Same here when you use the bigger squash, they need to cook a while to soften them up. I’ll have to ask the wife, but she picked up some really good Zucchini and yellow squash recipes. The Zucchini pizzi is great. She also does a zucchini cobbler, Tastes just like apple cobbler.
If you get a bunch the best way we’ve found to freeze it is by making a vegetable stew. Squash, tomato, onion, okra and seasoned to your taste in a BIG pot and then putting in zip lock bags for later use over rice or how ever. Never found a way to freeze it by itself.
The pic of your kid holding the zucchini is priceless! And your chicken coop looks like a 5 star accommodation!
First round of squash almost done, cucumbers still going strong. 80 pounds every other day. Tomatoes just ripening. Sweet corn to be pulled this weekend or early next week.
Same here, cucumbers rolling steady, squash about done. About 1/2 my corn got laid over in the wind and rain last week but should be ready this weekend. Wife tried to stand some up but after loosing both flip flops and sinking past her ankles gave up. All my pumpkins drowned and deer ate the last of my beans and peas. This is the worst I’ve let it get with grass, but can’t get in it. Not complaining we needed the rain and I’d take more to keep the swamps up.
. High ground here so I was able to handle all of the rain. Pulled a couple of cobs this afternoon. Will start this weekend breaking and putting it up, as well as giving a lot away.somehow it did not blow over to badly.
I used the man-oven (aka my grill) this time. I cooked the squash for about 30 minutes at 275 over direct heat, then put it on tin foil to the side. I added the meat mixture and left it for another 30 minutes. Then I added the sauce and cheese and let it sit until the cheese browned up a little. It was perfect. I hate my oven and love my grill a little more now…
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That looks like you perfected it! Squash probably has a lot more grill flavor than in the oven!
Here’s one to try, Dad brought over corn last night, I like to carefully shuck it back and drizzle some butter on it and Crazy Janes seasoning then pull the shuck back over it and cook on the grill. Something about cooking corn in the shuck just gives it a better flavor.
That looks like you perfected it! Squash probably has a lot more grill flavor than in the oven!
Here’s one to try, Dad brought over corn last night, I like to carefully shuck it back and drizzle some butter on it and Crazy Janes seasoning then pull the shuck back over it and cook on the grill. Something about cooking corn in the shuck just gives it a better flavor.
I do the same thing except I soak it in salt water for a couple hours.
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Garden is about done, still plenty of peppers,tomatoes, and pink eyed peas. I bought an electric pea sheller this week,sure makes an easy job of shelling. I broke around 750 ears of sweet corn, and have picked and shelled 80 pounds of peas in the last two weeks. That is 80 shelled pounds. Watermelons are ready as well, delivered some to the sewee outpost this morning; and iced down a couple for later.
Garden is about done, still plenty of peppers,tomatoes, and pink eyed peas. I bought an electric pea sheller this week,sure makes an easy job of shelling. I broke around 750 ears of sweet corn, and have picked and shelled 80 pounds of peas in the last two weeks. That is 80 shelled pounds. Watermelons are ready as well, delivered some to the sewee outpost this morning; and iced down a couple for later.
Mine too, pumpkins drowned. If it drys up that’s probably the only thing I’ll replant so the wife can have some in the Fall. Still have peppers and tomatoes in pots on the porch.
That’s a lot of Peas! Some one had some sore fingers.
Does not do the very young peas well, just pick some handfuls and throw in another bucket for snaps.planting butter beans sometime in the next week. I have my doubts about it shelling them, but then again I do not find them as labor intensive to shell.
Figs came late this year, but the tree is loaded. Second pail, prepping for freezing. Never tried to freeze, but wife is under the weather and unable to make her preserves at this time. I read where they may get mushy, but so what, they get cooked anyway.
All I have left in the garden is green beans, banana peppers, eggplant, and two cucumber vines. Everything else either got too hot or too wet.
I’m going to clean it out at some point this weekend. I haven’t decided what else I’ll plant going into the fall.
The chickens are still putting out an egg each almost every day. One of them will take an occasional day off on a really hot day. I can’t say I blame her. I love those birds!
Edit: Almost forgot about the carrots! They’re doing great.
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