What are you eating from the garden today?

[Nyboy]

figs some thing beat me to the pears.

 

[Beekissed]

You know all those tiny baby tubers that are so tedious to scrub prior to cooking? I found a neato way to scrub them thoroughly in just a few minutes with little effort on my part. I inserted a bottle brush into my cordless drill, soaked the tiny spuds for a bit in some water, then inserted that brush into the water and drilled away the grime! Rinsed and repeated three times, then gave a final rinse in a colander and those babies were clean as a whistle and some had been skinned even.

Can't take any credit for the idea, though, as I saw something similar on a YT vid.

 

[digitS']

Escarole!

(Hey, @Nyboy ) I didn't intend to grow it in the fall but one seed must have been buried too deep in the spring. A plant showed up long after the early escarole was harvested and, although it didn't get to any large size, it grew!

We ate it tonight with beans and sausage in a nice "peasant" soup!

I like how escarole holds up ... to July heat!

One accidental plant doesn't make for much of a test but it did okay. Obviously, it prefers to grow in cool weather because it was an almost unnoticeable size earlier. It survived 2 "killing" frosts, lots of cold and lately some very unpleasant wind and rain. Hey!

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

My mother made that soup all winter, she add pasta to it.

 

[digitS']

So, you are saying that it can survive overwinter??

I should have grown some for the greenhouse bed!

This morning:

Melons, galia and cantaloupe, ripened off the vine. This doesn't work all that well. I don't think the sugars develop properly. They have a fresh melon fragrance and flavor, at least. I'm not gonna sprinkle sugar on 'em! It's really quite alright if I mix it with yogurt but ... another very good melon season comes to an end ...

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

No mother did not grow anything,all produce from supermarket

 

[digitS']

carrots standing by ...

An awfully good way to enjoy parsnips.



Steve

 

[digitS']

Now I need a sweet onion and a couple potatoes from the basement to follow suit.

Leftover roast beef, diced ... a grind of black pepper ... and an egg!

Steve
Tabasco sauce on hand

 

[Carol Dee]

Now I need a sweet onion and a couple potatoes from the basement to follow suit.

Leftover roast beef, diced ... a grind of black pepper ... and an egg!

Steve
Tabasco sauce on hand

Yummmmm

 

[Smiles Jr.]

Our last 8 tomatoes. Our garden has been a total disaster this year. We got a late start and rain, rain, rain all season long.