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What are you eating from your garden in 2016




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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Mon Jun 27, 2016 7:43 pm

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We had these for lunch yesterday. Looking at the picture, I'm thinking they don't look all that appetizing, but I didn't want to roast them until crispy with crust. In fact, I was half thinking of steaming them because I wanted to preserve the tender goodness of new potatoes. In the end, I coated them in EVOO, freshly clipped Rosemary, smashed outer clove of an elephant garlic, Pink Himalayan seasalt. And freshly ground black peppers, some butter cut into bits, and chopped oyster mushrooms. Put on a parchment lined sheet then folded excess parchment over the corners and all around, leaving open middle. So they semi-steamed. 425 for 30 minutes.

i tried to get family to tell me which one tasted the best so I can narrow down the varieties to grow, but they said they ALL tasted great. :lol:
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:00 pm

So far only peas and radishes and lettuce. Looking forward to cukes, tomatoes, beats, carrots, etc.
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Mon Jun 27, 2016 8:43 pm

El gusto es mio!

The pleasure is mine! Except you are sharing gusto* here. How could this not be the best thing about a vegetable garden forum? Just to have an idea of what others are enjoying from their gardens, adds pleasure to my gardening life.

Rainbow''s feast ... AppleStar's new potatoes, subtly and wonderfully different from the way they will be from storage and subtly seasoned by an accomplished cook -- no wonder "they ALL tasted great."

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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Tue Jun 28, 2016 6:35 pm

I ate my very first homegrown cucumber today :) I wish I'd taken a photo! It was delicious and the skin was nice and tender with seeds just the right size. I was worried it was picked too early but it seemed perfect!

Last year was my first try at growing them and I only had a single plant. The only cukes it produced were twisted and malformed so I just stopped watering it and gave upl. This year I have several plants and they are absolutely covered in babies that seem to be growing nicely with a beautiful shape.
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Tue Jun 28, 2016 9:09 pm

Gotta have cukes! Mine are starting to take off and some are starting to bloom 8)

My sunniest area elderberries are in full bloom -- some have already faded, but more to come and the shady area ones have only just started. :()

I was trying to decide if I want to harvest the flowers since I still have some of the bottled flower syrup from last year ... I made a lot and hot water bath canned them :D But today, I made a slushy with one. Oh wow it's very sweet ...as sweet as those artificially colored 7-11 ones, I would surmise, but mine is made with our frozen strawberries -- oh so YUM!

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I'm done gardening for today, but definitely going out and gathering some flowers tomorrow! :-()
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:34 am

had a stirfry of snow peas, broccoli, onions, carrots and tofu all from the garden. I grow the tofu on one of those little mini tofu trees. :() It was so good.

Today's lunch was a saute of onions, summer squash, red pepper (not from the garden but I DO have my first padrons :-() ), tomatoes and basil. I ate it all, just can't stop when its so good.

lettuce is just about gone, one more head to eat before the next batch grows up. Onions are bulking up and they along with the shallots have no plans to die any time soon. I learned my lesson by pulling some and realized their thick green stems are still very much producing and alive. That said, I have been pulling them, cutting them in half and grilling them and they are very, very good indeed. No one else can have any (okay, maybe just a little).
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Wed Jun 29, 2016 2:47 am

had a stirfry of snow peas, broccoli, onions, carrots and tofu all from the garden. I grow the tofu on one of those little mini tofu trees. :() It was so good.



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Tonight we had a lentil stew made with tomatoes and onions from the garden. We had sliced cucumbers and sliced Cherokee Purple, Valencia, and Eva Purple Ball tomatoes.
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Sat Jul 02, 2016 11:24 am

Had company over for dinner last night. Had green salad with garden cherry tomatoes and the first of my green beans, and fresh tomato pasta.

For the pasta: Sauteed onion and garlic (no garden garlic this year :( ), added mushrooms, salt and pepper and one of my little jalapenos, then a whole bunch of fresh basil, like more than a cup. Added in the chopped up stems of my rainbow chard. After all that was tender, put in six cups of fresh picked kale and chard (kale first because it takes more cooking), adding a cup or so of the water the pasta was cooking in. Once that was tender, I put in two pints of fresh picked chopped tomatoes and cooked just until the tomatoes started to soften.

Put the tomato and greens mixture on top of the drained-and-buttered-but-not-rinsed pasta, threw some sliced almonds and grated parmesan on top, and presto! quick, easy, nutritious, wonderful dinner! I should have gotten its picture, it was so pretty with the dark greens,red tomatoes, colorful chard stems ....

And all the onion peel, garlic skins, basil stems, mushroom stems, etc simmered up afterwards into the most wonderful smelling soup stock!
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Sun Jul 03, 2016 1:57 pm

This is actually from LAST season, and I have to finish them off soon! I just used a butternut squash (or rather, most of it) last night. I still have 12 in the basement, and the new ones are showing up on the vines. It will be a long time before those are ready, but I have to use these up! And they are the largest ones - the reason I've put off using some of them.
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Sun Jul 03, 2016 2:22 pm

DINNER Last night. Salad with tomatoes, lettuce, onion, parsley, oregano. Corn on the cob. BBQ pork chops on the grill.

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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Mon Jul 04, 2016 3:31 am

Made some vegetable soup from zucchini (yellow and green), white onions, yellow beans, and store bought carrots for lunch. Came out real good. Got to decide what to make with these tomatoes tomorrow.

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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Mon Jul 04, 2016 4:08 am

We always make vegetable soup with tomatoes. You just scald and skin them, and crush them in the pot with your hands. Then add fresh corn cut off the cob, and cut fresh okra, s&p. In a seperate pot, I boil potatoes and shredded cabbage. Then you just pour them together add s&p and serve with cornbread.

So easy, and it's so delicious!
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Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:17 pm

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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:24 pm

Jealous!
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Re: What are you eating from your garden in 2016

Tue Jul 05, 2016 3:24 am

Wow! Had friends over for Fourth of July cookout and had a garden feast, supplemented with Farmer's Market (FM) local produce.

Fruit salad, nothing from garden, but lots of fresh ripe Georgia peaches from FM

Tomato salad: From the garden -- Two pints of tomatoes, bell peppers, sweet corn (my stunted second planting, not worthy of being corn on the cob, but filled out the salad well), lots of basil and parsley, supplemented with FM yellow summer squash and marinated in Italian dressing.

Potatoes roasted on the grill -- Made a foil pouch with potatoes, bell and jalapeno peppers, green onions and lots of fresh herbs, all from the garden. Drizzled it with olive oil, salted and peppered, and put the whole pack on the grill.

FM corn on the cob grilled in the husks. (My third planting of corn is tasseling now, so there will be more garden corn, just not right now)

AND a pitcher of mojitos made with fresh picked mint!

OMG everything was so good!

I never understand why Thanksgiving is the end of November when there's nothing left in the garden. This is the real Thanksgiving, now in the season of abundance!
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