What are You Eating from the Garden?

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I really didn't know this. My mother's favourite plant


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Melons – both Galia and Lily Crenshaw :).

Lots of green beans and a few peas from an August sowing ... Mustard greens – chopped as thin as possible before sautéing, seems to make them both more tender and and less bitter. Bok choy and the kale now and then – although we are trying to save the kale for later with limited harvesting. Kale is harvested right through the growing season so we don't have the enormous plants that I once grew for Winter.

Lots and Lots of tomatoes ... Peppers, both sweet and hot ... Cucumbers in great numbers ...

Soups, several times a week with carrots, celeriac, onions and garlic. Whatever the meat chosen, there's always the choice of potatoes, pasta, rice, and pearled barley. (Oh, those last 3 aren't grown in our garden. ;)) Thyme, rosemary, lemongrass, basil ... soon, our ginger roots will be out of pots and into the kitchen.

And, of course, desserts. Four loaves of zucchini bread. Those are easy recipes and I didn't even bother with the big electric mixer. With DW's help with crust, I made a final rhubarb pie. (Actually, there's one in the freezer from earlier so that must be the final. ;)) Pumpkin pie is on the menu, soon.

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baked beans (including dry beans, onions and tomatoes from the gardens).

i made up a large pot of beans and then had to break it into two pots when it started overflowing. used those in making up three large pans of baked beans (onions, homemade bbq sauce, a quart of tomato chunks, eight cups each of cooked dry beans and two packages of hot dogs for two pans (so one package of hot dogs for each pan and then one vegetarian pan)).

three quarts left of the cooked dry beans went into the freezer for eventual burritos and i ate what didn't fit.
 

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Lots of cherry tomatoes, several small jalapeno peppers (some mild like bell peppers and some piping hot!) and some kale.

I made something really yummy with the peppers - I grilled some chicken breasts and made a cheesy sauce to put on top that consisted of
melted cream cheese, cheddar cheese, bacon slices, and some diced onion.
 

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Can you share the recipe?

very simple, ketchup, brown sugar, mustard, onions (in whatever amounts you find good to your tastes). no spices other than what is in the ketchup - Mom can't tolerate anything hot or spicy ( :( ) ... tomato chunks were added to provide some more flavor and liquid to survive baking and i thought things would thicken up after it cooled but it wasn't quite as thick as i expected. next time we'll have to use a bit less of them.
 
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