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Preheat your oven to 400 F.
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Cut the acorn squashes in half.
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Using the tip of a sharp knife poke holes on the inside and outside of each half.
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Drizzle olive oil all over each half and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
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Take two 13x9 pans and spray with non stick spray.
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Put each squash half into the pan, cut side down and then fill the pan with about an inch of water.
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Bake in the preheated oven for 50-60 minutes or until fork tender.
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Then carefully remove the pans from the oven, remove the squash from the water and set aside to cool.
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Lower the oven temperature to 350 F and keep it on.
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Add the cottage cheese into a bowl.
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Mix in egg, garlic salt, pepper, and Italian seasoning.
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If your gorgonzola cheese is in block form go ahead and crumble now and add that into the bowl as well.
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If its already crumbled add it now.
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Mix well and set aside.
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If you need to boil your noodles go ahead and do that now according to the package directions.
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Once they are done, drain them.
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If you have the no boil kind then go on to the next step.
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In a large skillet cook the sausage over medium high heat until cooked through (no pink).
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Be sure to break it up into crumbles.
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Spoon the sausage out of the pan and into a bowl to set aside.
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You want to keep the grease in the bottom of the pan.
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In the same sausage pan with the grease, add the butter and flour and cook over medium heat.
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Stirring constantly, cook the butter and flour together until you reach a golden brown color.
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Be sure to scrape the yummy bits leftover from the sausage off the bottom of the pan.
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Season with salt and pepper to taste.
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Add the milk slowly to the butter flour mixture.
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Keep stirring until thickened, but still runny.
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Once it starts to thicken add the sausage back into the pan.
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Now you have a sausage gravy type mixture.
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Remove pan from heat and set aside.
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Scrape out the inside of the squash into a bowl, but be sure not to get the skin in it.
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Stir the squash so there arent any major lumps in it.
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Finally, its time to assemble!
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First put a layer of sausage gravy on the bottom of a 9x13 pan, then top it with a layer of noodles, then a layer of squash, then a layer of noodles, then all of the cottage cheese mixture, then a layer of noodles, then the rest of the squash and then top that with any remaining sausage gravy.
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Top it all off with the chopped walnuts and bake at 350 F for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown and bubbly.
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Enjoy!
