Stuffed Acorn Squash

It's another Foodie Friday!

Well, only the 2nd that I've written, but hey, the second starts the ball rolling!

It's been another week of unexciting food adventures.  I cooked some homemade mac and cheese and chicken on Sunday, and I made so much that Fiance and I were eating the leftovers until Wednesday evening.  Last night we went out to one of our comfort spots for dinner.  So I think I might talk about something I made towards the beginning of last week.

My stuffed acorn squash!

Originally, it started out as a completely different dinner.  I was feeling lazy in the midst of having a busy schedule, so one night I just decided to cut up some chicken breasts, throw them in a crockpot with some apple cider, a dash of apple cider vinegar (it brings out the sweetness in the apple cider), and some spices, and just let it cook.  Let me tell you- it came out so delicious.  We ate it with kale and rice, I think?

But then I had been looking at recipes that included acorn squash.  Most of them involved stuffing them with sausage, but I thought- "hey, I have all this chicken.  Why not stuff the squash with that instead?"  So I cut up some celery, red onion, apple, and chopped some pecans.  I added some sweetened dried cranberries, and sauteed them up with the chicken.  I had already preheated my oven, cut my squash in half and scooped out the seeds.  The squash was in the oven baking.

After 20 mins, I removed the squash, and with some brown rice that I had made earlier, and the chicken mix, I stuffed the squash.  I drizzled with a little olive oil (though I bet butter would've been tastier.  Making that note for next time), and let it bake in the oven for 15 mins.

All I had to do after that was put it on the plate.  I sadly do not have pictures because I was so excited to eat it that the thought didn't cross my mind before I dug in.  Fiance had looked at me digging in and had asked "Do you want to take a picture of mine?"  I promptly told him it was too good and I was too hungry to take the time!  Oops!

This recipe was so easy, and I don't really use measurements anymore when I cook, unless I am following a very complicated and/or specific recipe.  It's become easier for me to do this as I've gotten older.  Years of cooking on my own, and in more recent years- cooking for me and Fiance- have made my general cooking senses become pretty accurate.  Not to mention, I come from a long line of good cooks!

What's been your latest cooking adventure?