By Jeanie Rose | Winter Squash
It is so easy to over plant winter squash, especially a variety like butternut. Those butternut squash vines produce like crazy. You can easily end up with 30 mature squash and still have some little green ones coming on. I share some of my favorite ideas in the video above. If you have an abundance […]
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By Amanda Rose | Winter Squash
Gourmet coffee houses separate many of us from quite a few dollars around the holidays on drinks like this pumpkin spice latte. Save a few bucks and use quality ingredients at the same time to splurge at home. This recipe requires actual pumpkin puree, though you will get a richer flavor out of butternut squash […]
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By Amanda Rose | Winter Squash
The best pumpkin pies have no pumpkin whatsoever. Butternut squash has a flavor that is more dense, it is sweeter, easier to peel and cut, and is widely available in the marketplace. You will improve your pumpkin pie considerably by not choosing pumpkin at all. In fact, canned pumpkin is usually butternut squash. 🙂 If […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Winter Squash
In 1997, Sunset Magazine ran an article on winter squash complete with a few recipes. I followed the recipe to the letter because of its unusual process. It was wonderfully easy and fun! The onion and garlic gets roasted in their skins, then peeled. No tears. The Sunset article makes the point of the probable […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Winter Squash
Curried dishes run the gamut from sweet to hot with sweet-hot somewhere on the continuum. Curry powders vary greatly as well. Find one you like and stick with it. Nothing is more disappointing than picking up a container from the grocery store shelf only to find it greatly lacking in flavor when you apply it […]
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By Jeanie Rose | Winter Squash
“How to cook pumpkin?” you ask. If you have ever tried to make pumpkin pie out of last week’s jack-o-lantern, then you have already discovered that roasted and pureed pumpkin is not the same as the canned pumpkin you grab at the market. Here’s the deal. Those large, showing pumpkins are full of water. Yes, […]
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