Grape Jelly Day. We barely made a dent in the grape supply to get a full pot, so we’ll probably have at least another batch in the next few days.
*EDIT- I went out and harvested more than another full batch.
We used the usual ball recipe but a low sugar pectin
Turned all those tomatoes into salsa today
Following the recipe we definitely needed more jars- I also cooked down the skins and trimmed bits and strained them for paste.
I was away from the garden a little while- and came back to this…
I haven’t posted for every harvest, but here’s what I’ve been picking every 2 or three days.
I’ve been cooking yum stuff
And tonight we pickled beans and csa cucumbers (for fridge)
This week I made up a couple of new recipes to use up some CSA veggies.
The first I got no photos of- but it’s delicious. I roasted patty pan squash (4 parts) carrots (1 pt) potatoes (2 pt) with some onion, then stewed them with a broth, basil, garlic, paprika and chili flakes. Then I used the immersion blender. Great thick soup hot or cold.y
The second recipe is also VERY good. I sautéed some garlic and chili flakes on olive oil then let kale and sorrel wilt in there. Then I put that, fresh basil, parmigiana, and frozen garlic in the food processor. It tastes really yummy and I’m going to put it on pasta. —- needs lots of olive oil for pasta
We are really enjoying the beaver lodge plum tomatoes and they are ripening quickest. Also got a good number of scarlet runner beans and Romano beans today
Still thinning out the carrots and watering the seeds I planted (arugula was the first to come up, some dill sprouts and beets sprouts visible today.) there are several thornless blackberries under there.
Weather was cooler the last couple of days, so the tomatoes are still ripening slowly.
Salad is ripening, holy basil is growing,
Got a nice little hall of veggies.
And cleaned up the garlic and onions. Braided the soft necks.
First Roma! First couple of beaver lodge (yum!)
Planted favas in south D.
