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 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. 

This might be the year when you try fried squash blossoms.

Squash bread freezes well. 

Recipe also makes great tasting muffins. 


Bake something and have fun.

Gina

It is Rolly Polly Time

Or if you are more sophisticated you might call them 

Ronde de Nice. 

The perfect Summer squash.

They are good when golf ball size or even a little larger.  

  You can almost watch them grow. 

 But first I will collect a few blossoms and fry them covered in beer batter. 

What makes Ronde de Nice so perfect is that the entire vegetable can be used.  The skin is soft and when young, seeds are not developed. 

The yellow squash in the back is also a Rolly Polly, only this one is now too old to eat but is perfect for saving seeds.

Squash bread is delicious and 

so is squash soup.

Ronde de Nice are prolific growers. Soon I will be putting them up on Main Street.

If you're lucky there may be a few waiting for you. 

Have a wonderful week and be safe,

Gina