{"id":2343,"date":"2013-10-22T11:23:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2013-10-22T11:23:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T15:23:59","slug":"squash-mac-and-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/2013\/10\/22\/squash-mac-and-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Squash Mac and Cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2379\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2379\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2379 \" alt=\"mac and cheese\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hnetalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/mac-and-cheese-300x279.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Lisa Ubersax Tefft<\/p><\/div>\n<p>My husband doesn\u2019t eat squash. Wait, let me re-phrase that. My husband doesn\u2019t know he eats and likes squash!<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I went to the store and bought a large butternut squash and an acorn squash. I made an incredible acorn squash stew. I will post that later. I had about two cups of butternut left over. I heard of butternut mac and cheese, where there are chunks of squash in the macaroni. It was good \u2013 but still lots of cheese.<\/p>\n<p>I got my food processor out and put in some lower fat cheeses. I hit the on button \u2013 let it run until it was creamy and holey cow, it was amazing!! Easier and healthier than conventional macaroni and cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I did:<br \/>\n2 cups of butternut<br \/>\n2 tablespoons of whipped cream cheese with chives<br \/>\n2 tablespoons of low fat ricotta<br \/>\n\u00bc cup cheddar cheese (to sprinkle on top)<br \/>\nsalt and pepper to taste<\/p>\n<p>1. Put above ingredients in a blender or food processor. Blend until smooth and creamy.<br \/>\n2. Boil water for pasta of choice (1 cup).<br \/>\n3. Cook until just under firm or hard.<br \/>\n4. Use a non-stick spray to coat a casserole dish.<br \/>\n5. Drain pasta and mix with butternut mix.<br \/>\n6. Bake in the oven for 25 minutes \u2013 or until cheese is golden.<\/p>\n<p>Serving Size<br \/>\n1 serving (1 cup)<br \/>\nCalories: 111; Calories from Fat: 47%; Total Fat: 5.2g; Saturated Fat: 2.9g; Cholesterol: 19mg; Sodium: 113.5mg; Total Carbohydrates: 12.7g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese My husband doesn\u2019t eat squash. Wait, let me re-phrase that. My husband doesn\u2019t know he eats and likes squash! Yesterday I went to the store and bought a large butternut squash and an acorn squash. I made an incredible acorn squash stew. I will post that later. I had about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-cooking","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZZxW-BN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hnetalk.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}