Julie Bove wrote:
>
> "U.S. Janet B." > wrote in message
> ...
>> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:50:30 -0000 (UTC), Wayne Boatwright
>> > wrote:
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>>> On Tue 23 Oct 2018 08:34:38p, jmcquown told us...
>>>
>>>> On 10/23/2018 9:22 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>> On Tue 23 Oct 2018 02:39:45p, jmcquown told us...
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/23/2018 1:09 PM, Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue 23 Oct 2018 09:02:45a, U.S. Janet B. told us...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:04:25 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It's a bit chilly here. So I'll be making vegetable soup for
>>>>>>>>> dinner. That should pretty well empty out my veggie drawer.
>>>>>>>>> Am getting some fresh stuff tomorrow. Will probably put some
>>>>>>>>> beans in it. Maybe rice or barley. Will see what I have. Will
>>>>>>>>> also make some cheese biscuits.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I just started a beef vegetable soup. I'm making the broth
>>>>>>>> with a really nice, large beef shank, celery, carrots, onion,
>>>>>>>> garlic (all frozen from my stash for soup in the deep freeze)
>>>>>>>> in the pressure cooker along with water and some pepper corns.
>>>>>>>> I'll build my soup with the strained broth. Cabbage, green
>>>>>>>> beans, carrots, celery, onion, some potato, zucchini and
>>>>>>>> parsley and the meat pulled from the beef shank.
>>>>>>>> My daughter was here last week, we cooked together and we made
>>>>>>>> Posole Rojo for one meal and Spicy Pop Pulled Pork for
>>>>>>>> another. She took the recipes home to make for her family.
>>>>>>>> I'm ready for some lighter flavored fare right now so the beef
>>>>>>>> vegetable soup sounds about right. Janet US
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That sounds delicions, but I would substitute yellow summer
>>>>>>> squash for the zucchini. I've never been fond of zucchini
>>>>>>> except, perhaps, in qucchini bread. :-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't understand aversions to zucchini. To me, it tastes
>>>>>> practically the same as yellow summer squash.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> They don't taste the same to me, but you don't need to hnderstand
>>>>> it. I have never liked zucchini and never will.
>>>>>
>>>> True, and no skin off my nose. I like zucchini but then I like
>>>> most kinds of squash.
>>>>
>>>> Jill
>>>>
>>>
>>> And therein probably makes the difference. I do not like most kinds
>>> of squash, probably no more the 3-4 types, and most of those would be
>>> winter squash, not summer varieties. :-)
>>
>> I don't try to grow winter squash anymore. The squirrels like it too
>> much. They gnaw spots on a squash then move on to taste another
>> squash.
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> That happened to me one year with a possum and my bell peppers.

Yoose need to move yoose tits and bell peppers to higher ground!

Possums usually breed, forage, etc in low lying areas ... ditches,
swamps, riverbanks, etc.

On the other hand, possums can be delicious if properly prepared. In the
1930's, millions of possums was et.