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

[digitS']

This thread hasn't been added to for several months. Since, we've had 6 inches of snow so far today, more is falling in a 20+mph wind (visibility at the local airport down to 1/4 mile), and the temperature is starting to plummet -- I thought I'd mention the leek and potato soup I had for lunch .

Leeks are wonderful but I will need to make quick use of the big bunch that are still in the produce drawer. They were harvested about the 1st of November and a little over 2 months is close to the limit for storage in my fridge.

Two more big pots of soup over the next week with much of it going in the freezer. That's about what I figure it will take.

There are still plenty of Yukon Gold potatoes to go with them and I just broke into my Christmas summer sausage for that "added something."

Oh, and there is fresh brewed coffee and buttercup squash pie for dessert!



Steve

 

[jojo54]

I have company coming over for lasagna. Homemade sauce from my tomatoes, garlic, onions and herbs plus garlic toast using my garlic. Only veggies store bought are for the salad.

 

[JimWWhite]

Yesterday we had the last of our collard greens fresh from our garden, black-eyed peas we froze last summer, some slaw made from cabbage we took out back in November, and some okra we cut right up to the first freeze. Teresa made herself a small pork roast to go with all this (I'm not a carnivore). It don't get no better...

 

[freemotion]

I made a big pot of chicken soup on Wed that we are still eating from! Made a pot pie with some yesterday...yum! I used our own chickens, and from our gardens, scallions, carrots, parsley, rosemary, and homemade sea salt. Plus a few store bought ingredients....black pepper, rutabaga, parsnips. If I'd had some rutabaga and parsnips from the garden (those two failed this year) I would've used red pepper instead of black, just to make it 100% home grown.

 

[hoodat]

Just had a nice stir fry with snap peas, onions, mushrooms and some walnuts added in. Mushrooms and walnuts weren't from my garden but the peas and onions (actually shallots) were.

 

[lesa]

Added swiss chard, and onion from the garden to my brown rice and beans. Nice to taste a little summer!

 

[digitS']

. . . from my garden . . . peas and onions (actually shallots) . .

Ha! I got out a package of my frozen (shell) peas, chopped some shallots and made a casserole!

Frozen turkey from Thanksgiving, cooked rice, mixed in with mushroom soup and a nice smoked cheddar on top!

We will have polenta with celeriac tomorrow, it is already made. I would never have thought of the combination until I came across this food column in the NYTimes.

Another big pot of leek and potato soup was cooked up yesterday. Most of it went into the freezer. I've got one more batch to put together real soon and then my leeks will be finished - but there will still be soup in the freezer .

Steve

 

[hoodat]

Those shallots keep so much easier and longer than onions.

 

[digitS']

Hoodie, I've got my shallots in the garage. It freezes in there!

For about 20 years I have grown shallots and some of the original variety (the French Grey) has been in my garage every winter. And, the Prisma shallots have been stored this way for about 5 winters.

I can't recommend this because it just seems risky. It would probably work better if I would plant them like garlic - in the fall. I did lose my Dutch Golden shallots somewhere along the line - but, I think I just ate all my sets .

Steve

 

[FarmerDenise]

I went round the field this morning picking whatever greens I could find to toss up a salad. I found some swiss chard, some young mustard greens, beet tops, chickweed, green onions, parsley and some other weeds. I'll shred some carrrots from the garden into this mess and we will have ourselves a nice salad tonight. I made ranch dressing using homemade yogurt and dried homegrown herbs. I will also make a vinagrette using home made vinegar (made from our ouwn fruit). We will have spaghetti with tomato sauce I canned last summer using our garden's bounty.

A few days ago I made a hearty vegetable soup using as many of our own vegies as I had available as well as some leftover vegies from a party. The broth was made with a home grown chicken. That evening we had home grown blackberries for desert.