Josh and I spent the last five days in Southern California, celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary (which included two full days in at Disneyland!). We got home yesterday afternoon, and by this Wednesday evening of this week, Josh will be down in Portland for work. For a week and a half.
What this means is that I really wanted to make dinner tonight. After five days of vacay and an upcoming nine days by myself, I wanted to make something Fall-ish and cozy and even a little more involved than normal for a Monday (today was an in-service day at work, so I got off work earlier than normal, so I had more time than normal once I got home).
The final product was this delicious recipe of Butternut Squash and Sausage-Stuffed Shells. Yum! It was full of sweet Italian sausage and ricotta and Parmesan cheese. The butternut squash puree was fabulous - although I did pull the squash and onions from the oven after about 45 minutes, rather than the 50-60 that the recipe called for since they were more than fork-tender at that point.
I liked this dish a lot, but Josh wasn't such a big fan. He liked the shells and the stuffing, but not the squash puree (however, he did say that he liked the texture of it). I liked all of it! I probably won't make it again exactly like the recipe, but I might play around with other sauces for it while still using the same stuffing mix, The shells were too good to discard this recipe completely, so we'll see what happens! Next time, I'd also add a lot more spinach than in the recipe (spinach wilts down so much!).
By the way, here's a sneak peek of the next blog post: Foods of Disneyland! Keep an eye out for another post in the next day or so featuring the delicious things we in the Magic Kingdom!
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