squash recipes

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Could have traded an excess of red peppers that I’ve since had to give away; maybe we’ll have to set up a vegetable exchange blog and plan better next year with other veggie-growing bloggers.

I ate chocolate covered grass hoppers once, but I was 8, and Kuzuo was a really convincing foreign exchange student …

we got him back though, took him frog gigging, that really fucked with his head

(wink)

I only change the names if I need to protect the guilty

almost made up for the interrupted sleep.

[I write that with some trepidation, given the chief assumption that it’s safe to discount restricted movement immature homo sapiens entirely as a commercially viable food source - most immediately due to the dearth of readily availlable data, but even accounting for the normally safe assumption that the US government has a secret program underway somewher that may fill most if not all that gap, I should think one would be safe in anticipating some serious level of resistance, such as from members of faith-based communities.]

whereas the ratio for food bugs ranges from 2:1 [the data on this extreme being limited by the fact it comes from SE Asia with a climate that does not require very much in the way of heating costs], to 8:1 [mostly caused by some variants in which additional inputs are thought to be necessitated by special risks, for example to crop handlers from tarantulas and venomous spiders, or from the crops high degree of mobility],

with the largest concentration being around 4:1.

i was thinkin two or three feet maybe

that’s as tall as the hollyhocks

(I got billions of types of flowers, growing wild, Mom planted anything an everything. One year, she planted some wildflowers that had fookin flax seed in it)