butternut squash
noun
: a smooth somewhat bottle-shaped buff-colored winter squash (Cucurbita moschata) with usually orange flesh
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A regular lasagna might feel lackluster for a Valentine's Day dinner, but this butternut squash version takes the baked pasta to new heights.
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2025
Food options include oysters with baked rajas and a cornbread crostini, butternut squash soup, lobster torreja (Mexican French toast) with asparagus and cauliflower, duck breast, red velvet cake and chocolate raspberry mousse.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
At Four Twenty Five, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s midtown palace of fine dining, dig into a lunch of butternut squash soup with kohlrabi sauerkraut and pumpkin seed tapenade and pan-roasted hake served with a hakurei turnip–jalapeno emulsion.
—Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 24 Jan. 2025
With rotisserie chicken, butternut squash, chickpeas and white beans (duh!), walnuts and more toppings, this DBS is meant for any time of the day.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 3 Feb. 2025
Food options include oysters with baked rajas and a cornbread crostini, butternut squash soup, lobster torreja (Mexican French toast) with asparagus and cauliflower, duck breast, red velvet cake and chocolate raspberry mousse.
—Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Jan. 2025
At Four Twenty Five, chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s midtown palace of fine dining, dig into a lunch of butternut squash soup with kohlrabi sauerkraut and pumpkin seed tapenade and pan-roasted hake served with a hakurei turnip–jalapeno emulsion.
—Ellen Carpenter, AFAR Media, 24 Jan. 2025
With rotisserie chicken, butternut squash, chickpeas and white beans (duh!), walnuts and more toppings, this DBS is meant for any time of the day.
—Sabrina Weiss, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
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