{"id":5859,"date":"2013-09-24T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5859"},"modified":"2016-09-26T18:45:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T23:45:11","slug":"yummy-stuff-roasted-butternut-squash-with-thyme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5859","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Stuff: Roasted Butternut Squash with Thyme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"DSC_0035\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7313\/9838572854_455a074b8c.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7313\/9838572854_455a074b8c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0035\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our early fall garden is doing remarkably well after I went through and pulled up all of our demolished cruciferous plants- the kale, cabbage, broccoli and rapini- all of it sad and eaten by cabbage butterflies and their caterpillars. More kale went in quickly to get the most of our growing season, and this time I have been spraying it with an organic pesticide once a week. Even with that, the little buggers are trying to get in there again, but I am plucking their eggs and tiny caterpillars off the undersides of the leaves with determination.<\/p>\n<p>Easier to grow this year was butternut squash. One plant has yielded four nice-sized squash, about two at a time, without any maintenance. This past weekend I finally picked the last two and roasted them. It was a nice savory dish that I thought I would share.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roasted Butternut Squash with Thyme<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 15px;\">two medium, or one large butternut squash<\/span><\/li>\n<li>2 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbsp butter, cut into small pieces<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp dried thyme<\/li>\n<li>salt, to taste (I probably used 1 1\/2 tsp)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0090\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7426\/9880290996_9121d8d226.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7426\/9880290996_9121d8d226_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0090\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cut the skin off the squash with a sharp knife, deseed, then slice the flesh into matchstick-sized pieces. Toss in a baking pan with olive oil, spread out evenly, then sprinkle with thyme and salt. Place small pats of butter on top.<a title=\"DSC_0092\" href=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2857\/9880293286_90d43e2a4c.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2857\/9880293286_90d43e2a4c_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0092\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0096\" href=\"http:\/\/farm8.static.flickr.com\/7394\/9880399883_a9bf40e6f9.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7394\/9880399883_a9bf40e6f9_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0096\" \/><\/a>Bake at 400 for 25 &#8211; 30 minutes, until squash is tender. If you are looking for a little more sweetness, this squash dish is also tasty with a bit of maple syrup drizzled on top&#8230; but of course, what isn&#8217;t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our early fall garden is doing remarkably well after I went through and pulled up all of our demolished cruciferous plants- the kale, cabbage, broccoli and rapini- all of it sad and eaten by cabbage butterflies and their caterpillars. More kale went in quickly to get the most of our growing season, and this time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=5859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yummy Stuff: Roasted Butternut Squash with Thyme&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,189],"tags":[115,173,103,171],"class_list":["post-5859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-garden","tag-garden","tag-green-living","tag-recipes","tag-yummy-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5859"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12056,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5859\/revisions\/12056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}