Warning: Acorn EXPERIMENT in progress!!!

Acorn Squish Pancakes
So my thoughts were.... I like potato pancakes I wonder if the same can be done for one of my new favorite friends the acorn squish!



Cooking with the Scientific Method!!- Cause I'm a big science dork!

Question- Can my acorn squash be made into an amazing pancake like creature??
Background/Research- Squish is delicious... and I like pancakes, and I know how to make latkes and potato cakes...
-Most squishes have a decent amount of starch, it should hold well together.
Hypothosis-If I add enough flour and eggs to my cooked and mashed squish it will hold together in a hot pan and will taste delicious!
Experiment-

1. Microwave squish til tender and come out of skin uncovered to release moisture
2. Mash squish and grate onion into the mash
3. Add 3/4 cup flour and 1/4 cup egg beater
4. Add salt, garlic powder, and nutmeg.
5. Heat a pan rubbed with OO
6. Glop (Glop is a technical term of course) a spoonful or two and spread it out to make it round
7. Wait til the Glop firms up and starts to brown
8. Flip and plate
9. EAT

Anaylsis- Great gold color, Smells great, Tasty, not as firm in the middle as I'd like though. Consistancy is really lacking and is still kinda fibrious and stringy.
Flavor 7.5/10, Consistancy 5/10 Apperence 8/10 Smell 8.5/10= Overall 7.25/10
Results/Suggestions- Squish needs more cooking to pull the liquid out and needs to be put in a food processor with the onion to get the consistancy right.

What?! My acorn squish pancakes/fritters didn't turn out bad but not great.... hmmm...

So I had a conversation with myself...

• HOW TO MAKE THEM GREAT?!?!?
• Top them with SHRIMP!!!
• (Shrimp can be 'not bad but great' still... How to make the shrimp great!??!!)
• Add hot sauces!!!
• ... K... but even tasty RedHot and Cholula don't make things GREAT... they are good... but would you really say GREAT??? hmm?
• Ohhhh screw it!! Add garlic and butter... anything is GREAT soaked in garlic and butter...
• Yup... that will work

Soooo I gave a few garlic cloves a rough smash and chop and cooked it in a pan with water* and RedHot til soft. Then tossed in a bunch of shrimp and butter for flavor! Let the sauce cook down and the shrimp get pink and firm.

 * This method has alot of flavor without have the extreme amount of butter that other scampi like methods have!