{"id":1470,"date":"2011-10-25T00:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T07:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2011-10-25T00:23:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T07:23:20","slug":"cuppynut-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/?p=1470","title":{"rendered":"Cuppynut Squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1471\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a title=\"Mashed Butternut Squash\" href=\"http:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/butternut_squash02.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1471\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1471 \" title=\"Mashed Butternut Squash\" src=\"http:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/butternut_squash02.jpg\" alt=\"Mashed Butternut Squash\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1471\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mashed Butternut Squash<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Total time: 1 hour.<\/p>\n<p>1 butternut squash<br \/>\n1\/4 cup to 1\/2 cup butter, softened<br \/>\n1\/4 cup brown sugar (or to taste)<br \/>\n1 tsp salt (or to taste)<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 375F.<\/p>\n<p>Wash your squash well. Cut in half lengthwise (from stem to stern). Scoop out the seeds and the darkest orange stringy bits, discard or save for toasting.<\/p>\n<p>Lay squash halves face down on a lightly greased baking sheet.<\/p>\n<p>Bake stems pointed to the back of the oven for 45-60 minutes or until a fork pressed into the flesh near the stem slides in easily.<\/p>\n<p>Let cool 15 minutes on baking sheet before attempting to scoop flesh. Place 1\/4 cup butter and brown sugar in a large mixing bowl. CAUTION! HOT!! : Scoop the flesh from the squash onto the butter (to melt it). If you can help it, try not to touch the squash with your hands (ouch).<\/p>\n<p>Sprinkle salt on top and beat entire mix with a potato smasher or fork until smooth.  This is where I might add more butter, if it&#8217;s not smoothing out like mashed potatoes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where everyone else is eating leftover turkey and pie, I&#8217;m eating the squash.  I like to sprinkle mine with black pepper and call it dessert.. or breakfast, or snack.. or&#8230; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sweet and buttery mashed butternut squash. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,66],"tags":[25,28,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1474,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes.cuppylicious.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}