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Here’s a look back at the food, cooking, and recipe posts that appeared earlier in the week here on HuggingtheCoast.Com…please join us tomorrow for the start of next week’s exciting food features!

Looking Back: 10/25/2010-10/31/2010

Tuesday: 11 Savory Squash Recipe Ideas To Celebrate the Hardy Vegetable

Thursday: 45 Exciting Pumpkin Recipe Ideas For Last Minute Deliciousness

Sunday: You are here

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A popular choice for Halloween and Thanksgiving parties, pumpkin is one of the most festive members of the squash family, even when it’s not on important jack-o’-lantern duty.

(Click here to enjoy 11 recipes that use other kinds of squash.)

Often used as an ingredient in sweet and savory dishes during the colder part of the year, canned pumpkin is the most common way people cook pumpkin, although pureed fresh pumpkin in most cases works just as well.

Below are 45 pumpkin recipes that will help you enjoy the great taste of pumpkin this season, whether you use it fresh or canned. As you can see, pumpkin is a surprisingly versatile vegetable which can be used for much more than the traditional pumpkin bread and pumpkin pie recipes you may already have tried.

Have fun!

• Our Homestyle Pumpkin Pancakes Recipe

• Pumpkin and Roasted Corn Soup Recipe

• Pumpkin Risotto With Scallops and Thyme Recipe

• 20 Fresh and Canned Pumpkin Recipe Ideas: Beyond Pumpkin Pie and Pumpkin Bread

• 22 More Fresh and Canned Pumpkin Recipe Ideas: Sweet Pumpkin Desserts and Savory Meals

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(Photo Credit: Black Cat With Pumpkin by Cobalt123.)

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Isn’t it ironic that squash are some of the least squashable (squishable?) vegetables around?

From the mighty butternut squash, the flying saucer-esque pattypan, to the yellow-bellied crookneck squash, there’s probably a variety (or two) of the mighty squash to please almost anyone.

Best of all, since squash are available in a wide variety of interesting shapes and patterns, they can be as pleasing to the eye as party centerpieces as they eventually will be to your stomach.

Below are 11 wonderful squash recipes to help you make the most of the squash you find in your garden, farmer’s market, or supermarket.

Also, don’t forget to join us again a little later in the week when we’ll be sharing 45 exciting pumpkin recipe ideas to help you celebrate one of the most popular members of the hardy squash family.

(Sing it now: “We are family. I got all my cucurbitas with me!”)

Enjoy!

• Lamb Meatball Stew With Delicata Squash and Lemon Couscous Recipe (Pictured Above)

• Rosemary Summer Squash and Green Pepper Hash Recipe

• Chicken, Olive, and Asiago Triangolari With Sherry-Braised Fennel Recipe

• Italian Food Series: Turkey and Cipolline Stuffed Mushrooms Recipe

• Spiced Butternut Squash Apple Soup Recipe

• Delicata Squash Mezza Luna Recipe

• Seared, Wild Mushroom Dusted Shrimp & Scallops With Spaghetti Squash, Porcini Oil, & Grana Padano Shavings Recipe

• Creamy Butternut Squash and Shrimp Pasta Bake Recipe

• Comfort Food: Creamy Chive Yellow Squash Recipe

• How to Prepare and Cook Spaghetti Squash

• Deep Fried Squash Blossoms With Minced Shrimp Recipe

Please join us soon to read our newest daily food and cooking feature on HuggingtheCoast.Com: 45 Exciting Pumpkin Recipe Ideas.

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