Re: What are you eating from your garden today?

plantoid 11/21/2015, 4:30 pm

Today we had whole chicken legs ( Knee joint to the whole hip joint ) from the time when I cut up 5 chickens and made loads of chicken stock from the remaining frames . Along with a spoon or two of some tomato mush that I pressure canned earlier this year ,& some home grown parsnip , carrots, onion & garlic as a home made Chinese style stir fry .

Sadly it also included a bit of shop brought broccoli and cauliflower as the cabbage white caterpillars devoured all ours in the beds before us this year .

**sanderson** 11/22/2015, 4:37 am

Sounds delicious. Darn those white butterflies and green caterpillars.

**AtlantaMarie** 11/22/2015, 8:05 am

+1! On both sounding delicious and those dratted cabbage bugs...

CapeCoddess 11/22/2015, 10:30 am

Ditto on the parsnips, carrots, leeks & garlic. Mine are going into the pot roast. What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Img_2023

CC

**Scorpio Rising** 11/22/2015, 5:34 pm

I really enjoyed the carrots I grew, I need to devote more SF for them! And I would like to try parsnips, too. Do they taste a bit like turnips? I like turnips. Are they hard to grow?

**trolleydriver** 11/23/2015, 9:05 am

Yesterday I opened up a jar of the green tomato salsa that I had canned a few weeks ago. Quite yummy!

NAR56 11/23/2015, 1:42 pm

I harvested and pickled the last of my Banana Peppers this weekend for some friends. I started eating from the jar I made a few weeks ago and then are delicious. Just the right amount of heat and pickle taste, a great complement to any sandwich or burger.

Harvest, Ringed, and Jarred.
What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Ppeppe10

What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Ppeppe10

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody !

Ryan

**Scorpio Rising** 11/23/2015, 6:20 pm

trolleydriver wrote:Yesterday I opened up a jar of the green tomato salsa that I had canned a few weeks ago. Quite yummy!

TD, did you post the recipe for your green tomato salsa?

**trolleydriver** 11/23/2015, 8:30 pm

SR ... I got the recipe from the "USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning. Guide 3, Selecting, Preparing and Canning Tomatoes and Tomato Products". The recipe is found on page 3-22 and has the title "Tomatillo Green Salsa" but it allows green tomatoes to be substituted for the tomatillos. The guide is available for download at the following link:

http://nchfp.uga.edu/publications/usda/GUIDE%203%20Home%20Can.pdf

Mikesgardn 11/23/2015, 8:38 pm

Picked the last collard greens yesterday. Garden is done for the year (except for some herbs like parsley, rosemary). Pretty good year. I harvested about 90 pounds from about 100 square feet this year.

**Scorpio Rising** 11/24/2015, 7:58 am

That's right, thanks, TD!

**AtlantaMarie** 11/24/2015, 8:34 am

Those USDA guides & the info from NCHFP is wonderful!!! I use them all the time in my canning classes!

**Scorpio Rising** 11/24/2015, 5:17 pm

AtlantaMarie wrote:Those USDA guides & the info from NCHFP is wonderful!!! I use them all the time in my canning classes!

I would take a canning class. Where should I inquire?

yolos 11/25/2015, 10:37 pm

Another scrumptious salad. About 9 varieties of lettuce, 7 varieties of spinach, Daikon Radish microgreens, Buckwheat micorgreens, Pea microgreens all from the garden (microgreens from under lights) with tomato and cucumbers from store. Served 12 adults. Everybody loved it.
What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Salad_10

What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Salad_10

**sanderson** 11/26/2015, 2:24 am

Beautiful salad!

**trolleydriver** 11/26/2015, 8:25 am

yolos ... I'm happy to see you are making good use of your microgreens!!! I put a whole batch of my alfalfa microgreens in a green smoothie a couple of days ago. I need to start some more microgreens.

yolos 11/27/2015, 3:04 pm

My contribution to Thanksgiving dinner was a salad, Pinkeye Purple Hull peas cooked with ham hocks, and Broccoli.

NAR56 12/1/2015, 1:01 pm

I picked some Bell Peppers last night for our Stuffed Bell Pepper dinner tonight. I had a mix of red and green peppers which is perfect for the Christmas season. Best part is that the peppers cook in the crock pot all day while we are at work.

Bell Peppers washed and ready.
What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Ppeppe11

What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Ppeppe11

Bell Peppers stuff and in the crock pot.
What are you eating from your garden today? - Page 19 Ppeppe12

Ryan

CapeCoddess 12/1/2015, 3:40 pm

Ooohhhh...pretty. They look like Christmas. What are they stuffed with?

CC

NAR56 12/1/2015, 4:34 pm

CapeCoddess wrote:Ooohhhh...pretty. They look like Christmas. What are they stuffed with?

CC

CC, We do a ground beef and rice mix, with onions, garlic and other seasonings. Wife also uses a can of Tomato soup, 1/2 in the stuffing mix and the other 1/2 goes on top of the peppers themselves.

Being late in the year, the peppers were smaller than normal. So instead of stuffing a few big peppers, we stuffed many smaller ones.

Ryan

**sanderson** 12/2/2015, 2:51 am

Another stuffed pepper winner!

**Scorpio Rising** 12/2/2015, 9:09 am

Beautiful! And yummy, I am sure! Ryan, how many pepper plants did you have?

NAR56 12/2/2015, 9:27 am

SR, I planted 4 Bell pepper plants (2 red and 2 green) and 2 Banana pepper plants this spring. We love to cook with them and they grow well here in LA. Usually, we should get our first freeze around the end of December and that will be the end of the peppers until next Spring.

CotheK 12/2/2015, 4:10 pm

Wow! Nar56 those peppers look marvelous - even for 'smaller!'

The recipe sounds delicious! Is the rice precooked? How long in the slow cooker?

**AtlantaMarie** 12/2/2015, 4:48 pm

Sounds great, Ryan!

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