So delicious and so easy

My very special Squash Bread Recipe

This is a Lakota Squash, any winter squash will do. 

Squash Bread Recipe

2 cups of cooked squash

3 eggs beaten

2 cups sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

3 tsp vanilla

1/2 cup light olive oil 

3/4 cup chopped nuts
1 cup of almond meal (optional)

1/2 cup golden raisins

Mix all ingredients

juice and grated zest from one lemon and one orange

Mix together

Add 3 cups of flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda. 

Mix by hand with wooden spoon until all ingredients are 

well incorporated. 

Grease 2 loaf pans 

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes and reduce heat to 300 and bake another 15 to 20 minutes. Test with toothpick.  

This is the bread to bake.  It is foolproof. 

Squash bread freezes well. 

Recipe also makes great tasting muffins. 


Bake something and have fun.

Gina

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Polishing copper pots

Not difficult at all.

When you know of this secret.

I keep mine handy because I use them everyday but I don't polish them every day.  

They are hanging from bicycle hooks. 

All you need is CLR (available in every hardware store) Sea Salt, a sponge and gloves. 

No need to scrub,
just glide a corner of your CLR soaked sponge over pot, rub on a little salt and let stand for a few minutes. 

Wash with soap and water.  Dry immediately. 

One more pot to go. 

Caution: do not let CLR stand on natural stone surfaces.

I use my copper pots every day.  Only two days after scrubbing they show scorch marks on the bottom.  That is to be expected, especially since I don't have a designated pot scrubber as you might find in a fancy French restaurant kitchen.  

Just out of the oven, four loaves of Squash bread. 

Have a great remainder of the week dear friends, 

Gina  

There is more than one way

to tackle the largest Lakota squash we grew this past Summer!

We need to cut this squash into pieces so it will fit into our oven.

 Winter squash needs to age for about 3 months.  A cool place in the cellar is a good spot. 

Instead of using a large kitchen knife it occurred to Mr G that 

his hand saw would do a much better and a much safer job.  

The seeds will be scooped out and saved for next year. 
(Or you can roast them, they are delicious). 

The above Lakota is a 10th generation squash from our field. 

Large pieces will be baked at 350 degrees for one hour and a half.  

The meat will be soft and creamy, like mashed potatoes. 

Individual packages of baked squash are frozen to use in breads, soups and as vegetable side dishes. 

They will provide many meals. 

 You can't just grow a few squash.  Our ducks, geese and ground critters all like the little seedlings in the Spring.  So we grow many plants hoping for only a few survivors but often end up with too many. 

Next year come by and when you see boxes of squash at the top of our lane, please help yourself. 

Gina

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The perfect squash for cooking and baking

There is nothing better than a bowl of hot squash soup on a cold and wintry day. 

  We save our squash seeds from year to year. Lakota Squash is an American Squash cultivated by Native American Tribes as early as the 16th Century. 

Most of our Hubbard (green) Squash are taken on more and more of the Lakota characteristics.  The bees are to blame. 

 Cut up squash into large chunks. Remove seeds and bake at 350 for an hour or until soft.  After baking, mash the pulp and use in recipes for soups, breads, cookies, muffins,vegetable side dishes and more. 

Squash bread fresh out of the oven.  

  

Everyone likes (loves) my squash bread.

Squash pulp freezes well and is ready to use throughout the winter.

And for Desert the perfect Pear Pie.

All winter squash are loaded with vitamins.  They keep well and are fun to grow.  They never disappoint. 

Until you grow your own, pick up a squash from your local grower and find out for yourself how versatile they are.

Have a wonderful week my dear Friends, 

Gina



The beginning - Innocent enough

You have saved a few seeds 

from the very best of the year before.

They begin to grow

The vines start climbing the fence and sunflower stalks.

And when October comes around you wonder what you're going to do with all of them.  

You put up a stand on Main Street and give them away.

You deliver a few to the local cafe and then  drop off a few at the Pig farmer. 

OR

you can ask Mr G to bake a whole bunch of them, seal them in food saver bags and freeze them 

for a delicious and very nutritious winter vegetable. 

And

then you can bake many, many loaves of  Lakota Squash Bread all winter long.  

The most delicious bread you have ever tasted. 

Recipe follows.

Squash Bread

2 cups of cooked squash

3 eggs beaten

2 cups sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

3 tsp vanilla

3/4 cup light olive oil 

3/4 cup chopped nuts

1/2 cup golden raisins

Mix all ingredients

juice and grated zest from one lemon and one orange

Mix together

Add 3 cups of flour

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp baking soda. 

Mix by hand with wooden spoon until all ingredients are 

well incorporated. 

Grease 2 loaf pans 

Bake at 350 for 45 minutes and reduce heat to 300 and bake another 15 to 20 minutes. Test with toothpick.  

Note
You can substitute zucchini for squash.

Happy baking my dear 

Blogging Friends. 

Gina