Local Farmers

We usually have a huge garden however this year we had mishaps happen in our family and we were unable to.  This being the case we rely on local gardeners or farmers to get our veggies!!

Yesterday we went to our local farmer, Joyce Sanders, and spent $25 and received the following:
Squash
Patty pan Squash
Zucchini
Cherry tomatoes
sugar sweet Melon
dill
watermelon
cucumbers
homemade jam
Acorn squash

I think our girls looked a little funny when we came home with all of it.

We cut the squash and zucchini and froze it; however we took the patty pan squash and scooped out the inside.

Here is the recipe we used and everyone loved it:
2 cups cherry tomatoes
1 cup onions
2 cups rice
2 cups shredded zucchini
approx 2 cups patty pan squash
2 cups vegetable or beef broth.
1 1/2 cups of cheese
2 TBS of olive oil
3 bay leaves
2 garlic cloves
pinch of salt
1tsp pepper


Wash and cut the tops off and hollow out the squash.
Putting the inside part of the squash in a bowl for later.
We took cherry tomatoes and onions and cut the tomatoes in 1/4 and the we diced the onions and put them in a pan with 1 TBS of olive oil. Add chopped up Bay leaves and diced garlic cloves

Pre-heat oven 350

In the bowl of leftover patty pan squash that you set aside, add 2 cups rice add 2 cups shredded zucchini add 2 cups broth add 1 cup of cheese.  Mix well.
Once your tomatoes and onions mixture is done, add those to your bowl of rice, squash etc.
Mix this all together.
Get your pan and take your olive oil and grease the pan as well as the outside of the squash cups.
When you are done greasing then take a spoon and fill the squash cups up and place them in the baking pan.  I fill the whole thing so it is on the outside of the squash cups and fill the pan with the mixture.  Take your remaining cheese and sprinkle on top along with salt and pepper for seasoning to your taste.

Cover the pan with foil and cook in oven for 40 minutes covered and then after the 40 minutes take the foil off and brown for an additional 10 minutes or until brown on top.

Even our picker eater loved this and it had no meat in it.  So would be very good for vegetarians out there.  Our family did not miss the meat at all.  So I was very impressed.

Hugs to everyone and I will keep sharing!!!







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