Posted on 04/09/2015 4:04:37 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
This is also a nice summer recipe;
http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/grilled-summer-squash-with-bagna-cauda-and-fried-capers
Lots of great summer squash and zucchini recipes here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/24/yellow-squash-recipes_n_3640665.html
/johnny
Someone needs to figure out more to do with Zucchini; the damn thing just won’t quit growing!
(Would be a lot cheaper and easier to grow than Corn ;-)
-JT
Well, keep watching this space!
-JT
I like zucchini better than summer squash. My favorite way to have them is the easiest - grill them. Slice young ones lengthwise in half. Spray or rub down with olive oil, salt & pepper or use whatever spice you like. I just grill them a bit, I like them to have some crunch inside.
If you have any that get past you (too big) give them to someone who raises chickens. they can just halve them and the chickens will love it. When our daughter was little we did meat birds twice. I’d take the bigger zucchini and actually put them through the cuisinart shredder. Filled paper plates ad took them out to the chickens. Yes it was a little work but worth it to hear our daughter giggle watching the frantic chickens inhale it like they were eating spaghetti.
There are actually some good zucchini relish recipes out there. I can it in half pints and use it in place of pickle relish on hot dogs, in potato or egg salad.
“Someone needs to figure out more to do with Zucchini; the damn thing just won’t quit growing!”
I finally get to do some real gardening this year-and would appreciate any plant that keeps producing!
I have 3 spots I’ve been getting ready to plant in, but have to go ask the locals when and what to plant since I just moved to this area.
Which one did you get? I do so want to try that form of cooking. Looks like it would be really hard to screw things up and overcook them :-)
Oh my, I’m drooling just thinking about that. Hope I can actually get some squash this year. Mine always fall victim to powdery mildew
[THE BEST] Sweet Potato Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
2 cups flour
2 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
2 tsp baking soda
2 cups sugar
1 ½ cups vegetable oil
4 eggs
3 15-oz cans of yams/sweet potatoes, drained
1 tsp vanilla
Preheat Oven to 325 degrees.
Combine dry ingredients, minus sugar, and set aside. Combine moist ingredients, plus sugar, and mix well with electric mixer. Add flour mixture and mix well.
Pour into three greased and floured cake pans and bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely before icing. Then, ice cake, sprinkling chopped pecans on each layer after icing.
Cream Cheese Icing
¾ box powdered sugar (sifted) 1 cup pecans, chopped
16 oz. cream cheese 1 tsp vanilla
1 stick butter
Cream butter, cream cheese and vanilla with electric mixer. Add sugar a little at a time and mix well. The more you whip it with the mixer, the fluffier it becomes.
Turns out that local doesn't even like broccoli. So I ignore their 'Conventional thinking'. LOL!
/johnny
“I do have to grow it in a cold frame with a closable lid, starting in fall, but it does grow here.”
Uh, ok, I see their point - it doesn’t grow without taking extra measures. But you seem like me - if someone says it can’t be done, it becomes a mission to prove them wrong ;)
That is about the favorite group size I like to feed.
Field feeding 1500 of my closest military friends was a little much, even for 4 cooks and 2 KP folks in skullery .
Feeding 25-30 is a number that I can feed 3 meals a day for and never break a sweat. And do that with just me, even handling dishes. Just perfect, that size and it lets me tailor the menu for those that have special needs,or special needs on specific days.
/johnny
I’m strangely responding to last week’s discussion on sardines, etc.
I was jazzed to find herring at a dollar store, both in oil and mustard. I got 10 cans. They either be prepped storage or eaten next week on crackers.
“Feeding 25-30 is a number that I can feed 3 meals a day for and never break a sweat. “
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If I had to do that I’d shoot myself.
(But cleanup wouldn’t bother me at all.)
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Moi? how could that possibly be? Bet your bippy I will. ;)
/johnny
/johnny
“Daddy was right... cooking is a young mans game,”
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Daddys are usually right.:-)
Take care of yourself—you are in my prayers.
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