 I love winter squash and butternut is one of my favorites mostly because it's got that long slender neck that doesn't have seeds in it so today I've cut the neck off the squash I sliced it into rounds and you notice I've left the skin on because did you know that the skin on butternut squash is edible and it's so delicious when you roast it in the oven you're gonna love the texture it's just a little tiny bit chewy and I don't know it just really adds great flavor to the squash so I've cut the neck off my butternut squash I've got my oven at 400 degrees and I have some oil ready to coat my squash with this one I've got from the neck that's round but then you've got the bottom and you know you won't be able to slice rounds because all the seeds of this butternut squash are in the bottom bulbous part so I'm gonna clean out these seeds and then I'm just going to slice it into half rounds any kind of spoon will work to scrape out the seeds but if you have a grapefruit a grapefruit spoon that has that little serrated edge that works really really well so I'm just gonna push those seeds right over to the side and slice this squash into half rounds probably about half inch thick so once you've got your slices ready to put on the baking sheet just dip a brush into your oil and brush both sides of your squash slices with the oil and then I'm going to sprinkle these slices liberally with some salt and at that point they're ready to go into the oven 400 degrees for 10 minutes and after 10 minutes flip them over and then it takes just another 10 or 15 minutes you'll know those squash rounds are ready to come out of the oven when you flip them over they're nice and golden brown just like this and you can see that the skin is a little bit brown and they're ready to eat nice and tender when you put the fork through how easy is that 20 to 25 minutes in the oven and you didn't even have to get the skin off the squash before you put it in so I really hope you'll try eating butternut squash with the skin on I am Sue Dodin sharing good food for Goodlite 365