Squash and squash seeds

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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.
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I think you miscalculated the pile size. 14 cords of 100" (8+ ft.) logs piled 8' would be 28' long. Still a lot of woo. W3e buy our firewood the same way, 8-12' logs which I buck up and my wife splits. 14 cords would be a dour year supply for us. We try to stay ahead of winter by three to four years. I used to split it all by hand and would take on a hydraulic splitter any day but when my back gave out, I decided to use the machine. My wife tried it and now insists in doing all the splitting.as well as stacking, She says it's her exercise program.

Here is a photo of my Dad with one of his squashes.
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Well, RJ, after thinking about this, you are correct. My main heat source is wood so it's important to me
that I have enough for the season. Fourteen cords would last me through 2023 hopefully.
 
We really like a squash variety called sweetmeat. It's a Hubbard crossed with something else, has blue-green skin and bright orange flesh. It doesn't get as big as Hubbard. It also has large fat seeds we brine and toast. It keeps pretty good, but the best keeper (for us anyway) by far is butternut. We've had them last a year and still good quality.
 
Wow, never heard of that variety, but I love squash, in any form.
 
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