Reddit mentions of Sheet Pan Suppers: 120 Recipes for Simple, Surprising, Hands-Off Meals Straight from the Oven

Oh man, are you me? So much support on the food issue. My husband is content to eat the same thing every day, while I start getting the food version of cabin fever and will start to gag if I have to choke down the same dinner over and over. He also is super picky -- any time I cook something new and he agrees to add it to the rotation is a celebratory event for me.

So this book has been really great, especially for the meals that include meat and veggies in the same pan. I also do a ton of crockpot cooking because I'm lazy.

One squash should make enough for 2 people. Recipes usually call for 1/2 squash per person. (My SigOt says more than enough for 2 people.) Once scraped, you can treat it like regular spaghetti, i.e., use spaghetti sauce, cheese, etc.

This is not a slowcooker recipe:

I just made a recipe the other day using one squash. Slice in half. If it's too difficult to slice in half, microwave it for 2-3 minutes and it will soften. Coat the insides with olive oil and then add salt and pepper to taste. Put the halves cut side down on a non-stick or parchment/foil covered sheet pan. Place on a low rack in the oven at 450 for 35 minutes, then check it for doneness. The edges should be a bit brown and the insides all the way to the edges should be soft. Throw it back in for 5-10 minutes if the outside is still firm and "unscrapable."

Meanwhile, prepare any spaghetti sauce you like. Ironically, I used a butternut squash spaghetti sauce. If you want to just pour it over the squash, just heat it up. If you want to make a bowl from the squash, put the sauce in a bowl big enough to hold the sauce plus scraped squash.

The recipe I was modifying was from Sheet Pan Suppers and called for mushrooms, but my SigOt doesn't like mushrooms so I substituted diced tomato.

When the squash is done, don't burn yourself. Scrape the innards out with a fork. Like I said above, leave some around the edges to support the skin if you want to use the squash as a bowl. Put the squash in the bowl with your sauce and anything else you want to add (If you add onion, I would brown it in a pan first and then add the diced tomatoes if you want them.) Scoop the mixture back into the squash bowls, add shredded or cut up pieces of mozzarella to the top of the mixture and put it back in the oven for approx. 10 minutes--until the mozzarella is slightly brown and the mixture is hot. Eat it.

This isn't a hard recipe and doesn't take very long, less than an hour.

....You put broccoli and cauliflower in a slow cooker?

Taco and ranch seasoning?

Why not get a simple recipe book instead of just guessing?

This should be a decent start:
http://www.amazon.com/Sheet-Pan-Suppers-Surprising-Hands-Off/dp/0761178422

I recommend a cookbook like below Sheet Pan Suppers - easy way to put your protein and veg on a single pan for roasting, easy to clean up. There’s several of these types of cookbooks out there, I happen to own this one so I’ll stand by it. And it gives you ideas for your own combinations once you get the hang of cooking time for various meats and veg

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Watch some classic Food Network TV - Ina Garten, Gina DeLaurentiis, Rachel Ray, Pioneer woman, Bobby Flay, Emeril ... Not only will you get recipes and ideas, you’ll pick up little tips about WHY you do certain things that you might not get from a straight recipe in a book or off the internet .