Despite the summertime temperature, I was happy to find a farmer from Mississippi with a table full of acorn squash at the farmers market last week.

These dark green ribbed squash looked to be artistically adorned with orange hearts. The farmer helped me select the best fresh squash to enjoy the first taste of fall for dinner. He told me that he would have butternut squash the following week, so I marked my calendar to go back. Butternut squash is an autumn treat with a sweet, nutty flavor that makes it an ideal ingredient for a satisfying soup.

After making two meals with fall squash, I was reminded of the first time I tried spaghetti squash. Long ago, when my children were preschool students, their teacher did a lesson on this large yellow squash that excited them so much that we tried

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