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Just tried this recipe and it turned out pretty good. I think the 425 degrees could be lessened since it started burning the smaller pieces but the ones that did turn out tasted great. Here's the recipe:

BUTTERNUT FRENCH FRIES

Fat-free, high-fiber, low-calorie French fries? Wow! Just grab a butternut squash, peel it, remove the seeds, and cut it into French fry shapes. Pat dry and sprinkle with kosher salt. Place on a baking sheet sprayed with nonstick spray, and then bake at 425 degrees for about 40 minutes, flipping halfway through, until crispy. TADA! Guilt-free fries with WAY fewer calories than regular ones. Yes!

I will have to try that.

sounds like what I do with sweet potatoes... I love butternut squash too though, may I suggest instead of just salt try a spice blend like cumin, brown sugar, salt, pepper, cayenne. Thats usually how I roll with it, after coating them in honey or maple syrup

...I tried making butternut pancakes the other day...but they wouldnt um cake lol...it was a mushy mess, they were tasty though lol. I think it was because of the kind of flour I used *shrug*

Squash in general are awesome.. love all the different types ( except spaghetti, not into the texture)

I've been meaning to experiment with the spaghetti.
If it's guilt free you can eat more.

I love spaghetti squash! its so unique! i make it for my mom and I all the time.

Spaghetti squash is very good for you and easy to prepare. I mix a bit of cannola, olive and peanut for frying. Good HDL's and high flame rate allows you too cook w/hotter oil thus keeping alot of the oil from soaking in the food your frying.

Squash--UGH!!! I can't even stand the smell, let alone the taste of it, no matter how it is disquised.

Don't you mean

Butternut FREEDOM fries

steltom saidSpaghetti squash is very good for you and easy to prepare. I mix a bit of cannola, olive and peanut for frying. Good HDL's and high flame rate allows you too cook w/hotter oil thus keeping alot of the oil from soaking in the food your frying.

Surely you know what "guilt free" fried anything could mean to me?

I just has sweet 'tater fries the other day at the beach .. I like 'em

What the heck is a butternut squash? Does it taste the same as the regular pumpkin squash? It definitely looks the same, sliced.

I might try it next time, and hmmm... I wonder if it can also be done to another common gourd species here - the Calabash/Bottle Gourd or what we call Upo.

PhoenixPhenom saidsounds like what I do with sweet potatoes... I love butternut squash too though, may I suggest instead of just salt try a spice blend like cumin, brown sugar, salt, pepper, cayenne. Thats usually how I roll with it, after coating them in honey or maple syrup

...I tried making butternut pancakes the other day...but they wouldnt um cake lol...it was a mushy mess, they were tasty though lol. I think it was because of the kind of flour I used *shrug*

I actually made it plain as I usually do when I try something new and it still tasted good.

Butternut squash is good. Yum. I'll have to try this sometime.

For Thanksgiving I usually make a butternut squash with a few green apples, some heavy whipping cream and a shot of brandy. It's pureed and creamy, a great addition to a November feast. Deeelish!

Tastes like butternut squash to me, but I love butternut squash. Yum.

Am making them as we speak. First batch just came out of the oven... YUMMY

I made them yesterday. I was in a terrible mood all day and was really irked when they came out of the oven all mushy (I know what I did wrong). But, in a huff I slopped them on my plate and discovered that, even though they were ruined, they still tasted like sweet, sweet butternut squash and I was quite happy.