Make the most of harvest season with these cozy winter squash recipes. Choose from acorn, butternut, delicata, pumpkin, and even spaghetti squash.

While acorn squash are winter squash, they are actually in the same family as zucchini. Unlike zucchini, they have a tougher outside skin and can be used interchangeably with butternut squash in ...

Winter squash is such a metaphor for life, isn’t it? Crack through its carapace-like shell and it’s little more than raw, bitter flesh, stringy and seed-laden. You’re a tough nut to crack ...

They may look intimidating, but cooking with winter squashes is quite easy. Here are five things you need to know and 14 recipes to try: Winter squash is actually harvested in the fall.

Is the skin of acorn squash edible, too? It’s best to harvest winter squash when they are hard and firm to the touch. This means that winter squash often have thick, leathery skin.

When we talk about winter squash we are distinguishing it from summer squash: zucchini and yellow summer squash. Think butternut, buttercup, Kabocha, delicata, acorn and others.

Here’s a little basic information to get started. Winter squash tend to include darker varieties such as pumpkin, spaghetti squash, acorn squash and butternut squash.

When stored correctly in cool, dark conditions (around 55-60°F with 50-70% humidity), raw winter squash can last well into the winter months and even into spring.