Well, I've hidden our frozen squash bounty in pasta sauce

[conuly]

And I've hidden it in enchilada sauce, and normally I'd hide it in chili, but coming right after enchiladas is a bit weird. If the girls know there's squash, they won't eat it, but we got two pounds of it from the CSA! All the obvious options are out, but where else can I stick an ounce or two of the stuff? Running out of ideas here....

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[ironed_orchid]

Will they eat curry?

[conuly]

Usually.

[nicki]

Muffins?

[conuly]

They won't eat pumpkin muffins. But I've worked it out - I'll make pumpkin chia pudding for Jenn!

[adrian_turtle]

Oh, you mean winter squash! Can you put it in carrot cake? Not a full substitution, because you still need the texture of raw grated carrots, and I think you need to need to pre-cook and mash squash to use them for baking. But you can probably substitute 20-25% of the carrot for squash and nobody will notice. Or use squash puree instead of applesauce in something like a glorious morning muffin.

[conuly]

They won't eat pumpkin muffins. They're not really picky, but they really, really hate all kinds of squash.

(And summer squash, pureed and frozen? Blech!)

[adrian_turtle]

I meant the other way around. 75% carrot, so it has the carrot cake nature, and 25% winter squash. If it was summer squash, I could not imagine any way to hide it in baked goods. (Not that it's necessarily impossible, but I can't imagine it.)

[conuly]

Same way you hide carrots, you grate it finely, hence zucchini bread. Honestly, at a certain part of summer you'll do anything to get rid of the zucchini, up to and including playing doorbell ditch on unsuspecting neighbors. Well, I suppose you can always hand it out at the local food bank - there's one up the block. But they're not going to take frozen pureed squash of dubious provenance!

[dogstar]

puree it and stir it into hummus? Or guacamole?

[conuly]

Would you believe they're not big fans of guacamole either? And I'm already making a ton of hummus to use up black beans, I don't think they'll be so enthused after their tenth batch :)

But I worked it out - I'm making pumpkin chia pudding for Jenn.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Well... you could bake it, puree it, and use it like pumpkin to make pumpkin pie or pumpkin muffins (mix puree, white cake mix and spices.) Canned pumpkin is actually Hubbard squash anyway; they won't know the difference.

[conuly]

Pity it IS pureed, and they don't like pumpkin bread, muffins, pancakes, etc. They have this weird aversion to orange veggies.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Suppose you made the muffins with chocolate cake mix instead, or put dark chocolate and vanilla extract in the pumpkin pie?

[conuly]

I hate to tell you this, but they also don't very much like chocolate!

I worked it out, though. I'm gonna make a pumpkin chia pudding for my sister.

[conuly]

Except carrots, they eat those.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine makes lasagna sauce using both passed tomatoes and pureed pumpkin. She obviously does it for the different coloured layers, but since it's all eaten together in the end, I guess you could just mix pumpkin and tomato from the start?