{"id":21232,"date":"2021-06-21T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=21232"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:21:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T12:21:42","slug":"runaway-squash-and-cucumbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=21232","title":{"rendered":"Runaway squash and cucumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1026\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-0.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-0-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-0-768x657.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had the good sense this year to plant a sparse garden for easier maintenance. Even so, when the garden kicks in, you can&#8217;t turn your back on it even for a day. I had skipped a day of harvesting, and this morning I picked five pounds of squash and cucumbers from four squash plants and four cucumber plants. Some of the squash and cucumbers had already gotten a little too big.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike tomatoes, which love to sit and look out the kitchen window, squash and cucumbers start to lose their freshness the instant they&#8217;re picked. I pick them in the cool of the morning, wash them in cold water, dry them, and pop them in the fridge.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d have fried fresh squash every day in summer if it weren&#8217;t for the calories. Curried squash is probably the lowest-calorie way to fix them. When I fry squash, I like to not use egg. I slice the squash and let the slices sit for about 10 minutes. A sticky dew will form. That stickiness helps the flour stick. Roll the slices in seasoned flour. Then roll them in a mixture of flour, seasonings, and water, about the same thickness as you would with an egg mixture. Then roll them in semolina flour and pop them in the skillet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"971\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-1-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-1-768x621.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/squash-2-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the good sense this year to plant a sparse garden for easier maintenance. Even so, when the garden kicks in, you can&#8217;t turn your back on it even for a day. I had skipped a day of harvesting, and this morning I picked five pounds of squash and cucumbers from four squash plants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=21232\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Runaway squash and cucumbers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21232"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21241,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21232\/revisions\/21241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}