Butternut Squash

As autumn turns to winter my thoughts turn to comfort foods and in particular home made soups. I love making soups as they are really easy and tasty and one of my favourite ingredients at this time of year is the Butternut Squash. A Butternut squash is a type of winter squash. It has a sweet, nutty taste that is similar to pumpkin. It has yellow skin and orange fleshy pulp. When ripe, it turns increasingly deep orange, and becomes sweeter and richer. It grows on a vine. It is rounded at the bottom and then thinner at the top and looks a bit like a pumpkin on the outside with a similar type skin. It's a really easy vegetable to work with. When I put it in a ...  Read the complete review

I knew of the butternut squash and had seen it on the Marks and Spencer adverts featured in a Risotto, but I hadn't tasted it more than once until recently... I bought a squash from Tesco, medium size for about £1.30. It proceeded to sit in the fridge for a couple of weeks until I finally decided to put it to use. The great thing about squash is it keeps very well in the fridge, especially if you haven't cut into it. Preparing the squash is quite simple; give it a good peel untill the orange flesh can be seen, chop and scoop out the seeds from the larger part. Chop into pieces depending on what you're doing with it. My first recipe was ...  Read the complete review

Butternut squash is a vegetable I had heard of but never tried until relatively recently. It is one of those vegetables that I looked at many times in the supermarket but never put it into my trolley, there was something odd almost funny looking about it. To be honest it always looked to me like one of those "rude" vegetables that are made fun of, they resemble the gourd famous in the Life of Brian. I originally bought Butternut Squash to use to make vegetable purees for my youngest son, about 4 months ago. I had read in articles that it would blend down very well into a puree and would make an excellent first food and indeed it did. When I bought ...  Read the complete review

Butternut Squash is one of the few fruits and vegetables that until recently I wasn't very familiar with. I bought one from the supermarket though and have since then found out a lot of recipes for it so that I could try it out, it was pleasantly surprising. Some of it's most common uses are in Stews, curries or pasta dishes plus it can be used in the same way potatoes are, i.e. Mashed so it's a great way to slip a bit of extra nutrients to your kids inside their mash or to simply liven up the taste a bit. Now then like with most vegetables you need to be careful when choosing it to make sure that you get a good one. Most people, me included, make the mistake ...  Read the complete review

It's official - the ninth of April is "Gays and Butternut Squash" day. I kid you not. I'm currently in the middle of re-thinking my awful diet that is totally void of mostly anything good for you. In this re-think I have discovered a few nice items, so I'm now totally up for grabbing the oddest looking item when I'm at Tesco to try it out. Gay and Butternut Squash day began like any other. Work, where I tell everyone to go do horrid things to themselves, then a joyous jaunt to the land of Tesco goodness. While there I spotted this odd looking and even weirder named object- The Butternut Squash. Liking butter, nuts and ...  Read the complete review