We drew names for Christmas this year (big family blow out – my out of state siblings and families are coming in, as well as my aunt and cousin from New Mexico). I did still want to make something for everyone, so I settled on jam. And since the Heavenly Fig Jam I made earlier […]
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Yeah, I’m a little behind on the blogging, what with the combination of my mother’s breast cancer surgery (she’s fine, thank God) last week, and an unexpected funeral, and the associated, er, festivities over last weekend. On Surgery Day (10/15), after I got my mother home and on the couch with tea, I came home
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So what do you do when the CSA gives you a pound of green tomatoes? Pickle them! You’ll notice a bit of orange – a couple had started to turn a bit toward ripeness by the time I got to them, but were definitely still of green tomato consistency, so I just cut them up
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This week’s haul was: salad turnips (and greens!), eggplant, broccoli, cherry tomatoes, garlic, and bell peppers. The broccoli was gone that night.
This is approximately twenty pounds of tomatoes (one from the CSA, one from the Farmer’s Market): The following survived the initial wash and cutting off of bad spots: The following did not: After much mashing and boiling: I managed to cover my counter with enough bowls and other equipment to run the results through a
This week’s haul was: fingerling potatoes, cherry tomatoes, red peppers, beets, eggplant, garlic, green beans, arugula, and ten pounds of tomatoes seconds. Yep, there are grand plans for tomatoes in this house this weekend…
This week’s haul was: arugula, fennel, kohlrabi, a bell pepper, cherry tomatoes, baby pattypan squash, garlic, and potatoes. You may notice that week 11 is missing – that went to my mother, because we were gone for a good chunk of last week, and I didn’t want anything going to waste in our fridge while
So, what’s a girl to do with about four pound of tomatoes when her salad needs are being fulfilled by the cherry tomato plant in the garden? Salsa! This is the Fresh Vegetable Salsa from the Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. It was meant to make five pints, but I got the above four,
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This week’s haul was: garlic, pattypan squash, a pepper, tomatoes, eggplant, and potatoes. I also was able to buy some wild blueberries (I am a blueberry snob, it’s the low-bush, or nothing else).
Man, I don’t know what it is about this summer, but I have sucked about getting pictures out for anything. It’s not like I’m not doing anything, but it’s just not the kind of stuff that really lends itself to picture taking, and if I’m not downloading anything, I tend to forget my CSA pictures,
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