{"id":3567,"date":"2013-10-04T13:31:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2013-10-04T13:31:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:31:58","slug":"q-and-a-corn-for-polenta-and-canning-spaghetti-squash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/10\/04\/q-and-a-corn-for-polenta-and-canning-spaghetti-squash\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: corn for polenta and canning spaghetti squash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Corn for polenta<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What kind of corn can I plant to dry and make the best polenta? Is it sweet corn or field corn or something else? Do you grind your corn coarsely or finely for polenta?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Barbara Froehlich<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Bakersfield, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Any dry corn will make polenta, but we&#8217;ve found that our mature, dry sweet corn is excellent. Otherwise, any flint corn which dries with rounded kernels, as opposed to dented kernels, makes great polenta. We grind our corn with a medium grind, neither flour-fine nor coarse and gritty. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canning spaghetti squash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Spaghetti squash, can it be canned and how would I do it? My husband does not like pasta so spaghetti squash would be good. I have used it but just fresh. I would like to put some up if possible.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Nancy Foster<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Dallas City, Illinois<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sorry, but spaghetti squash doesn&#8217;t can well; it tends to get too soft. However, it sometimes does store pretty well, so you might keep several squash in a warm location to use during the winter. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corn for polenta What kind of corn can I plant to dry and make the best polenta? Is it sweet corn or field corn or something else? Do you grind your corn coarsely or finely for polenta? Barbara Froehlich Bakersfield, California Any dry corn will make polenta, but we&#8217;ve found that our mature, dry sweet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}