Wild Rice Stuffed Acorn Squash

Definitely going into the meal rotation. Made the rice as per the recipe, but had a delicata squash, sometimes called sweet potato squash. Milder flavoured squash but paired well with the rice. Because I only had one squash, there was lots of leftover rice, but also means I have a side for another night.

I had too much filling for my squash, so I just hollowed it out and mixed it in lol. Tasted like a lighter, fresher stuffing/dressing! I got a lot of compliments on it

Tastes like fall. I thought there was too much celery and apple, but a family member thought they were fine.

I didn’t have onion so I used garlic. I feel like some mozzarella cheese could bring it together more. But it reminded me of thanksgiving. Yummy indeed

Skipped the fruits and made with mushrooms instead. Liked the idea and everything tasted good, but it didn't really harmonize completely. Found the texture of acorn squash a little starchy for me personally and we'll try this again baking smaller chunks of the squash to out the flavor all through it and having the filling separate. That said the halves are very fancy looking. 😁 VERY filling - made two squashes for two people and there's half the dish leftover. Will likely reheat in the oven. My partner liked the skin a lot, which is edible!