This sharing of summer produce is another favorite summer tradition that makes me glad we have a garden, even if it's a small one.īut even if you don't grow squash in your garden or have a neighbor to share with you, yellow squash is really inexpensive during the summer at farmer's markets and grocery stores.
YELLOW SQUASH CASSEROLE FULL
We share with our neighbors, who in turn give us bags full of plums from their plum trees. We have one crookneck squash plant and it just keeps giving and giving. The one thing that we do get a TON of each summer is yellow squash. Plus, our garden isn't nearly big enough to produce that kind of yield. I feel sad that my girls don't get that same experience, but we just don't do that much canning anymore since fresh produce is almost always available year round. That cold storage room was one of my favorites because it was dark and cool in their otherwise sweltering house and the shelves were lined with jewel-like jars of bottled food. My mom, grandma & grandpa, and her sisters (my three aunts who never married and who we always referred to collectively as "the girls") would spend days bottling peaches, applesauce, cherries, pears, apricots, or putting up green beans or other produce that would then go into the cold storage in my grandparents basement. I always loved exploring the rows of corn, climbing the apple trees, picking raspberries off their raspberry bushes, and shelling peas and snapping green beans or shucking corn with my grandpa and grandma on their back porch. We visited them every summer, making the long drive from Nebraska or Southern California all the way to Idaho where hey had a large piece of land with a HUGE garden. Paul did not grow up with this recipe, but is now the person who requests fried squash most often because it's one of his favorite things that I make. Eating fried yellow squash reminds me of my grandparents house in Pocatello, Idaho. I grew up on this fried squash, looking forward to it every summer of my childhood and carrying on the tradition of making it every summer when squash is plentiful. It's a delicious, easy side dish that is so satisfying that we have honestly had meals where we just eat fried squash for dinner. If you've got crookneck squash overrunning your garden this summer, use up some of that fresh produce by trying this Fried Yellow Squash recipe.
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