what are you eating from your garden today 2017

[applestar]

I cut open my Thai Kang Kob cross squash from November 12.



I put the piece I cut off in a stew with pork, daikon, Korean glutinous corn off the cob, immature Enterprise apples, and mushrooms, onions, elephant garlic, and aji pineapple peppers (Rosemary, bayleaf, sea salt) in home made chicken stock. I sautéed the meat in Sunflower oil first, then added the onions, apples, garlic and deseeded peppers, and the mushrooms -- medium-low heat until everything was caramelized while adding chunks of daikon and squash, then deglazed with brewed Japanese cooking wine (I think this is some kind of sake, but not the artificially flavored one). Added the chicken stock and ...oh! To get the gelatinous stock and fat out of the container, I needed hot water, so I ran a 6 oz Keurig cycle into it, but I forgot I had my used eco-brew coffee pod in there, so "weakly" coffee flavored water... Stew tastes wonderful -- so rich and full of flavor.

...I just had a second serving. I can still taste the squash in the tender chunks and a lingering mild spiciness that could be either from the peppers or from the squash.

[xtron]

rib eye steak...from the store.... with fresh picked corn on the cob...both grilled on the bar-b-que, and cole slaw from the cabbage picked the other day. the rest of the cabbage were canned into 8 pints. and that was just the first of the cabbage.
more corn will b e picked tomorrow and frozen/canned/dehydrated.

[applestar]

I had several cocktail size tomatoes -- Maskotka -- split from last night's downpour, and I harvested some garlic chives, so I made a spicy garlic chives omelet with fried not- quite full-ripe tomatoes.

Heat a pat of butter and sunflower oil enough to coat the 6 in. personal sautéed pan. Start by covering the bottom with chopped garlic chives, add one minced Aji Pineapple pepper (no seeds/membrain), sea salt, 2 beaten eggs, 2 deli thin slices of provolone. Fold over and let runny eggs run out and puff in the oil. Remove omelet, arrange halved stem end trimmed tomatoes cut side down and let sizzle. Put omelet back on top and press down to crush the tomatoes into the hot pan. Remove as soon as tomatoes soften and liquid runs out. Yum!

[lakngulf]

Still enjoying lots of tomatoes....Cherokee Purple, Better Boy and Brandywine.....and okra loves this time of the year down south. Lots of okra.

[lakngulf]

My second crop of tomatoes had to deal with some tough, HOT july weather but are hanging in there!



Picked these this morning. Better Boy and Cherokee Purple. These flats make about 8 we have picked off about 20 plants. We consider that pretty good for this time of the year.

[Gary350]

Tomatoes, cantaloupe, corn, beans, squash, potatoes, onions, garlic. .

[rainbowgardener]

Made an "extra vegetable fried rice" recipe with brown rice, with cabbage, tomatoes, green beans, green peppers from my garden.

[benshawlerd]

Pulling out some lettuce today...woohoo!

Got my instructions and planting dates from www.growmigo.com, very accurate recommendations.

Waiting for tomatoes to ripen...

[digitS']

The cherry tomatoes are nice and becoming plentiful. The larger varieties have the "weird ones," down in the center of the plants. Only one or two good enough to slice and use the whole tomato.

The very first ears of corn ... and a little jumping the gun on those . Maybe, there will be some more mature, this morning.

Buckets of potatoes carried out and washed. Probably not a good idea to wash but they have to be carried across carpet and down to the basement ... where it isn't especially cool with near record heat!

The turnip greens are coming out of recovery from the spring flea beetle attacks. I hadn't really anticipated them as a summer green but haven't grown turnips since the seventies! They are good .

Green Beans, Snap Beans, String Beans, Haricot Beans, Phaseolus vulgaris ...!

Steve

[rainbowgardener]

Made an "extra vegetable fried rice" recipe with brown rice, with cabbage, tomatoes, green beans, green peppers from my garden.

Nothing new since then, but I am busy processing stuff. Canned salsa and tomato sauce. Dried a whole bunch of herbs (oregano, tarragon, spearmint, rosemary, lemon balm, sage, etc). Made purple basil pesto and purple basil simple syrup. Usually I make basil jelly (green and purple), but I got so carried away making jelly last year, that I still have plenty left, even after giving a bunch away.

[applestar]

-- Dwarf Blazing Beauty (orange), The Witz (yellow), Korean Cucumber, one of the red leaf lettuces, Polish bacon and rye bread. Safflower mayo.... yum.

[ElizabethB]

You all make me HUNGRY



Beautiful harvest one and all

[ElizabethB]

My favorite end of season feast was fried green tomatoes. I had not eaten good fried green tomatoes in years.

[Gary350]

I made a pot of garden chili yesterday evening for dinner. Garlic, onion, dices with the meat with herbs & spices. Enough tomatoes in the blender for 3 pints of liquid. Bring beans & tomatoes to a boil with meat and spices it is ready to eat. Everything is from the garden except for meat and green beans. Sometimes we put corn in chili but not this time. We usually use red beans but not this time. I think I got a little to much oregano in there fresh picked herbs have a lot more flavor than dried herbs.

I am getting ready to make dinner rolls for dinner.

[applestar]

I made pumpkin-coconut cream custard with some of that roasted TKK cross pumpkin. Sooo yummy!