Does your family eat squash vegetables/fruit?

Love all squash except spaghetti and yellow squash. Butternut squash is something I could eat everyday. DH wasn't a fan until he had it roasted and now he loves it. Same thing for zucchini, although admittedly he loves it more in zucchini bread or muffins than cooked as a side. Cucumbers and watermelons are favorites as well!

My absolute favourite squash is yellow summer squash. They're a popular vegetable down here in NC and across the South. My favorite way to cook them is sliced along with a sweet onion and sauteed in a skillet until both the squash and the onions caramelize. Oh my goodness, these are SO good you'll be tempted to bitch slap yo momma. 

These are especially good with Vidalia onions, but the Walla Wallas or Hawaiian ones are really great, too. If I can't get any of those, I get the larger yellow onions, not the small storage onions with the brown skins that are super tart and make you cry. I never buy those anymore. I cook with the large sweet onions, red onions, and shallots. 

My second favourite way to serve yellow summer squash is squash casserole. Pepperidge Farm Cornbread stuffing mix, half on the bottom of the casserole dish,  parboil the squash and onions, drain, mix with cream of mushroom soup and sour cream and diced carrots, pour into casserole dish and top with remainder of the dry stuffing mix. This is a signature dish for holidays. Squash casserole is famous throughout the South and a staple at cafeterias and meat and threes. Some kinds don't use the sour cream, but I prefer the casserole with the condensed cream soup (some recipes use cream of chicken or cream of celery--we used to use cream of chicken until we subbed the mushroom after running out of the chicken, and YUM!) 

For Thanksgivings when dh and I don't cook, dh still loves for me to make this casserole, and we eat it for our dinners until it's gone. It's a great meatless dish if you don't use the cream of chicken. It's very hearty. I make up a huge pan as well as my cherry cranberry sauce and most years at least a small turkey breast so we can have sandwiches. I do this for our dinner usually the Friday after Thanksgiving, and we eat leftovers until everything gets eaten up. We look forward to this all year. 

My "adopted" sister just had major surgery, so to make Thanksgiving stress free for her (she hosts because she has the space) my mom, aunt (if she can get off--she's a nurse) dh, me, and my sister's husband are going to Cracker Barrel for Thanksgiving lunch. We all love Thanksgiving, and they're serving turkey with all the sides, plus pumpkin pecan streusel pie and pecan pie. I know our gourmet Thanksgiving meals are so much tastier, but dh and I are just so thankful to be so near family now after years of living out of state, too far to travel for both Thanksgiving and Christmas. We don't care what we eat. 

Sauteed squash and zucchini are great. I also love to grill summer squash, zucchini, onions and red bell peppers that I mix with a bit of minced garlic and red wine vinegar. I like zucchini a lot, but I'm not a big fan of zucchini baked goods.

I'm not as thrilled with fall squashes. It's the texture mostly. I also don't like my squash vegetable sides to be sweet. I make a mean homemade pumpkin pie, but I'm not a huge fan of pumpkin. It's just everywhere. It's like this decade's cilantro or pesto. I do love acorn squash with salt and pepper, but they're harder to cut, and I just don't think about serving them a lot. I really prefer broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, turnip greens and collards. 

I do really like turnips and parsnips. The Southern way to eat turnips is boiled with some Wyler's chicken bouillon flakes. 

I haven't had a chance to try savory squash soups, but I love carrot soup and soup in general, so I would probably like it.

Only Cathleen doesn't like cucumbers.

Simon and I love courgettes (zucchini) but no one else does. My favourite is to sauté with onions

Melons are popular with everyone - honeydew, cantaloupe, watermelon...

Pumpkin - everyone loves in pumpkin muffins and pumpkin gingerbread. Annabelle doesn't like pumpkin pie (but she doesn't like pie). Pumpkin soup was not a hit.

Butternut squash - the girls don't like it, DH, Simon and I like it with apples

I don't think we've ever had acorn squash. Spaghetti squash wasn't a big hit

I love butternut pumpkin/squash. Don't mind zucchini or spaghetti squash, but my family, not so much... Well one will have it, the other two haven't even tried it.

I love all kinds of squash. I've been slowly bringing DH around over the past several years - he will now eat sauteed zucchini or roasted butternut or acorn squash. My kids still won't eat any of those things.

Squash is and always has been my favourite vegetable. We order a box of organic vegetables every week and they have a lot of very cool squah varieties. Whenever I'm making something on the bbq, I'll throw a whole one on.

WAIT... Is watermelon in the squash family? And cucumber too? Because I've always said that watermelon tastes like cucumber... And people have told me I was crazy.

We eat squash but not often. I like butternut squash in soups and I love to roast squash of any variety. Watermelon is my all time favorite fruit in the summer. Ripe, red, juicy and with salt!

I like squash - I've liked it every way I've tried it - but my husband doesn't. So I just make a small portion of whatever for me. It's very nutritious and takes lots of different flavors well.

Yes we do. Butternut, acorn, summer, zucchini and pumpkin. Dh doesn't like pumpkin, but even the dogs love it

We also love watermelon and cucumbers!

I love all types of squashes.

My daughter will only eat melons and cucumbers! She will rarely eat pumpkin things.

I make a lot of zucchini and yellow squash.. she will tolerate it.

We eat all of those things. We have stuffed zucchini boats, spaghetti using spaghetti squash as noodles, butternut squash soup, creamy zucchini basil soup, the squash casserole M in Carolina mentioned above - all of it. My mom told me that whenever the extended family gathers at her house, my family is often the one that actually eats the many fruits and veggies put out. 

Zucchini is the only squash we eat. Otherwise, we eat a lot of fruits and veggies everyday.

We love squash, especially roasted. My husband has come to tolerate cucumber but it took awhile.