{"id":4263,"date":"2012-06-25T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T01:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2012-06-25T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T01:33:50","slug":"fried-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4263","title":{"rendered":"Fried squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fried-squash.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/fried-squash.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"fried-squash\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4264\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last summer, I somehow resisted the temptation to make fried squash, partly because it makes a mess in the kitchen. But tonight, after coming home peckish from a county commissioners&#8217; meeting and needing a snack, I opened the refrigerator, saw one of those beautiful yellow squash, and decided to fry it.<\/p>\n<p>Fried squash is a Southern classic. Some people fry it in batter; some people roll it in a beaten egg and then in seasoned flour. Some people add their secret mix of spices; some people use just salt and pepper.<\/p>\n<p>The mess in the kitchen wasn&#8217;t as bad as I thought it would be. Yes, I fried it. And I&#8217;ll probably do it again.<\/p>\n<p>As for the county commissioners&#8217; meeting, there&#8217;s a whole nother issue we&#8217;re now fighting here in Stokes. Someone in the western end of the county wants a permit to start a &#8220;bioremediation&#8221; facility for toxic waste. Why would we allow that, in a beautiful county like Stokes in which tourism is an important part of the economy? People are drawn to the county&#8217;s mountains, state park, and rural beauty. Toxic waste doesn&#8217;t fit in with that plan.<\/p>\n<p>If you set out to fight evil in this world, there&#8217;s plenty to keep you busy. Fried squash is as good a compensation as any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, I somehow resisted the temptation to make fried squash, partly because it makes a mess in the kitchen. But tonight, after coming home peckish from a county commissioners&#8217; meeting and needing a snack, I opened the refrigerator, saw one of those beautiful yellow squash, and decided to fry it. Fried squash is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4263\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fried squash&#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":[2,4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","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=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}