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Having just butchered a big squash, I'm cooking up a big cauldron of squash and saving the seeds in salt water. In a few hours, I will dry the seeds
and put them in my toaster oven at medium heat until toasted. The squash will cook in a big pot until soft and I can easily carve the squash
from the rind and put it in a container. One thing I found was that squash makes excellent breakfast cakes using squash instead of potatoes for
potato(squash) pancakes. It's pretty simple really. Just substitute squash for potatoes in a standard recipe. It's just squash pureed, a bit of
flour, salt and lots of chopped onions. I cook the cakes on a medium heat until brown and top if off with cottage cheese and a bit of jalapeno
for pizzazz.
So in the meantime, I can vacuum up the shop and put away my tools and get ready for another machining session. Also, I will pitch in a few
chunks of firewood in the boiler on the way to the shop. It's sort of a ritual one gets used to in the wintertime in this country. My wood supply
is sort of scant this year as a lot of it is poplar which is on the lower end of the totem pole for BTU. Generally I just scavenge for firewood but
it looks like it might be smart to order a big load of 100 inch stuff to be cut up for firewood. I know of a fellow who will deliver a 14 cord load of
hardwood so need to make the call. A cord of wood is 4x4x8 so 14 cords would be an 8 foot high pile 56 feet wide. Well, time to check on the
my culinary stuff. Have a good day out there in machining land.
This is a Kubocha squash, one of my favorites. It's also called a Japanese pumpkin. I grow a lot of them. On the right is a mess of squash seeds
marinating in salt solution. These squash I grow are up to 15 pounds or so and another favorite is a Hubbard which get to be up to maybe 40 pounds.
I have maybe 30 of these huge squash in a cool but not freezing area to have all winter long.
![P1030733.JPG P1030733.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/386/386612-a93842e18e121d0dcdd9143011930edc.jpg?hash=qThC4Y4SHQ)
and put them in my toaster oven at medium heat until toasted. The squash will cook in a big pot until soft and I can easily carve the squash
from the rind and put it in a container. One thing I found was that squash makes excellent breakfast cakes using squash instead of potatoes for
potato(squash) pancakes. It's pretty simple really. Just substitute squash for potatoes in a standard recipe. It's just squash pureed, a bit of
flour, salt and lots of chopped onions. I cook the cakes on a medium heat until brown and top if off with cottage cheese and a bit of jalapeno
for pizzazz.
So in the meantime, I can vacuum up the shop and put away my tools and get ready for another machining session. Also, I will pitch in a few
chunks of firewood in the boiler on the way to the shop. It's sort of a ritual one gets used to in the wintertime in this country. My wood supply
is sort of scant this year as a lot of it is poplar which is on the lower end of the totem pole for BTU. Generally I just scavenge for firewood but
it looks like it might be smart to order a big load of 100 inch stuff to be cut up for firewood. I know of a fellow who will deliver a 14 cord load of
hardwood so need to make the call. A cord of wood is 4x4x8 so 14 cords would be an 8 foot high pile 56 feet wide. Well, time to check on the
my culinary stuff. Have a good day out there in machining land.
This is a Kubocha squash, one of my favorites. It's also called a Japanese pumpkin. I grow a lot of them. On the right is a mess of squash seeds
marinating in salt solution. These squash I grow are up to 15 pounds or so and another favorite is a Hubbard which get to be up to maybe 40 pounds.
I have maybe 30 of these huge squash in a cool but not freezing area to have all winter long.
![P1030733.JPG P1030733.JPG](https://www.hobby-machinist.com/data/attachments/386/386612-a93842e18e121d0dcdd9143011930edc.jpg?hash=qThC4Y4SHQ)