When I was a kid me and my brothers would fly the pattypan squash around like flying saucers. My Mom would cook them and we would eat the flying saucers without us knowing it. The squash became harder and harder to get throughout the years. I didn't know how to cook them and I thought you had to peel them, like spaghetti squash. So I asked my Mom how to cook them and did they have to be peeled. She chuckled and said that it was easy and no need to peel just cook them like yellow squash.