I love summer and good friends!

We were at my nephew's baseball game this morning and one of the boys' grandfather asked us if we would like some summer squash.  Oh yes!  He gave my sister and me a grocery bag of squash and cucumbers and another of radishes.  Knowing I can't eat much, i gave my sister most of the squash, cucumbers, and all fo the radishes, but I steamed two squash, peeled two very small cucumbers and put vinegar and salt and pepper on them, and cooked a stuffed chicken breast and at about 1/4 of it.  I have enough for a whole other meal and it was wonderful!   I also had a banana pepper that I grew myself. Woohoo, summer is good!  Not to mention good baseball too!

Marsha

I love squash. We have some planted and they are blooming. Can't wait to have some fried in some EVOO. Yummy!!
Emily

I tried to grow some last year in containers, but I seem to have killed them!  LOL  I just steamed these and added some whipped yogurt margarine and salt and pepper.  Very simple, but oh so delicious and it takes me right back to my childhood.  That was just comfort food for me!  LOL

marsha I was given 2 huge bags of squash and another 2 bags of bell peppers onions and potaotes plus fruit and alvoadas plus lettuce and cabbage today enough to feed an huge family one meal I have no idea what I am going to with it all...I gave some away and more to give..

Hi, Pattye.
Maybe you could take some to share at the next Weight Wise support group meeting. :) It all sounds yummy.
Blessings,
Mary

Pattie that is always a treat!  What a great friend....You can cut the squash and coat  it, put it on a cookie sheet and freeze it, then put it in bags and place back in the freezer ready to cook. I do okra like this every year. You can also cut up the peppers and onions and put in freezer bags to use in meals you cook. I love avocados in cottage cheese....I the best thing is their gift to you is still being given!!
I never have to worry about having to much....The two daughters that live around here think I am the Food Pantry.  They drop by ,off and on, and hit the food isle here. If I am gone, they leave a note and tell me what they "borrowed". For some reason I love it, that they do it....Mom is still getting to take care of them.....I always make meals and freeze for them too. Why cook for one when I can cook for two more families at the same time?? It makes their lives easier too....
I have everything in my garden...just waiting to be ripe....I can't wait!!!

Sherri I use to can and freeze stuff all the time...OMG back in NC I was the diva of gardens.If  someone had to much I went and got what they didnt want and canned it or froze it. So after I went and helped a friend who was real sick. I came home sliced and diced and now its all in the freezer. I even made cantalope pickles. Plus I took the alvacadoes and mashed them up added lime and froze them. Nothing went to waste. The ptaotes and radishes plus some garden salad mix I gave to a friend of mine who was happy to get it. I am making a polish cabbage dish tonight. Not real WLS friendly....but  I wont eat uch of it. Its made with I dice up turkey bacon sizzle it then add chopped up onions and garlic till tender and then add polish sausage sizzle for a few then add sliced up cabbage salt and pepper and steam it in chicken broth. Suppose to add cream afterwards but I  dont. I was doing an estate sale in Harrah when an older woman came up and started taking to me. I noticed her tatto that was a number and she told hse was a holocaust survivor. She left and came back with a quart jar of the cabbage it was awesome. One of my favs is Polish cooking..

What an amazing story and what a treasure that recipe is. I love recipes with a story behind them like that....those are far and few between. I have never done any polish cooking but sounds wonderful! I love polish sausage....
I have canned pickles, okra and beets and all that stuff for so long! I love it! This year, I am cutting way back....I hope I am! I just truely love working with food. My mom always told me that was why I was so fat...(great mom, huh) I still love creating and cooking.  It is a hobby and I am just thankful that the surgery didn't impact that,  like I was afraid it would.....I sure don't get to eat much of what I cook but I still can create recipes and not eat them..I am so ok with that. To win in the Made in Oklahoma recipe contest this year was so special because I thought after the surgery that It would change my ability to create...it hasn't! I didn't win in the top catagories, but I did win in the Best Of:....type. I wasn't really even trying to hard! lol


Patti, I do still wonder if we are sisters! We seem to have so mu*****ommon!  Who knows???

Sherry

Ahhhh Patti!  That's awesome!  I wish  I was close to you! Enjoy all those veggies!

I gave Mom my first squash and cucumbers-but I'm going to eat the next squash and I think I'll get a cuke tomorrow.  My garden is small, and this is the first year, so it's raw dirt and miracle grow.  Next year I'll have compost, etc. and I hope production is better.