so, if you have spent anytime in the midwest, then you know about the love affair that exists between mid westerners and gourds in the fall. Here's a pretty simple , severly tasty gourd dish thats sure to win friends and influence people.

Stuffed Acorn Squash

Ingredients:

1 or 2 eggs

bread crumbs

fake sausage or real sausage

2 acorn squash (i reccomend acorn, but other types of squash work, just not as well)

all of the vegetables that you would want to put in it i reccomend carrots, celery, onion, and peppers, but get creative with it.

vegetable stock

cut the squash in half , dig out the seeds and place the squash on a cookie sheet (the open squash part facing upwards). Bake at 375 for about 40 minutes. check the softness of the squash with a fork. its sorta like when yer cooking potatos. ya know, you stab them with the fork to see if they are soft enough to eat. same thing with the squash.

cook the sausage in a pan, and make sure to fully cook it.

In a mixing bowl combine all of the vegetables (make sure to cut them tiny). then add your cooked sausage. then add your bread crumbs. its hard for me to tell you exactly how much bread crumbs to add. but just think stuffing (like thanks giving, it should be like that consistency). then add the 1 cup of vegetable stock, and the two eggs. mix this all together really well. if at this point your mixture appears to be dry add more veg. stock. if it appears to be to watery add more bread crumbs. then season it with whatever you want. salt and pepper are fine. finally add cheese if you wish (i prefer it with cheese).

put the mixture in the gourd (so that its heaping), and stick the gourd back in the oven at 375 for about 25 minutes, or until the top of the stuffing is crusty.

get creative with it, you can put anything in it you want to. go team go