WINTER SQUASH VARIETIES A Shoppers Guide

Acorn Squash Butternut Squash Buttercup Squash Delicata Squash

The slightly dry, orange colored The flesh of the butternut squash is a Although it looks quite different The delicata squash has a moist, flesh of the acorn squash have a deep orange color, with a distinctive from the butternut squash the creamy yellow flesh that tastes definite nut-like flavor. Their large butterscotch flavor that most people buttercup has a very creamy, and smells like a blend of corn, seed cavities find delicious. They are quite tasty orange colored flesh much like butternut squash and sweet are perfect either steamed or baked and that of the butternut. potato. It is often referred to as for stuffing, are excellent topped Its flavor is not the sweet potato and they with maple syrup! as rich as the squash. They are are best The smaller squash butternut, but best eaten when baked. tend to be the is still quite when steamed sweetest. sweet. or baked.

Golden Nugget Kabocha Squash Hubbard Squash Oranghetti Squash Squash The mustard color flesh of the The hubbard squash has a very The oranghetti squash is a hybrid The moist, smooth bright orange kabocha squash is very sweet and rich sweet, dry orange flesh. They are variety of the spaghetti squash flesh of the golden nugget squash tast-ing. Its texture is floury dry, like a excellent in pumpkin pies, and and can be used similarly to it. has a very mild squash flavor, which balance between a sweet potato and a actually have a thicker, firmer Once cooked, the strands of can range from very sweet to a pumpkin. It has the highest texture than fresh pumpkin, they squash in the center can be more bland flavor. sugar content of any "set up" easier and scooped out They can be squash, and is require less and scooped out and excellent baked as sweetener cooked baked whole like a side dish or than up much pumpkins or split stuffed. pumpkin. like pasta. and baked.

Turban Squash Spaghetti Squash Sweet Dumpling Red Kuri Squash

Although often used as a gourd for Once cooked, the creamy golden Squash The red kuri squash has a very decoration purposes, the turban flesh separates into miles of swirly, rich, sweet flavor that almost has The sweet dumpling squash, squash is very edible. Its crisp-tender, spaghetti-like strands. a spiciness to its taste. Although although small in stature, packs a orange-yellowish flesh is very The taste by itself is rather bland, but not as thick in texture as the wallop in the flavor department. The sweet with a used as a pasta substitute kabocha, it still holds sweet, tender flavor hazelnut-like with your favorite sauce together well of this squash flavor that and this squash comes and is coupled with its most people to life, with far fewer excellent moist texture find very calories than pasta either baked is a favorite of delicious. Its as well! either whole many. texture is dry. or split.

Pumpkins Marrows, squashes and gourds are all part of a large family of edible gourds that

Generally thought of only as a grow on vines. It is possible that squash was the very rst food to be cultivated by cooked vegetable, pumpkin can be Native American Indians; it seems at least to have been the rst within what has been eaten raw and is delicious when called the Indian triad - maize, beans and squash. Winter squash are slower growing very finely grated and served in than summer squash varieties, with months passing from the time they blossom combination until the time they are mature and ready to be harvested in the fall. Their dense with grated carrots and sweet esh reects a whole summer of accumulating energy from the sun and soil. beets as a base for salads.