Roasted Acorn Squash with Fennel Sausage and Apples

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Roasted Acorn Squash with Fennel Sausage and Apples

It's been one of those weeks. 

Things I Learned This Week While Living In The South: 

1. Dusting off talking points from your youth to validate your fear of being persecuted based solely on your sexual preference or religious beliefs and explaining these to your more conservative Southern friends drives one to seek solace in failed fudge that is housed in your 3AM snack box (otherwise known as my refrigerator).  

2. While calmly examining suspicious moles you find a sense of great relief comes over you when you realize that it is not an oddly shaped mole. But it is in fact just a speck of the above mentioned fudge that has somehow managed to secure itself to your abdomen.   

3. There is a soon to be opened amazing burger place in downtown Winston Salem that due to friends of friends you were able secretly hang out in while binge eating nachos, drinking beers, and watching someone across the table act out "crack whore" in a new adult mash up of Pictionary and Charades. 

And because it is Fall and that requires Fall like foods I found myself this morning roasting squash and watching my stories on the tv.  

Roasted Acorn Squash with Fennel Sausage and Apples

ingredients

1 Acorn Squash

2 Apples of your choosing

1 Fennel Pork Sausage

Chinese Five Spice

Salt/Pepper To Taste

2 Tablespoons Olive Oil

Side note: Fennel Sausage was bought at my local grocery store - Lowes Foods. Find the amazing list of sausages available here. I used the No. 2 The Godfather for this recipe. It's a pork sausage seasoned with fennel, anise, salt and pepper. 

instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and prepare small baking dish or sheet tray.

2. Remove casing of uncooked sausage. Break up sausage into smaller pieces and set aside. Peel, core, and dice apples. Set aside with sausages.

3. Bring medium sized non stick pan or cast iron skillet to medium high heat with 1 T of olive oil. Carefully place sausage and apple into pan. Sprinkle chinese five spice on top. Let sausage and apple brown while stirring occasionally for about 8 mins. Remove from heat and set aside.

4. Slice squash in half and remove seeds. Place squash halves on prepared baking dish or sheet. Brush inside of squash with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper.

5. Remove sausage/apple mixture from pan and fill squash halves with mixture. Place filled squash in oven. Cook until squash is cooked through and easily pierced with a fork. About 20 mins.

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