What are You Eating from the Garden?

[Branching Out]

What is it that you like about Kiri Squash? I have read articles praising it, just never ate it.

For some reason I really enjoy growing squash, and Red Kuri is a nice size--about the same size as a large melon. The big orange orbs look beautiful in the autumn garden. This year one vine climbed up a Hinoki Cypress shrub, with the squash hanging from the branches like holiday ornaments. In terms of eating them I like the creamy texture, and the bright orange colour. We haven't done a lot of cooking with them, but I recall that this variety makes a nice Red Thai Curry soup. This morning I'm eating it plain in an effort to consume a healthy vegetable to start my day. Otherwise I probably would have cut myself a much larger slice of carrot cake.

 

[ducks4you]

I wasn't sure where to add this clip but figured this thread is a good as anywhere

Elliot Coleman

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-winter-harvest-handbook-year-round-vegetable-production-using-deep-organic-techniques-and-unheated-greenhouses_eliot-coleman/53480535/item/10400318/?mkwid=%7cdc&pcrid=77103417407098&pkw=&pmt=be&slid=&product=10400318&plc=&pgrid=1233652299428776&ptaid=pla-4580702892164497&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping+%7c+NEW+condition+books&utm_term=&utm_content=%7cdc%7cpcrid%7c77103417407098%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7cbe%7cproduct%7c10400318%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c1233652299428776%7cptaid%7cpla-4580702892164497%7c&msclkid=4b196161b0b21278c471062af4c5d642#idiq=10400318&edition=5250916

who grows 12 months/year east coast of Maine, buries clam shells in his garden soil. He said that he expects it take decades for the shells to decompose, but it's free calcium.
A couple of hundred years ago Colonialists in what is now New England, would harvest lobster to use to fertilize their gardens. LOTS of lobster, not as highly valued as today.
It isn't that I wouldn't put fish heads in my garden. It is just that we are landlocked, unlike many Australians--and I love this guy, btw!--and many Brits. If I buried beef and pork and chicken and turkey bones, I would have animals dig them up.
I would need to bury them in the Fall and cover with wood and bricks.

 

[Marie2020]

Elliot Coleman

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-winter-harvest-handbook-year-round-vegetable-production-using-deep-organic-techniques-and-unheated-greenhouses_eliot-coleman/53480535/item/10400318/?mkwid=%7cdc&pcrid=77103417407098&pkw=&pmt=be&slid=&product=10400318&plc=&pgrid=1233652299428776&ptaid=pla-4580702892164497&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Shopping+%7c+NEW+condition+books&utm_term=&utm_content=%7cdc%7cpcrid%7c77103417407098%7cpkw%7c%7cpmt%7cbe%7cproduct%7c10400318%7cslid%7c%7cpgrid%7c1233652299428776%7cptaid%7cpla-4580702892164497%7c&msclkid=4b196161b0b21278c471062af4c5d642#idiq=10400318&edition=5250916

who grows 12 months/year east coast of Maine, buries clam shells in his garden soil. He said that he expects it take decades for the shells to decompose, but it's free calcium.
A couple of hundred years ago Colonialists in what is now New England, would harvest lobster to use to fertilize their gardens. LOTS of lobster, not as highly valued as today.
It isn't that I wouldn't put fish heads in my garden. It is just that we are landlocked, unlike many Australians--and I love this guy, btw!--and many Brits. If I buried beef and pork and chicken and turkey bones, I would have animals dig them up.
I would need to bury them in the Fall and cover with wood and bricks.

I hope I can get some fish to bury, only a little unless I can get someone to help.

I want to drop some lovely squash seeds into my garden. Now my chickens have gone I may have a chance of growing something if I can keep the slugs off everything

 

[flowerbug]

Last night we cooked up a couple of pounds of ground beef for burrito filling. Included in the mix were home grown garlic, Basque peppers, and Rio Zape beans. Once the mixture has cooled we stir in cheese. Then we fold the filling up in 10" tortillas and freeze the burritos; makes for an easy meal in the winter. This morning breakfast is baked Red Kuri squash and carrot cake with cream cheese icing. I weighed the grated carrots and there was almost exactly one pound in that cake recipe.

it all looks delicious!

 

[flowerbug]

... If I buried beef and pork and chicken and turkey bones, I would have animals dig them up.
I would need to bury them in the Fall and cover with wood and bricks.

if you put the bones through the compost pile you probably won't have much of an issue with animals digging them up after.

around here because of the mostly clay soil it is very rare that anything i bury gets disturbed and we have a resident population of raccoons that sniff out about anything they can find interesting. one time i buried a huge wild turkey (it got hit by a car right out front and i didn't want to smell in the rest of the summer) in a trench that was less than two feet deep and nothing touched it. this year was the first time in ages i had one of my buried hunting incidents disturbed, there wasn't much left of it by that point and i put the dirt back over it. it got disturbed again. nothing there really to be disturbed but it must have smelled good to the raccoon. for all i know it could be all dug out there now and the raccoon could be nesting in there because i've not been back there for several weeks to look or garden - been busy with other things...

the sandier or lighter the soil the deeper you'd have to bury things... maybe put some onion and garlic scraps over them... sprinkle some dill seeds on top... mints... oreganoes... making myself hungry...

 

[akroberts]

I'm planning on making a stew and using some of the peppers I managed to get big enough to use. Hopefully they don't turn out to be hotter than Haiti LOL but it will give my stew some good flavor.

 

[Branching Out]

I had read somewhere that Hidatsa Shield Figure beans are good for hummus, so I made a couple of batches of it. The flavour is really nice! (Next time I will double the garlic though). Recently I learned that you can freeze hummus; there are now several glass jars of it tucked in the freezer. They will be handy to have for holiday entertaining.

 

[Dahlia]

I had read somewhere that Hidatsa Shield Figure beans are good for hummus, so I made a couple of batches of it. The flavour is really nice! (Next time I will double the garlic though). Recently I learned that you can freeze hummus; there are now several glass jars of it tucked in the freezer. They will be handy to have for holiday entertaining.

I love homemade hummus, especially in hummus wraps!

 

[akroberts]

My stew was good but it somehow took on too much salt. I don't know if it was the stew package or the fajita veggies I used but WOW, that was salty.

 

[ducks4you]

Funny, Eldest DD FB messaged me Tuesday night bc nobody had gotten the round steak out of the freezer to prep it for dinner, and she needed ideas. I wrote back (When I was up at 3AM!) that we needed to eat through the 12ish roasts, so I crock potted one.
At at more Reasonable morning hour, DH went to the basement freezer (where the specialty meats are kept), retrieved a chuck roast, went to the basement pantry and retrieved a quart of beef broth, and I went to town.
I started the broth and the potatoes and onions and carrots first. I was dealing with a frozen roast, so I carefully and slowly defrosted it to just cold. The meat cooked for about 6 hours.
Everybody was delighted with dinner and I then realized that I hadn't added ANY salt to it.
The only thing that we ate from the garden was the garlic!