I said “Well, yes, I am old enough to by makeup. I like to look nice when I have to do presentations in graduate school.” Ha
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