Anyone want to bet that I forget to do the On the Needles post tomorrow because today seems like Saturday so tomorrow will seem like Sunday! Maybe I’ll remember tonight and do the On the Needles post early.
It’s a lazy day around here. Vince has been working in the shop a bit. I was in the garden early, came in and fixed breakfast, then went out and picked a 5 gallon bucket of squash and a few tomatoes. I still don’t have a cucumber in sight! That’s one thing I’ve never had much luck growing.
There’s patty pan squash coming out my ears! Last night I fried some and Vince loved it. I think I’ll do that again tonight. I’m going to make a patty pan squash pie but was hoping to wait til closer to time for Chad to get here so I don’t have to eat so much of it myself.
This morning I looked at the pile of patty pan squash and said . . hash browns! It’s young and tender so I didn’t peel it but I did scoop out the seed part, grated it, fried it just like hash browns.
Patty Pan Hash Browns
A little salt and pepper was added and that’s it.
Patty Pan Hash Browns
They didn’t get as crispy as my hash browns usually are but they were as crispy as hash browns served in most restaurants. They were a bit on the sweet side . . not overly sweet but much more so than potatoes. I think it would be an excellent way to get kids to eat squash . . so long as you don’t tell them it’s squash.
After breakfast, I blanched and froze the squash – seven stuffed full quart bags. There were tomatoes sitting around getting overly ripe but not enough to start canning so I peeled all those and started a pot of spaghetti sauce. I had planned to smoke a pork butt today but Vince wasn’t really in the mood for that so I didn’t but hadn’t thought much about what I was going to fix for dinner. He’s always in the mood for spaghetti so he’ll be real happy with that for dinner.
The rest of my afternoon will be spent knitting and sewing . . I hope!
marcille irwin says
my husband is cooking a pork butt for us today; we are cooking it per your instructions from the April blog. We did this once before based on your blog and it was the easiest to pull pork that we have ever done. Your instructions are a real keeper!
Thank you and have a wonderful 4th!
AngieG9 says
The patty pan squash hash browns look soooo good. Now I want some, maybe with onions in them. Every time I read about your garden I get hungry. Hope you had a peaceful Fourth. The fireworks are going off all over the place here, and have been doing so since the middle of May.
Mel Meister says
We had Crash Potatoes with our smoked ribs, smoked turkey breast and garlic coleslaw today. My husband had done bacon in the oven and we had a baking pan with some bacon fat left on it. I mashed the potatoes into a bit of the bacon fat and then added the olive oil, salt and fresh rosemary (from my plant). I can’t begin to tell you how awesome those potatoes were! I left them in the oven for 40 minutes to get the taters nice and crispy.