Aunt Patsy's Squash Casserole

Aunt Patsy’s Squash Casserole

4 slices of bacon cooked crisp

4 large yellow squash sliced round ¼ in. thick

4 green onions chopped

1 egg beaten

½ cup sour cream

½ cup shredded Swiss cheese

¾ cup shredded cheddar cheese

Grease 2 qt casserole and preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Cook bacon in large skillet until crisp. Remove to paper towels to drain. In bacon drippings sauté onion and squash until tender about 8 – 10 min. It is important to cook as much water out of squash as you can or the casserole will be soggy....not good.... Beat egg and combine with sour cream, and add to squash and onions, stir in half of the bacon. Pour ½ of mixture into casserole, and top with Swiss cheese. Pour remaining squash mix and top with cheddar and remaining bacon.

Bake 350 for 20- 25 min. Serve hot.

Lee Ann was asking for this recipe and I started thinking about it and had to go get some squash! Making it tonight.

Going to find some firewood right now. The wind is blowing really hard here...sun is still shining though. All the snowbirds are in town having a great time! I could hear them meeting friends and making plans in the grocery and post office! So cute. 

I have a cute story to tell you about Lee Ann. Winter of 94 was our first snowbird season here in Destin. Lee Ann was in the 3rd grade I think, we were out grocery shopping after gymnastics and we almost had 3 collisions with older couples in the parking lots of the shopping centers. I made the comment we need to go home before we get run over and Lee Ann said yea Mom there's more white hair than white sand here! It's dangerous! Wish she could have stayed that age forever.

Later.....:)

Love The Compleat Squash!

I love my new book! The Compleat Squash, by Amy Goldman. I don't know if I am as crazy about them as she is but I want to give growing them a try. I can't wait to get to work preparing a place for them.  Looks like a good time for it now.

I have to do some more sandspur control too. They hurt sooo bad. For those of you who don't know sand spurs are native to the coast. It's a grass that has these tiny little barbed spurs that are extremly painful when you come in contact with them. Our dogs have learned to avoid large patches of them. They must smell them. A few weeks ago I was in the Vet's office with the cat and a poor little Yorkey came in covered in them! The doctor was going to sedate him and shave him. Poor little guy, he had to stay there overnight.

Niki, you can call the Barnes and Noble in Dothan and ask them if they have a copy of Barbara Ritch Jackson's book, For I Heard Them Say. My copy was printed in 1998, in Birmingham, by Birmingham Printing and Publishing. When I was home Christmas I think I saw it at Barnes and Noble on 231 North. They also had several new books about Houston and Henry County. 

You also asked me how I liked Trisha Yearwood's new cookbook. I love it! The recipes are good. I have tried two of them so far, the chicken and spinach lasagna and the refrigerator rolls. Both were delicious. You will like it too.

Stay warm, happy and safe this weekend. I'm digging in the dirt. Chow for now!...:-)