{"id":45,"date":"2007-11-15T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=45"},"modified":"2007-11-15T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T19:10:00","slug":"squash-wrangling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlynz.com\/?p=45","title":{"rendered":"Squash Wrangling"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since sometime in August, my kitchen has been inhabited by an ever changing group of pails. Larry brings the pails in,filled with various offerings from the garden which I am supposed to turn into preserved foods for our winter sustenance<\/span>. We aren’t out on the prairie<\/span> and will certainly survive on the offerings found at Price Chopper and Super Wal<\/span>*Mart, but food we grow and put up ourselves is always more satisfying<\/span> than the stuff we bought at the store.<\/p>\n

I have already run through beans, beets, summer squash, sweet and hot peppers and enough tomatoes to entirely fill a 1967 VW<\/span> Beetle. Now we are down to winter squash. We’ve been eating them right along and the discovery of a recipe for pumpkin sausage soup, which I modified to use squash, depleted them somewhat more. Anyone who parked their vehicle in our driveway for more that few minutes went away with some squash in there and I have plans to take some to my sister’s next week.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> Still, I had a an awful lot of them sitting there, so I decided today that I had to deal with them. Here they are in the sink, waiting their fate. I washed and and peeled [just the Sunshine squash gets peeled – the skin is too thin after it is baked and it all crumbles into the flesh, so I just peel it beforehand] \"\"<\/a>and split and seeded and roasted and cooled and scraped and packaged and froze 4 different kinds of winter squash [squashes?] I ended up with 8 quart bags for the freezer and another quart plus that I am going to use tomorrow for squash bread. I was pretty proud of all my efforts. I had saved some fresh ones to take to my sisters and didn’t quite get all the spaghetti squash done, so I was down to 1 5 gallon bucket in the kitchen, a season low. \"\"<\/a>Larry came home from work tonight and saw the packages on the counter, having their final cooling before being put in the freezer. He said “Oh great – can I bring in the rest of them?”
REST OF THEM??????
“Yep – I have 3 more pails of them down in the garage.”
*cue sound of me jumping out of high building*
“AAAA<\/span><\/span>AAAAAA<\/span><\/span>AAAAAAAAAAA<\/span>aaaaaa<\/span><\/span>aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa<\/span><\/span>” <\/span>
Oh never mind – we live in a one story house! <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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