HUGE Hubbard Squash!

[OakLeaf]

I wondered about that. No saw ... do you have a claw hammer and a nail???

[Catrin]

I used an old large straight edge knife tonight and spent some quality time with that squash. I managed to finally cut it into thirds and THAT made it much easier to handle.

[Biciclista]

great thread. I usually waited for my husband to do it; or until a son visited. we have some awesome knives but I am not equal to the task. I'm glad you got the job done.

[shootingstar]

I can't imagine a huge hubbard squash. I recently had my Henckel's knife sharpened....so that I could cut into butternut squash. I cut it up to cook it (I stir fry it. It is delicious. No need to use sugar/sweetening agent at all.) and freeze bags of raw pieces for winter months. It's effort and requires rocking the knife slowly through the squash ..to cut it all the way through.

[Catrin]

I had no idea that Hubbards are so good! I've never really eaten squash before outside of the very rare acorn squash. I am converted, and I will be looking for a MUCH better knife.

[OakLeaf]

There are smaller varieties of Hubbard type squashes (and it sounds like, smaller specimens of whatever variety you got ). I grow Blue Ballet when the vine borers don't get 'em, and they're usually no more than 2-3 lbs.

[Catrin]

What I've seen in the store is smaller, so it was just the variety my friend planted. I've also tried spaghetti squash recently and that was pretty yummy as well - with a grass-fed beef bolognese sauce