I love yellow summer squash – in moderation. It seems however, that a squash plant is a plant that keeps on giving and giving and giving. Then you have to figure out what to do with all the excess squash. So far we’ve stewed it, fried it, grilled it, baked it with Italian seasoning (delicious), and given much of it away.
I’m not a great cook and I don’t pretend to be. I can hold my own and that’s about it. But there are times when you have to get creative and take drastic measures. In other words, I pulled out the cookbooks, something that intimidates me. To complicate matters even worse, I reached for a cookbook I like but rarely use – Italian Cooking: The Definitive Encyclopedia of Fabulous Italian Food by Capalbo, Whiteman, White, and Boggiano. I rarely use this cookbook because it describes things that I don’t have a clue about or have an idea how to find at my local grocer’s. Plus it uses the metric system first along with the standard U.S. measures, which means I sometimes have to do math (never a good thing) or I glance at the wrong number in the margin. However, I was bored and feeling adventurous.
What I found was a delightful recipe for summer minestrone. The recipe called for green and yellow courgettes, which I assumed were zucchini and squash. I was desperate to use the squash and didn’t bother to look it up – that and the fact that I didn’t want to look it up. Other ingredients included olive oil, onion, tomato paste, Italian plum tomatoes, new potatoes, garlic, chicken stock, basil, and Parmesan cheese. Thank goodness my willingness to be adventurous paid off and I have a new recipe to keep on hand. Now I have to find something to do with all those tomatoes.
What summer vegetables do you enjoy?
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i would love to munch so many italian foods, italian foods are the best in my opinion and they are very tasty “-~
i would love to munch so many italian foods, italian foods are the best in my opinion and they are very tasty .:`
what i like about italian food is the tomato sauce and pasta'”~
what i like about italian food is the pasta and spaghetti. they are so yummy.”‘
i always love italian food, they are really tasty like indian foods.;”,
try grilling your squash, split squash in half and hollow seeds out, rub with olive oil and fresh garlic, salt and pepper. Put on grill on lowest heat possible turn until center is soft and outer layer is still a little firm, add FRESH parmesan cheese load it down(where u have hollowed it out) and wait till cheese turns golden brown. This is great. Enjoy
i love Italian Food specially those juicy pastas. They are really delicious.-,~
Wow, thanks for all the great ideas for squash. I’m going to have to try the stuffed sqash as soon as possible (sounds delicious) as well as look up the Pueblo receipe.
@Donna Lea Simpson – What a wonderful idea. I know of two local churches that have food banks and also cook for the elderly – I’ll call them.
Ellie, those fritters sound great. I was just looking at the NYT online, and there’s a column, inviting comments, about how to use summer squash. Some of the suggestions sound really good. The link is:
http://bitten.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/the-squash-challenge/
My favorite is squash fritters. They look like small pancakes and have same ingredients as bisquick pancakes, plus the grated squash.
Allyson,