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It's  decorative gourd season ! "Buttercup squash?" you may be thinking..."you mean butternut squash? I mean what kind of food blogger are you??" No...butterCUP squash... Pretty much a green weird pumpkin Now I encountered buttercup squash on the blog of a college classmate,  Tales of the Basil Queen , which sadly doesn't update anymore (which is a damn shame the recipes are GREAT).   I love winter squash in general. Acorn squash, butternut squash, spaghetti squash: all awesome.  But this one seems a bit more obscure.  I found one at the North Union Farmer's Market on Shaker Square a few weeks ago and couldn't NOT buy it.  So I decided to roast it up and I'd figure out what to do with it later.   So I figured I'd halve it, scoop it out, then throw it on a roasting pan.   Now...what I learned pretty quick is don't use this knife.  You know why? It gets stuck. Whomp whomp.  But this one....

A friend had given me a container of cake flour when he moved away from Cleveland, which I have been staring at  for months. But cakes from scratch are for fancy people. Plus I can't have that much cake in my house by myself. My friend from high school was up visiting this weekend, and since my birthday was last week I figured, why not? So I consulted my trusty Joy of Cooking.  They had a Buttermilk Layer Cake recipe that sounded interesting.  I'd just gotten a powdered buttermilk mix (yeah yeah, not the same but whatever), so it sounded perfect! So we got started.... I have never oiled and floured a baking pan.  It's so damn finicky.  But if I'm doing fancy baking, gotta do it the whole way. Next we measured out the butter and sugar, and gradually combine until fluffy.... The butter was kind of tough to work with... Just butter . Butter and sugar.                    ...