Chilli-roasted squash

There are a few recipes throughout the book featuring squashes and pumpkins in various guises. The most common way for them to show up on a Paradiso menu, however, is treated fairly simply and used as a secondary part of a dish or on the side. This is true at home too, and in New Zealand where I first made their acquaintance. There, many dinners were accompanied by huge wedges of pumpkin (Crowns, usually), slowly roasted until meltingly soft and eaten with butter, skins and all. A lovely wa