Recipe: Baked Butternut Squash Puree

Making your own pumpkin or butternut squash or any other winter squash puree at home is a rewarding baking experience and an opportunity to reap the rewards of the joy of real food.

My Baked Butternut Squash recipe has exactly one ingredient: squash! Baked squash can be used for recipes that call for pureed pumpkin or butternut squash -- no need to use canned pumpkin ever again.

Soups and pumpkin pie made with homemade pumpkin or butternut squash puree are incredibly delicious. Try my Creamy Butternut Squash Soup recipe, which calls…