primitive gets squashed

[franksolich]

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Oh my.

tigereye  (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-13-10 09:11 PM
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we have too many squashes! Help! 

Any cool recipes? I have some nice squash soup recipes... but would appreciate any other options/ideas?

I have 2 butternut and 1 acorn - usually I bake those. I also have 2 little patti pan squashes, 1 spaghetti squash and another one whose name I forget.

The empressof all   (1000+ posts)        Wed Oct-13-10 09:12 PM
THE IMPERIOUS PRIMITIVE, WHO DOESN'T LIKE US
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1. They'll keep for a while

I have kept Spaghetti Squash in a cool dark place for months....

TreasonousBastard  (1000+ posts)      Wed Oct-13-10 09:32 PM
THE PRIMITIVE FULL OF BEANS
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3. Make pies. Cut the acorn in half, clean the seeds out and...stuff it with sausage and rice. Bake until done.

Get another 30 pounds or so of various squashes and cook 'em up. Clean the cooked glop out of the skins and freeze what's left over after making pumpkin ginger pancakes, pumpkin cupcakes/muffins, pumpkin bread...

Then use the frozen stuff to make pumpkin pies, pumpkin pancakes... all year long.

(Note that the big orange Halloween pumpkins make lousy eating. Cheese pumpkins and other squashes are what is used in the best pumpkin pies, soups, muffins...)

Blues Heron  (258 posts)      Wed Oct-13-10 10:08 PM
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4. roast those seeds!!

a little butter, 325 ten or fifteen minutes - yum! It's amazing how many seeds you get out of even a small butternut squash!

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-14-10 12:24 AM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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7. Pattypan squashes are summer squashes and will need to be eaten within the next couple of days. It they're large, you can stuff them. If they're really small, you don't even have to peel them to eat them.

Winter squashes like butternut and acorn are keepers and will likely last in a cool, dry place for weeks. Spaghetti squash is kind of in the middle, although I've managed to store them for a month or more. Mold is your big enemy for all of them, so store accordingly.

My favorite way to eat winter squash is cubed, steamed until barely fork tender, then tossed with melted butter, snipped parsley, salt and pepper.

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Thu Oct-14-10 12:07 PM
THE DEFROCKED WARPED PRIMITIVE, #09 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009
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14. Well, there's always squash pasta, squash ravioli filling (just use winter squash in anything that calls for pumpkin), squash soup, squash tempura, and that horrible stuff mothers used to make on Thanksgiving with the mini marshmallows on top and that no self respecting kid would ever eat.

grasswire  (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-14-10 12:49 AM
THE FARMERETTE FROM UP OVER THERE IN WISCONSIN
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8. I would freeze some of it. If I had any freezer room.

My freezer (admittedly just the top-of-fridge size) is filled with many bags of frozen raspberries, halved red plums, blueberries, sliced apples for pies, greentomato enchilada sauce, green tomatoes halved, diced peppers of various kinds, eggplant cubes, and more.

I am now out of room. There are squashes in the garden and I wish I could freeze some.

Just get rid of the green tomato enchilada sauce, the green tomatoes halved, the diced peppers of various kinds, the eggplant cubes, and there'll be some room in that freezer.

One can toss these things out into the garden to rot; they make great fertilizer.  And natural, too.

TreasonousBastard  (1000+ posts)      Thu Oct-14-10 06:31 AM
THE PRIMITIVE FULL OF BEANS
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9. Last year I had so many squashes to freeze I bought another freezer...

a 5 cubic foot one for about 150 bucks at K-Mart. Worth every penny.

It's now full of frozen squash goop, along with gobs of frozen stuff I found on sale. And some meat.

(Comes in real handy when Blue Bunny ice cream is on sale)

[AllosaursRus]

We always end up with more squash than we can use.

"Toots" makes quite a few loaves of zucchini bread and freezes it, then I put the rest out at the end of the driveway in a bushel basket with a big "FREE" sign on it!

Disappears pretty fast, and my neighbors that don't have gardens, are very appreciative!

[longview]

Donate to a food pantry, pre-school, senior center, assisted living or nursing home, supervised housing for disabled adults, after school programs that'll teach kids how to cook it, too...  all those groups feed folks on a real tight budget and can take produce.

[Karin]

I laughed at your answer to Grasswire, Frank.  I was thinking, "who the hell asked you for an inventory list of your freezer contents?"   She was bragging about how healthful and wholesome her freezer items are.  Truth is, it contains ice cream, Tyson chicken wings, and a cheap vodka. 

That squash that Warpy says no self-respecting kid would eat, was one of the few vegetables I would tolerate (no marshmallows).  I was a self-respecting kid, Warpy. 

[Wineslob]

Uhhhh.................make Butternut Squash soup? The stuff is tha BOMB!
My wife replaces the sweet Italian sausage with the Maple.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/butternut-squash-and-italian-sausage-soup-recipe/index.html

[delilahmused]

Donate to a food pantry, pre-school, senior center, assisted living or nursing home, supervised housing for disabled adults, after school programs that'll teach kids how to cook it, too...  all those groups feed folks on a real tight budget and can take produce.

We have a program here called "Grow a row for the homeless" here. They're very appreciative. Salvation Army soup kitchens and women's shelters are a couple of my favorite places to donate extra produce. These organizations must have zucchini everything for a few months in the summer.

Cindie