As I was gathering ingredients for today's lunch I realized that my pantry is starting to look a little empty. I still have a ton of Rhubarb and relish left though! I did pretty well last year, we got more of just about everything that I normally can - especially fruit. We actually still have another couple weeks worth of peaches and a few jars of applesauce so I can definitely say this has been the best year to date for saving our own food. I will be doing some construction in our pantry/root cellar room this year as I plan to have a LOT more root veggies and squash to store this year. Also plan to have more dried beans, fruit and grains this year. Ryan is really getting into making beer so I want to have lots of space for that as well as our wine. I am also going to try making cider this year if we get enough fruit.
The thing that prompted this post though was the fact that I used the last jar of Mayan squash that I canned 2 years ago. This squash was enormous! We ate a small amount of it fresh and it was ok but not the best I have had. Most of the rest I cut into 1 inch cubes and canned. I did dry some and grind it into flour to use in biscuits. The canned squash made the best puree for soup, muffins, pumpkin pie and even cheese sauce! It is so SMOOTH! What makes me sad is that I have been trying to find some seed of this squash variety but no luck so far.
I only got one squash from the one plant that I had but it lasted 2 YEARS!! This is a picture of it a few weeks before harvest - it got about twice that size.
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