The Any Wonderful Food You Made From Your Garden Today Thread!

[lesa]

Holy apricots, desertcat!! Is that from one tree?? I made pickles and I have 10 pounds of blackberries about to become jam!

 

[desertcat]

Right now I wish I had only 1 apricot tree. Unfortunately I have 14 of the things. And no, I'm not the one who planted them!

 

[BlackThumb]

Sauteed pattypan squash slices in butter, seasoned with bacon salt. 2 DIE 4

 

[hoodat]

I felt like making some gumbo Ya Ya tonight. You start with the "sacred trinity" of cajun cooking (green pepper, celery and onion sauteed with butter and a little garlic. I had some bacon drippings left in a skillet so I used that instead of butter. Gumbo Ya Ya uses three kinds of meat, I used chicken, andouille sausage and shrimp. Then I just tossed in whatever I could come up with in the garden; zuchini, corn, carrots and green beans. Spiced it up with some jalapeno, fresh Mexican oregano and savory from my herb corner and Thai pepper flakes from a couple of years ago and cooked it down in a roux and chicken stock. Stirred in some file to thicken it after I turned off the fire
MMMM! Good I garontee.

 

[lesa]

Hoodat, that sounds marvelous!! Pardon my stupidity, but what is file? I made 11 jars of blackberry jam, some blackberry sorbet and about a gallon of blackberry juice. I separated the seeds, and boiled them. Strained the juice out, added a little sugar and honey- it is the best juice I have ever had! Tonight, another batch of pickles!

 

[hoodat]

Regular gumbo is thickened with okra. In file gumbo you leave out the okra and use powdered sassafrass leaves to thicken it. File (pronounced fee-lay) is ground sassafrass leaves. The early settlers learned to use it from the Indians. You never use okra and file at the same time.

Oh Jambalay and a crawfish pie and a file gumbo.
For tonight I'm gonna see my macherimio.

Old Cajun song

 

[jen4]

Dinner... Sauteed squash, zucchini, onions, sugar snap peas with chicken and beets

 

[hoodat]

I can never get sugar snaps from the garden to the kitchen I stand there and browse on them like a goat.

 

[ducks4you]

Well, hoodat, I managed to cut some up this morning and fry them with my hen's eggs from yesterday. Pretty darn sweet, off the vine OR cooked, if you ask me!!

 

[journey11]

Roasted veggies (red new potatoes, turnips, carrots, red onion and broccoli--from garden; and celery--from store) with butter and creole seaoning. And grilled chicken breasts we raised/processed ourselves. Cukes with dip on the side.