August 2014 -Growing Little Green Thumbs, Article 29
Written by Ruby Haydock-DeLoach
Fresh, Fancy & Fun
Congratulations! You have grown all those vegetables and want new twists. Explore Fancy Cuts and Canning to make fun dishes. Get a GEFU Spiral Vegetable Cutter. The spirals of carrots and cucumbers are good in salads; however, cut a variety of vegetable spirals and use them to replace spaghetti noodles. This is a healthy alternative to replace the high carbohydrate noodles and is a delicious choice. I really enjoy meatballs and sauce on zucchini noodles. What kid doesn’t love curly fries? And now for dessert…
Cooking with children is the best way for them to learn measurements used in the kitchen and helps to develop the life skill of making good food.
Vegetarian Coconut Pie
1 cup grated young yellow squash
1 1/3 cup sugar
2 Tablespoons flour
3 eggs
½ stick melted butter
2 teaspoons lemon flavoring
2 teaspoons coconut flavoring
Mix sugar and flour. Add grated squash, eggs, melted butter, and flavorings. Mix thoroughly. Pour mixture into an unbaked pie shell. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes. If you want to experiment, use a zucchini squash and flavor with key lime zest and juice and bake a green pie in a chocolate graham cracker pie shell.
Can Them
When you grow a home garden the harvest is smaller. Often you harvest a variety basket of vegetables; on their own there is not enough to be served as a side dish to the family meal. Chop and can them into a delightful pickled mix that is delicious on salads and greens.
EZ 3 x 30 Pickles
- Gather the 3 cucumbers, 2 peppers, onions, yellow and zucchini squash, a few green beans, green tomato, etc.
- Chop all the vegetables salad size and fill quart jars. Empty glass mayonnaise jars can be used and the Ball canning lids with fit.
- For each quart jar measure out ¼ cup light brown sugar, 2 teaspoons salt, ¼ cup vinegar1/2 teaspoon pickling spice or dill weed. Heat this mixture and pour over the chopped vegetables. I often use the pickle juice left from a jar of my favorite pickles.
- Put clean lids on jars, cool and refrigerate.
- Eat in 3 days or 3 months.
