There’s nothing fancy about this Squash and Onions recipe. Maybe that’s why I love it so much.
It’s simple, delicious, home-cooked goodness at its absolute best.
Especially this time of year when squash are beginning to make themselves well known in many gardens. In other words, prolific!
We actually fiddled around so much this spring that we failed to get our garden planted. We had the best of intentions by plowing the garden area, planning all of the vegetables we’d be planting, and everything just short of buying and planting the plants.
Once we started looking at our summer calendar, we remembered how it had worked the last three years.
We work ourselves to death to get the garden planted and ready and then, we end up going on vacation right as it begins to come in. We come home to the garden we’ve tended like a baby being overtaken by weeds.
I have to be honest. At this point, some of the fun of my garden has worn thin.
Then, as the hot, humid air just seems hang thick during the later days of July and August, my Georgia garden lost every bit of the charm it could muster
So, this year, once we looked our calendar, we decided we’d be the best customers our local farmer’s market has ever seen. We’re taking this year off from the summer vegetable garden. We planted wildflowers for the honeybees instead.
Do I regret it?
Yes and no.
As I visit friends and see their beautiful gardens beginning to produce gorgeous vegetables, my heart gives a bit of a lurch just thinking of all that I’m missing.
But then, as I drive home from the farmer’s market with tons of delicious produce I just bought from my local farmers, I’m pretty glad of our decision.
So, to make a long story short, whether your squash comes from your personal garden, that of your local farmers, or off the shelf at your grocery store, make this super easy and delicious Squash and Onions recipe.
Here’s my oh so simple Squash and Onions recipe. You’ll love it!
- 2 tablespoons butter or olive oil
- 5 medium yellow squash, sliced
- ½ medium sweet onion, diced
- salt and pepper to taste
- Melt butter over medium-low heat in a skillet. Add squash and onions and cook until onions are translucent and squash has become fork tender, about 8-10 minutes.
- Remove from heat. Add salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve warm.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
You may also love these squash recipes:
Sauteed Squash
Squash Casserole
We make this too, but we remove seeds from larger squash and we add a bag of frozen corn. It’s my favorite.
Thank you, Robyn.
My MIL does this same recipe. we love it cooked down to mush 🙂
This is how I cook my squash! On occasion though, I do add a little bacon to it. 😀
I will be fixing this as soon as our squash arrive. You know I pinned this!
Well…we just picked our first squash this past weekend and I cooked them tonight.
I added just a little sprinkle of garlic powder (cause that’s what my step-mom does)
and it is so good!!
I’m pinning this to my board: Tried It & Liked It
This is incredible! Even my dog loved it..
I make the yellow squash and onion very often, but for a change I scramble a few eggs into the squash. Delicious!
thats the way i remembered my mom preparing it,.with two scramble eggs mix in.
Nice recipe and easy! Going to make it tonight for these whiny firemen I work with. Sure it’ll be a hit!
This is how my mama and grandma fixed squash as far back as I can remember. Now, I make it for my husband. It’s just good and simple. Sometimes, if we had it, mama would use a little bacon grease in with the butter and it made it even better!
This recipe brings back memories from my childhood. I remember walking into the kitchen and smelling the squash and onion cooking. Mom always added bacon grease along with the butter. I know the bacon grease is not very healthy for us, but it was so delicious!!