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Goodness peter, that,s a great crop! You'll be able to keep the whole street supplied if there,s another lockdown.

On a practical front what are your favourite ways of using them up?
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Do you eat all of that lot Peter? Or do you have cunning floral displays featuring squash too? :lol:
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Oops ...reply disappeared so reposting. That,s a terrific crop Peter. You'll be able to keep the whole street supplied if there,s another lockdown but i bet half of them have probably never tried eating wiNter squashes.

Do you have some favourite recipes for using them up? My main dilemma with the bigger varieties like Crown Prince, which i love, is being able to use it up quickly enough without the quality deteriorating, when there are only two of us.
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What a wonderful selection, Peter....
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Primrose wrote:Goodness peter, that,s a great crop! You'll be able to keep the whole street supplied if there,s another lockdown.

On a practical front what are your favourite ways of using them up?


I do gift some :)

Soup!
One big squash.
A couple of pounds of: onions, potatoes, carrots.
Packet of "cooking" bacon, aka slicer remnants.
Chicken breasts diced, optional.
Spices, garlic, herbs to choice.
Slice & fry onions and bacon.
Peel, dice or chop veg and add to pan.
Add enough stock to give everything and simmer till cooked.
Wife and I prefer it as is, daughter uses stick blender.
Peeling the squash is the dangerous bit as some are very woody when raw.

Smaller ones halve, deseed and bake as;
    "gravy boats" with roast dinner
    Bowls to bake off with a filling/stuffing plus cheese as a final topping for others - I loathe cooked cheese.
    scrape out for a mashed squash.
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The butternut I chose for today's soup worked out just shy of 4 &1/2lb of chunks, cooked with 3lb of onions, 3 chicken breasts and pack of cooking bacon(3 X 1/2 inch chops!), plus spuds, spring onions, an uncloved (like a leek) elephant garlic, carrots, stock and 1&1/2 kettles of boiling water.
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That looks like a pretty healthy and filling meal, ideally suitable for the time of year.
I imagine that big soup pan gets plenty of use this time of year!
Every vegetable plot owner needs one !
No point in making enough for just one day but I find after two days I,ve had enough of any kind of reheatable meal and need a change. Does any body else feel the same or can some of you keep going with the same bowl of soup for several days?.

I know in my grandmother,s time the same soup pot was kept on the go for days with new ingredients being added every day to top up the contents up.
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.give me a pan of pea whack that’s pea and ham for those that don’t know ,every time you warm it up it thickens I love it on cold days with a couple of rounds of toast ,but it’s advisable to stand up wind of some one who had a bowl full the day before
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[url=sane.org.uk/]Certainly[/url], it's not something I'd currently attempt with no stove (the company from which I bought the cooker refused to install it as the switch was right over the space for the cooker, so they said it wasn't safe).
Certainly it's not something I'd currently attempt with no stove (the company from which I bought the cooker refused to install it as the switch was right over the space for the cooker, so they said it wasn't safe).
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