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We’ve been processing tomatoes
Posted by Lauren on 25 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: canning, harvest, pictures, putting by, tomatoes
We’ve been processing tomatoes, originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
… a little at a time. We don’t have a pot that holds more than four quart-jars anyway so it works out.
We have also slow-roasted and frozen a couple of pounds, and have dried some too.
Pictured: Green Zebra; Ananas Noire; Black Prince; Brandywine; more varieties whose names I don’t know; some basil; an apple.
Harvest moon dinner
Posted by Lauren on 15 Sep 2008 | Tagged as: comestibles, eating, harvest, pictures
Corn: garden.
Artichokes: garden.
Cabbage for coleslaw: garden.
Bread: homemade.
Burger: from our cow.
Ripe Green Zebra tomato on the burger: garden.
The Harvest Moon is full tonight.
Burrito fixins
Posted by Lauren on 23 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: cabbage, comestibles, pictures, potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini
Stew meat (from our quarter cow) was braising in the oven. Garden potatoes boiled like normal. Garden zucchini and garden tomatoes grilled briefly. All combined in a delicious tortilla with a sauce of sour cream + goat yogurt (island grown!) plus garden basil. Garden cabbage on top. Yum.
“Do I have to explain the obvious? … We have to lock the doors! Someone might put zucchini in our house!”
Posted by Lauren on 20 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: comestibles, eating, harvest, recipes, summer squash
Unfortunately, our zucchini and other summer squash plants are neither as prolific nor as numerous as those of Barbara Kingsolver, whose chapter on squash in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle I just finished. We appear to be further hampered by the wet spring and summer we’ve had here, unless I am doing something else wrong that would lead to what appears to be blossom-end rot on a significant portion of the little (and even the big!) fruits.
Zucchini with blossom-end rot? (That’s my six-inch santoku knife for comparison), originally uploaded by laurenipsum.
In any case, though it’s somewhat disappointing, of course, it might be OK, given Kingsolver’s struggles to eat it all, and the fact that last night I harvested a 2+ pound zucchini as well as a monster pattypan. If all the blossoms and fruits that rotted had survived and were this big, I think I would lose my mind. But these two monsters made a delicious dinner and two lunches’ worth of baked squash with breadcrumbs (I added garlic, of course).
Wine for comparison and also for deliciousness.
Zucchini: 2 lbs, 4.6 oz.
Big pattypan: 12.1 oz.
Small pattypan: 3.3 oz.
Malbec: 2006 Alberti 154, Mendoza, Argentina.
Impromptu harvest
Posted by Lauren on 10 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Uncategorized, beets, carrots, harvest
Garth’s mom was over and we were showing her the beets and the carrots, and we decided to pull some up for dinners and preserving.
