I love butternut squash but I bake it with butter and brown sugar. We grow Seminole squash and cook them with apples, they are like small pumpkins.
I can not use my right hand to cut the pumpkin and like you said, I got creative.
My Mom is where I got most of my tea cups. When I am with my sister at a yard sale and I see a cup and saucer, I buy it and she always gives me grief about buying it, she says "what are you going to do with it" I say "I am going to put it in the box with the rest of them. Maybe one day someone in the family will want them.