Re: What are you eating from your garden today?

yolos 12/4/2017, 9:16 pm

sanderson wrote:Yolos, I just keep on learning from you. I re-read the manual for Food Saver and sure enough I can reheat in hot water. "You can also reheat foods in FoodSaver (R) Bags by placing them in water at a low simmer (below 170*F (75*C)" Online instructions for Seal-a-Meal is the same - simmer.

Oops!! I did not know it should be a simmer. I put the bag in a pot, start the heat and let it come to a boil and then turn down to medium heat. Some day, I guess a bag will probably split on me. Oh well.

countrynaturals 12/5/2017, 3:27 pm

Got a delicious carrot and globe radish for Hubby and I to snack on -- small but awesome. I love you

Roseinarosecity 12/5/2017, 4:19 pm

The wind died down, so I got a chance to water, and this is what I am going to eat today:
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CapeCoddess 12/5/2017, 4:24 pm

Still pulling one mongo-sized carrot every week. Lasts me all week.
I was just wondering this morning how I should cover them for winter so I can continue pulling one a week. The greens are still tall and beautiful and the MM is still friable...but, it won't be long...

CC

Roseinarosecity 12/5/2017, 4:30 pm

CapeCoddess wrote:Still pulling one mongo-sized carrot every week. Lasts me all week.

What kind of carrot gets you a mongo-size?

CapeCoddess 12/5/2017, 4:51 pm

Rose, I planted all 4 packages of the different seeds that I had back in April. They've never grown this big before but I've never let them stay in this long. So I'd have to say it's time and not variety here.

But they were ....umm....
thinking

I'll have to go look in the Carrot Week 2017 thread...but one variety was Danvers 126. Oh, and I never planted them in full sun before either until this year.

Got it ...the remaining 3 varieties were A-#1 Hybrid, Chateney and Scarlet Nantes.

CC

BeetlesPerSqFt 12/5/2017, 7:47 pm

Lunch: my cabbage, onions, and garlic in a Thai curry.
Dinner: Tetsukabuto squash! mashed, as part of late replica-Thanksgiving leftovers. A very nice squash with a flavor that is a little different from butternut, more chestnut-y. My family grew these for a year or two when I was young, and then couldn't find seeds. It's a hybrid between Curcubita maxima (likely a kabocha in this case, rather than a hubburd) and Curcubita moschata (butternut and others). The con of this type is that it won't pollinate itself, and needs another C. moschata or C. maxima plant in the garden to pollinate it. The pros are its flavor and it actually produces in my short season - in part because it has squash vine borer resistance from it's C. moschata parent.

**trolleydriver** 12/6/2017, 6:36 pm

Today is the 60th anniversary of the day when I moved with my family from England to Canada. I was 10 years old at the time. My Dad and an Uncle had already come to Canada six months earlier. I traveled with my Mother, Grandmother, Aunt and three cousins. It was long journey on a prop powered plane. We arrived first in Montreal before flying to Toronto the next day. To celebrate this 60th anniversary, Mrs TD made a delicious meal for the two of us. All the this to finally say that she included one of the SFG grown Canada Crookneck Squash and it was excellent. Very Happy

**sanderson** 12/8/2017, 2:35 am

Happy Canadian anniversary :canada:

And, congrats on the crookneck harvest.

newbeone 12/9/2017, 1:20 pm

Happy Anniversary! Today I went out to survey the damage from our cold snap and the snow Happy to see there wasn't much the basil, Malabar spinach and there was a little damage to some of the tomato plants, the figs are doing OK I ate a couple before the birds got them. and I also sucked up a few squash bugs Thanks sanderson for the info on the Dust Buster it works great.

plantoid 12/9/2017, 4:36 pm

Tonight we were eating delicious straight out the garden summer cabbage that was first cut in June then had the stalk cut in a cross to give four small cabbages .
They have been lightly frosted and as a result they were fantastic .. slightly sweeter than normal & as soft as a wet NICE biscuit dipped in your coffee.

LizDTM 12/10/2017, 10:55 am

I have a lot of lettuce and mustard spinach ready to harvest, so I'm going to have a nice salad along with some roasted beets and a steak for lunch today.

**Scorpio Rising** 12/10/2017, 1:37 pm

Yum, and yum! Sounds wonderful!

**sanderson** 12/11/2017, 2:40 pm

newbeone wrote: I also sucked up a few squash bugs Thanks sanderson for the info on the Dust Buster it works great.

Glad it works for you also. Very Happy

**trolleydriver** 12/15/2017, 1:49 pm

This is not really "eating from my garden" but I thought I would share it anyway. I am going to be try making French Onion Soup using the recipe "Authentic French Onion Soup courtesy of Julia Child" that I found at

http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/authentic-french-onion-soup-courtesy-of-julia-child-356428

I still have some small onions from the SFG so I may throw one of them into the recipe just to be able to say it is what I am eating from my garden today.

I've never made this before and I am no cook (well I may be a bit crazy) so let's see how I do. Hopefully, it will turn out to be delicious and will warm me up on this very cold day.

**trolleydriver** 12/15/2017, 5:35 pm

trolleydriver wrote:This is not really "eating from my garden" but I thought I would share it anyway. I am going to be try making French Onion Soup using the recipe "Authentic French Onion Soup courtesy of Julia Child" that I found at

http://www.geniuskitchen.com/recipe/authentic-french-onion-soup-courtesy-of-julia-child-356428

I still have some small onions from the SFG so I may throw one of them into the recipe just to be able to say it is what I am eating from my garden today.

I've never made this before and I am no cook (well I may be a bit crazy) so let's see how I do. Hopefully, it will turn out to be delicious and will warm me up on this very cold day.

Well I am definitely no Julia Child when it comes to my abilities in the kitchen. However, the French Onion Soup turned out to be quite delicious. The original recipe said it was for 6 to 8 people so I cut it in half. Mrs TD will not go near the stuff although she did have a little taste. So this was all for me. I thought by cutting the quantities in half I would have enough for three or four bowls. The idea was that I would eat some today and store the rest for a future time. Maybe I am a pig but I only got about two bowls. As well I had to substitute a good brandy because I did not have any Cognac (which is a form of brandy anyway).

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**sanderson** 12/16/2017, 3:06 pm

TD, can you share this in the food section? If there isn't a thread, make one. Julie Child's French Onion Soup.

countrynaturals 12/16/2017, 5:46 pm

I was about to give up on indoor gardening. My cucumber plant was headed for the compost, along with its powdery mildew, aphids, and fruit flies. Mad

When I went to get it off the table, look what I found hanging down behind the edge by the window.
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Needless to say, all was forgiven. I chowed down on that cucumber (nice and crunchy), took the plant outside and gave it a good bath. Now I'm going to spray the heck out of it and bring it back in. I've learned several more lessons about veggie gardening in the house. I'll share them all in another thread.

Roseinarosecity 12/16/2017, 10:03 pm

Impressive cucumber! Looking forward to your future indoor growing thread.

countrynaturals 12/18/2017, 6:15 pm

Roseinarosecity wrote:Impressive cucumber! Looking forward to your future indoor growing thread.

I attached it to an old one from a very successful indoor gardener. https://squarefoot.forumotion.com/t3548p25-indoor-container-garden-city-living#275890

Got a cherry tomato from my inside plant yesterday, and another one today. Cool

**Scorpio Rising** 12/18/2017, 10:42 pm

countrynaturals wrote:I was about to give up on indoor gardening. My cucumber plant was headed for the compost, along with its powdery mildew, aphids, and fruit flies. When I went to get it off the table, look what I found hanging down behind the edge by the window.

Needless to say, all was forgiven. I chowed down on that cucumber (nice and crunchy), took the plant outside and gave it a good bath. Now I'm going to spray the heck out of it and bring it back in. I've learned several more lessons about veggie gardening in the house. I'll share them all in another thread.

Nice! Yum...how do you get them pollinated?

countrynaturals 12/18/2017, 11:51 pm

Scorpio Rising wrote:
countrynaturals wrote:I was about to give up on indoor gardening. My cucumber plant was headed for the compost, along with its powdery mildew, aphids, and fruit flies. When I went to get it off the table, look what I found hanging down behind the edge by the window.

Needless to say, all was forgiven. I chowed down on that cucumber (nice and crunchy), took the plant outside and gave it a good bath. Now I'm going to spray the heck out of it and bring it back in. I've learned several more lessons about veggie gardening in the house. I'll share them all in another thread.
Nice! Yum...how do you get them pollinated?

I use a paintbrush, but I didn't even know that one was there. I must have pollinated it a long time ago, then it fell down behind the table and I didn't realize it. There it grew like Topsy. Very Happy

**sanderson** 12/19/2017, 3:12 pm

Last night, roasted veggies including my own counter-ripened tomatoes. Shocked

delicous

Roseinarosecity 1/11/2018, 5:16 pm

This will be tonight's vegetables: Bok Choy--Toy Choy variety.
And harvested just in time because I could see little flower buds in the center.

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Well, maybe not all of it will be dinner; I'll save some for the next day.

**Scorpio Rising** 1/11/2018, 10:11 pm

Roseinarosecity wrote:This will be tonight's vegetables: Bok Choy--Toy Choy variety.
And harvested just in time because I could see little flower buds in the center.

Well, maybe not all of it will be dinner; I'll save some for the next day.

Gorgeous! Rose, what will you make with it?

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