Get to know this winter squash that's flavor packed and highly nutritious. It also adapts to any cooking method you choose, from roasting to stewing. Alpha Smoot Among the vivid array of squashes ...

If your usual squash of choice is butternut, consider this a PSA for its Japanese cousin, the kabocha. You can identify a kabocha squash by its shape, which is rounded and a little bit squat.

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Anna Thomas, a few canvas bags hanging on one arm, wanders the rows of the Ventura farmers market just eight hours before her guests are to sit around the table in the soaring great room of her home ...

Before serving, the kabocha is seasoned with white shoyu, sugar and a dash of mirin, then cooked in a temperature that’s brought up quickly to ensure the green remains. Nowadays, Fukui features the ...

Halfway through a bright, breeze-driven November morning, in the open kitchen of a high-ceilinged wooden house in Topanga, about five miles inland and up the Santa Monica Mountains from the Pacific ...

This sweet and savory kabocha pumpkin recipe is marinated in soy sauce and cooked in dashi until tender and seasoned to the core. Kabocha, which literally means "pumpkin" in Japanese is a variety of ...

The first time I tried kabocha was in a fancy tempura restaurant in Kyoto. It was one of those rare food epiphanies that come along once every few years: the perfect unity of sweet (kabocha is ...