Jackson Jambalaya

Am I allowed to substitute green zucchini for yellow squash in your recipes? asking for an old "Real A Tor" ...

Thanks, Chef Bear. I grew up the same way with a large family vegetable garden and neighbors sharing excess produce with each other. We also had chickens for eggs, a milk cow, fish from our lake and my brother hunted deer and dove.

Now that husband and I are retired, we garden year-round. In the past month, I have blanched and frozen 8 quarts of squash, 6 quarts of rattlesnake green beans, washed and froze about 2 gallons of blueberries and canned 8 pints of pickled hot peppers we grew. And we're just getting started on the summer harvest and food preservation process. We can afford to buy whatever food we want, but we choose to do this.

Many people are either too lazy or too ignorant to grow healthy food in a relatively small space and preserve it for later consumption.

I want to live next to 9 am! That is wonderful!

Love yellow squash. never had it fried when I was young because my mom always cooked it like the picture, with onions. It was always great. Then I tried fried, ok, another way to love squash. haha Chef Bear, thanks so much. And your pictures always make my eyes get big and my stomach growl.

I am so tired of hearing about the food desert--especially in the Delta where some of the richest soil in the world is there. And in Jackson where there are hundreds of vacant lots where many of the previous generations had home gardens. The county supervisors and councilmen and the MSU extension service should be providing community gardens for those willing to work.