Butternut squash nutritional information
Butternut squash have only
about two-thirds the calories, pound per pound, as potatoes, but
otherwise they're relatively similar in the macronutrient
category. Protein makes up 9 to 10% of the calories, and the rest
of the calories come primarily from sugars and starches. Despite
what I read in Gardening
for Maximum Nutrition,
though, the USDA
Nutrient Database
shows butternuts trumping white potatoes in three-quarters of the
vitamins and minerals measured. If you're going to eat a
vegetable that's primarily starch, butternut isn't a bad choice.
Plus, we just plain love them.
So
when Mark came home with 97 butternuts, I was thrilled. The same
friend who sold him
35 butternuts for 20 bucks in the middle of August was now looking to unload
the rest of his harvest, this time with no money changing hands.
I guess that people at farmers markets in late fall feel about the same
way about butternuts as they do about zucchini in August (although I
can't imagine not wanting to eat all of those butternuts myself.)
Mark finally felt that we had enough butternuts on hand that I could
make a batch of butternut squash and
Egyptian onion soup
to go along with our butternut
squash pie ---
scrumptious! Thanks, Dennis!
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Jenny-fur --- Your dozen are just waiting for you to come pick them up.
Eliza --- We have terrible vine borer problems, so I think it's pure luck that the tastiest winter squash is also the most resistant one. They're also in a different species from nearly every other type of winter squash, so you can save the seeds without worrying.