Definition of butternut squash
: a smooth somewhat bottle-shaped buff-colored winter squash (Cucurbita moschata) with usually orange flesh
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There's a selection of English pasties – pastries filled with steak and potato, meatball and mozzarella, butternut squash and Parmesan, or roasted chicken and tomato confit with olives.
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That night’s vegetarian option picked its own outfit: gnocchi with butternut squash, mushrooms and spinach in brown butter.
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Fill at least half your tray with vegetables and fruits, a quarter or less with whole grains or colorful starchy veggies like sweet potatoes and butternut squash, and a quarter or less with protein, Hunnes says.
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Add a little seasonal sweetness to your usual potato gratin with butternut squash.
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The adults from Troop 118 also competed and won the Golden Spoon in the adult competition for their meal, which included butternut squash rings, stuffed with green apple curry.
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The rack of lamb was tender, if unremarkable in flavor, and perked up wonderfully with an assemblage of delectable sweet potato gnocchi, butternut squash, crunchy lacinato kale and Parmesan.
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Turn off the heat, transfer the Dutch oven to the bottom rack of your oven, and slide the sheet pan of butternut squash onto the top rack.
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That fat little butternut squash at Trader Joe's winked at me.
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First Known Use of butternut squash
1942
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