Boy, was I surprised

[oldandslow]

Our son put in a garden this year. Due to some mechanical problems it was pretty late but the yellow squash and zucchinni are making to beat the band. I like zucchinni bread and the wife has made a large supply of that. I really don't care for yellow squash at all in any form of that I have ever sampled but yesterday was different. At lunch my wife asked if I wanted to sample some fried squash and I mosied off to the kitchen to take a bite and say I really didn't care for it. That's when I got the surprise. She had chopped it into bite sized pieces, rolled it in corn meal, and fried it. I love fresh okra fixed like this and the squash is just about as good as the okra. I ate a pretty good sized bowl of the stuff and am eagerly waiting on the next fixin'.

[Bob Riebe]

This is an exceptional year for squash or any vine veggie.
My vines are huge to the poiint now I have to go out and cut them down or they will cover the entire garden eventually.

I have a very fond feeling for baked winter squash; bake it with a lot of butter and brown sugar or Maple syrup and it is a treat.
I used to also really like baked squash with just salt, pepper and a lot of butter but I rarely eat it that way now.
It has been a while since I made a home made pumpkin/squash pie but I think this fall I will make a few again.

A lot of people now cut the squash into small pieces and then cut meat off of the rind and cook it that way but I still like to just cut it in half, scoop out the seed and fill the cavity with butter and sugar then bake it.
Used to eat a LOT of zucchini bread as my sig. other is beautician and her old lady customers used to give it to her often but now it is a rarity, as they are dying off.