With both a recession and the fall of the year here both have inspired me to do a series on gourds and tubers. If one is going to eat locally and eat what’s in season, you’d need to bone up on gourds and tuber like the many variety of squash, sweet potatoes, yams, and potatoes. Gourds and tubers are generally inexpensive and they can be prepared many different ways. During the Great Depression of the 1930s and early 1940s, families adapted their cooking to both lean times and the short periods of feasting that followed the arrival of state aid, bartered items, and the harvest from a garden. African American singer, composer, and civil rights activist Nina Simone (1933-2003) was born and raised in Tyron, North Carolina. She recalled that as a child her family transformed a big garden into “a huge garden and finally a little farm. We had . . . Rows and rows of string beans, collard greens, tomatoes, corn and squash." Below I provide some great squash and zucchini recipes to go with this historical piece. The first one for zucchini muffins is one I really enjoy making and eating and my eight and six year old love them.
Squash and Zucchini recipes:
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