August 17, 2004
squashing hopes
8/17/04
Okay, I take it back: apparently I CAN enjoy something I've grown this year. Whilst dorking around the Union Square Farmers Market this spring, I saw a tiny seedling that said "butternut waltham." I stuck it in the ground, and two months later the bastard took over my garden.
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The fruits (I guess it's a fruit) grew to the size of bowling pins and I started hauling them into the kitchen, not knowing what the hell to do with them. Then Tessa sliced one in half, baked it with a little butter for 20 minutes, told me to put brown sugar on it, and JESUS CHRIST that shit is good!
I now have enough Waltham Butternut Squash to power the town of Marion, Iowa. And I was thinking, if you can make banana bread and zucchini bread, can't you make squash bread? I mean, assuming you stuff it full of rendered hogfat and high fructose corn syrup? If any of you have recipe ideas (something you like), please let me know, and I'll post the results.
Posted by irw at August 17, 2004 11:38 PMInteresting shape. If you run out of other uses perhaps you'd like to contribute to the science of squash ballistics.
I meant to include this URL
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_692855.html?menu=news.quirkies
www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_692855.html?menu=news.quirkies
Boy, are you so far removed from your time in Chapel Hill & the south, home of Mama Dips & Time Out? Slice, bread it, and fry it up. Yum. We fry sweet potatoes, zucchini, et al. Its really good for you. well...sort of.
Ian Darling,
I'm with Scruggs. You've been in Yankee-land too long. Squash bread. yikes. The only appropriate thing to do with squash is, indeed, to fry it.bless your heart.
Don't let these crackers fool you.
On the opening page, search for bread AND squash. I think you will find two pages of recipes. If you're willing to take the time, you can also make gnocci out of squash the same way you would potatoes.
I also have a killer recipe for sweet potato WAFFLES.
Man, people in the south *DO NOT* know how to cook.
Check your seed catalog but I think this is a storer, too. You have to wash them with a very mild sterilizing agent like very very diluted bleach to kill off the surface stuff. If you do that you can fill your basement and eat them all winter. Warning: if you do it wrong - you'll have tons of rotten squash flesh to hoist out manually in the deep mid winter.
http://www.almanac.com/recipes/search/results.php?keyword=squash
Now Sean, that wasn't very nice. The south brought the world Krispy Kreme!
The South also brought us Texas Pete hot sauce, which should actually be called Winston-Salem Pete. Excellent on Brunswick Stew, which is IMPOSSIBLE to find north of Charlottesville.
I haven't been to Brother Jimmy's in the upper east side in a long while, but I think they have Brunswick Stew on the menu. Never actually eaten it there, and it may suck, but the option is there.
I had it at Brother Jimmy's and it was kinda watery and crappy.
Can I have a squash?