American: What is a Kershaw?

This is a kershaw or a cushaw!

There are different opinions on what this is:

• Mountain Man in Cana, Va says it is a cross between a pumpkin and a squash.

• Another opinion is that it is a cross between a zucchini and a pumpkin. 

• Another opinion is that it is a Tennessee sweet potato squash. 
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• Also claimed by Louisiana and Tennessee

It is a winter heirloom squash. In the crookneck squash family. 

My personal photo above

  

  

  

RECIPES BELOW:

LINK TO Lindsey's mystery squash soup

LINK TO CHICKENS IN THE ROAD Spiced cushaw pie

   

LINK TO A GROWING SEASON autumns-golden-harvest-squash/

LINK TO Indiana and Georgia cushaw squash pies

Substitutes for Kershaw would be Butternut or Delicata.  Photos below. 

Butternut

  

Delicata

  

Butternut and Kershaw have really tough skins and are tough to crack open.  I peel mine with a "Farberware" peeler (Wimpy peelers don't work).  My sister-in-law Patricia who made the Kershaw pies baked the Kershaw in the oven until the skin came off.  

13 HALLOWEEN Cocktails incuding the Corpse Reviver! SLIDESHOW AND RECIPES

    

    

    

    

LINK TO Saveur Halloween Recipes

Appetizers: from chatelaine.com

LINK TO APPETIZERS FROM CHATELAINE

ITALIAN: Veal Piccata and Cannoli - Secrets of a Restaurant Chef

http://www.foodnetwork.com/secrets-of-a-restaurant-chef/the-secret-to-veal-piccata/index.html

ITALIAN: Hot and Spicy by Giada

LINK TO HOT AND SPICY BY GIADA

NOTE:  Love Giada but not the treatment of her and many of the chefs on Foodnetwork.com.   

• They fired Paula Deen for nothing and now are running (for example, today 6 episodes of "Unwrapped" in a row). Since they don't have the Deen family to post anymore they are running out of material and running 9 year old episodes (This episode is from 2004 but I think the recipes are great and applicable to today's cooks).
• They don't post photos a lot on the recipe pages (especially on the older ones - saving space on servers) - so we can't see what the finished dish looks like so I have used some GENERIC PHOTOS HERE if I couldn't locate somewhere else. 

EVERYDAY ITALIAN

Hot & Spicy


Giada invites a few friends over for dinner with a spicy

 bite, from appetizer through dessert. Her delicate angel 

hair pasta gets a little "diavolo" with red pepper, and 

even her rich chocolate mousse has some delicious 

heat. 

Recipes in This Episode

Spicy Chicken

Fiery Angel Hair Pasta

Chili Oil

Wicked Hot Chocolate Mousse

ITLALIAN: Ina Garten - Get your Italian recipe fix here: 85 Italian recipes from the Barefoot Contessa - VIDEOS TOO

LINK TO RECIPES BELOW PHOTOS

LINK TO INA'S RECIPES - 85 OF THEM

FOOD AND WINE: Hot melted sandwiches SLIDESHOW with recipes!!

http://www.foodandwine.com/slideshows/hot-melted-sandwiches