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

[jen4]

hoodat wrote

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

... they are so good raw or cooked. I love them, so glad we planted them this year, they will be a keeper!

 

[hoodat]

I have to wait about a month more before I plant my sugar snaps. They're a Winter crop in this part of the country but we get a very long harvest season. They last till warm weather gives them downy mildew.

 

[ducks4you]

hoodat, you are SO lucky!! This is my first year planting sugarsnap peas, and mine are still producing. I took a chance and planted them in a 2 foot bed on the west side of my garage. Even though we've had highs in the upper 90's this summer ( with tons of humidity!! ), the are still producing fruit!!

MY SURPRISE was two nights ago. I was moving my hose from the garden to the horse trough and past my "not sure if ANYTHING will come up where I tilled and planted in May", orchard garden. I look down and found scads of big, fat, long green beans!!! We had a big bowlfull for dinner. NOW, I want to harvest more.

 

[ducks4you]

ducks4you Poetry Corner
After the 4th of July,
I had a yen for pie.
I baked 3 up,
so DH could sup
1 cherry, 2 pumpkin! Oh, MY!!

(Montmorency cherries from my tree, and canned pumpkin from 2008 garden, made with eggs from my chickens.)

 

[lesa]

ducks, I never thought about canning my own pumpkin. Do you need a pressure canner?

 

[ducks4you]

I should have used a pressure canner. My pumpkin never lasts as along as my tomatoes in a jar. It's not hard to tell that it's going bad, but nobody wants THAT. This time I WILL use a pressure canner to can my pumpkin.

 

[Kim_NC]

Pumpkin should be pressure canned, and cubed, not mashed or pureed. WB canning pumpkin is not safe.

The NCHFP has directions here:
http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/can_04/pumpkin_winter_squash.html

 

[BetterHensandGardens]

Tonight it's blackberry cobbler, technically the blackberries are not from my garden, they grow wild here very prolifically, so all I have to do is pick. Got a love it!

The cobbler recipe is on my website here: http://www.betterhensandgardens.com/2010/07/14/blackberries-and-cobbler/

 

[jen4]

Fresh Salsa

 

[curly_kate]

With my blackberry harvest this season, I have made jam, syrup, sorbet, cobbler, and ice cream. I think I'll go back to the top of the rotation this weekend, and make some more jam.

I would have made salsa last night, but I forgot to pick up a few ingredients on the way home from dinner. That's what I'll be doing tonight. Gonna be pickles this weekend. I LOVE this time of year!!