Baymule's 2016 Garden

baymule said:

I spent the afternoon in the kitchen today. Friday we took our grand daughters to pick blueberries. The 9 year old doesn't like them, but was very proud of herself for picking 3 pounds to take home.

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The 16 month old loves blueberries and got busy picking. Green ones, red ones, purple ones---all went in her mouth. She ate out of my bucket and contributed red and green blueberries to the bucket. She had a large time. She finally got her fill and when I offered her more blueberries, she turned her head and said no. I'm pretty sure she ate some dirt with them.

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My husband picked 4 pounds and I would up with 2 pounds. I washed them and put on cookie sheets and put them in the freezer. Today I vacuum sealed them in bags. Need to go pick some more.

And I had all that squash to do something with! I sliced it, shredded it, and froze it. I made cream corn from 20 ears of corn and mixed with the shredded squash for fritters.

I used my Mom's 1950 Salad Master grater.

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Cream corn.

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I put a cup of squash and a cup of cream corn in Ziploc bags and froze it. I got 13 bags. I sliced the squash and bagged the big slices, the necks went to the grater. Each vacuum sealed bag had from 16-24 slices of squash, depending on the size of the slices. I got 16 bags.

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I fried fritters for supper. They didn't come apart this time.

1 cup shredded squash
1 cup cream corn
1 egg
1 cup flour
1/2 large onion, chopped
1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
salt, pepper

I made patties and also did spoon drop. The spoon drop belched forth big popping grease splatters. Won't be doing that again!

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And I made squash lasagna!

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ninnymary said:

Looks good Bay. A lot more harvest than last year huh?

Mary

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baymule said:

Tonight we had supper from the garden. We had roasted yellow squash coated with 2 spoons of olive oil and a packet of dry Ranch dressing. Yum! I fixed homestyle potatoes, yellow wax beans and sliced our first tomato!

I planted a whole packet of yellow wax beans with visions of beautiful glass jars packed with gleaming gold beans dancing in my head.......EEEERRKK!! back to reality. Very few came up and the few that did are small, struggling to survive the Great Seedling Graveyard that is my garden. The beans weren't yellow yet, but I picked them before a marauding rabbit did. I got 32 slightly yellowish beans. Victory!

It sure was nice to pick something other than yellow squash!

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