Squash Archives

Winter Panzanella

Jan 7, 2025 | Late Winter 2025, Recipes

This warm winter panzanella is made with the fabled seeds of the granada, or pomegranate, sourdough, root vegetables, squash, fresh parsley, and a bright grapefruit juice dressing.

Miso-Roasted Butternut Squash and Harvest Salad

Sep 26, 2023 | Fall 2023, Recipes

Our recipe for Miso-Roasted Butternut Squash and Harvest Salad features two of our favorite autumn ingredients, squash and apples, and checks all the boxes for seasonality and layers of texture and flavor.

Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky

Aug 30, 2023 | Late Summer 2023, Recipes

Lois Ellen Frank’s forthcoming cookbook, Seed to Plate, Soil to Sky, is a collection of plant-based recipes using ingredients indigenous to the Americas.

First Foods From Shiprock

Jan 16, 2023 | Foodshed, Late Winter 2023

Alexandria Bipatnath introduces Zachariah and Mary Ben, owners of the Shiprock-based Bidii Baby Foods, which specializes in creating greater access to traditional foods in the early childhood years.

Beans and Chicos

Jan 12, 2023 | Late Winter 2023, Recipes

Many recipes use bacon or ham hocks to flavor their beans, but sticking with a basic bean recipe, we impart smokiness with chicos, some fat with the bison tallow, and spice with red chile powder.

Nixtamalized Hominy Stew

Jan 12, 2023 | Late Winter 2023, Recipes

First developed in Mesoamerica over three thousand years ago, nixtamalization is a way of processing dried corn.

Crispy Bean Cakes

Jan 12, 2023 | Late Winter 2023, Recipes

Eat these alone as snacks, on top of salad greens, with eggs, or topped with grilled squash.

Grilled Butternut Squash

Jan 12, 2023 | Late Winter 2023, Recipes

Freddie Bitsoie exchanges the open fire for a stovetop grill in this simple-to-execute squash dish. This recipe would work with any kind of winter squash except spaghetti squash.

Butternut Squash and Blue Corn Tart

Jan 12, 2023 | Late Winter 2023, Recipes

This Butternut Squash and Blue Corn Tart recipe is a sweet treat that celebrates two of the Three Sisters.

Anasazi Beans with Chile Agave Glaze

Jan 10, 2023 | Late Winter 2023, Recipes

Sean Sherman uses tepary beans in this recipe, but they can sometimes be challenging to source, so I substituted another bean long cultivated in the Southwest—Anasazi beans.

Local Lexicon of Squash

Jan 10, 2023 | Foodshed, Late Winter 2023

In “Local Lexicon of Squash,” leticia gonzales visits with local growers and seed savers who share their expertise on the diversity of squash and the bounty of seeds being cultivated across the Southwest.

Cooking Fresh: Three Sisters Recipes

Jan 2, 2023 | Late Winter 2023, Recipes

These basic formulas are essential to completing more complex recipes featuring the Three Sisters. All of them can stand on their own or be added as side dishes to a meal—and making a pot of beans on Sunday is a great jump on meal prep for the week.

Late Winter 2023: Three Sisters

Jan 1, 2023 | Late Winter 2023

This issue of edible New Mexico shows us how the practice of intercropping squash, beans, and corn is more than a historical practice—these stories of the Three Sisters are stories in the present tense, stories where the past refracts the future.