Fill me up, buttercup

I thought I had planted butternut squash in my Three Sisters Garden. I must have misread the seed pack or the packers put the wrong seed in the package. What I have is buttercup squash.

I don’t much like the taste of winter squash and I find the texture to be extraordinarily off-putting. But I do love pumpkin pie and cake and dessert. The only reason I planted the squash was as a substitute for pumpkin filling. We found that butternut squash tastes even better than pumpkin itself in pumpkin recipes.

When I saw roundish green squash in my garden instead of elongated yellowish squash, I knew I had a case of mistaken identity. At first we thought we had acorn squash, which I absolutely detest, but instead we have buttercup.

SeasonalChef.com says that buttercup squash is “one of the most pumpkin-like of winter squashes.” So maybe The Frugal Gardener is all right after all.

So “fill me up (fill me up) Buttercup, baby
Don’t you let me down (let me down) and mess me around …
So build me up, Buttercup; don’t break my heart.”