What are You Eating from the Garden?

[Branching Out]

I had Winter Squash for lunch.

There are several more on basement shelves, and ..

. frozen pumpkin pie.

So how do you prepare your winter squash? I have a small Sunshine squash in the pantry that will need to be eaten soon, and I could use some inspiration.

Today we had carnitas with fragrant homegrown cilantro. I just love fresh herbs.

 

[digitS']

@Branching Out , so often the squash is used for pumpkin bread or pumpkin pie, substituted cup for cup in a recipe for the canned pumpkin.

Cooking before adding to the other ingredients may take any form from oven baking, microwave nuking, steaming, or boiling. Served just by the piece is by baking along with a roast something or, simply in the microwave, either with butter and brown sugar.

Soup is an important part of our diet. Sometimes, it's a pumpkin bisque. All choices are very simple .

Steve
and yes, he is thinking of pumpkin pancakes for breakfast

 

[flowerbug]

cooking up two pots of beans (10 lbs of dry beans). they smell good already.

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

I am using up some frozen cherry tomatoes for this amazing feta pasta. It also has homegrown garlic, basil and parsley.
Here is the recipe. I always double it and make it in a 13×9 pan and it lasts few days.

Baked Feta Pasta - Tik Tok Pasta - Cooking Classy

The ever so popular TikTok Baked Feta Pasta! It's a hearty dish made with roasted tomatoes, creamy and lightly tangy baked feta, al dente pasta, and fresh

www.cookingclassy.com

 

[Branching Out]

I am using up some frozen cherry tomatoes for this amazing feta pasta.

I have read about this dish. When the recipe first came out everyone in Finland was making it, resulting in a nation-wide shortage of feta. Must be good!

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

I have read about this dish. When the recipe first came out everyone in Finland was making it, resulting in a nation-wide shortage of feta. Must be good!

Oh my! It's really good! I like to sprinkle a bit of hot pepper flakes on my own plate.

 

[Branching Out]

Oh my! It's really good! I like to sprinkle a bit of hot pepper flakes on my own plate.

A question for you please: do you freeze your cherry tomatoes whole?

 

[Cosmo spring garden]

A question for you please: do you freeze your cherry tomatoes whole?

I did and they worked great in this recipe.

 

[Phaedra]

Finally, I cut last year's biggest pumpkin, which should have become part of the Christmas treat but stayed until now.

Those went to the freezer, too many.

Then I made the pumpkin and purple rice, coleslaw with microgreen, and pork chops.

 

[digitS']

@Phaedra , we still have Winter Squash in the basement. "Curing" them when they first come off the vines have made an important difference in their holding quality and has added weeks if not months.

I'm having my second breakfast early because I've been busy with household chores and the first breakfast didn't have that holding quality to carry me through the hoped-for, 4 hours .

Pumpkin bread! Using a squash and made 4 loaves. One is already gone. No, this isn't a sugar rush, these are loaves of yeast bread not the sweet dessert bread that I sometimes bake.

Lots of people are familiar with potato bread. I find that combination okay but nothing special. Substitute squash, call it pumpkin bread so no one thinks it's a flat bread, it puffs up just fine - enjoy!

Steve