Edibles '11 chapter 3 Harvest Time!

OK - I will get the biggest one and give it a try. Thanks Celeste.

Oh Oh! I have to tell you that I got myself a new coffee table made out of an antique lobster trap! Believe it or not - I have always wanted one and I got it at a tag sale for less than $40 with a glass for the top and a plastic lobster and two crabs! So much fun! Now I want to redo my house in "cottage" style.

Nice! Lots of those are sold on the coast.

Love those old traps.....Garret had some of the old wooden pot markers, don't know what he's done with them.....

Just got a bottle of juice imported from China, ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL


My daughter picked some cherry toms today can't believe I still had some on there

LOL! What kind of juice Jen?

Almost time for me to pick all my BUTTERNUT SQUASH so I dug out my cookie recipe so I can get DS to eat squash again. ^_^

Squash Cookies
4 cups of flour
2 cups of sugar
2 teas. of baking powder
2 teas. of baking soda
2 teas. of cinnamon
1 1/2 cups of crisco
1 1/2 cups of squash
2 eggs
2 teas. of vanilla
Mix well and drop cookies onto baking sheet. Bake @ 350 for 10 - 12 minutes.
Frosting:
Brown 1/2 cup of butter, add 4 cups confectioners sugar, 4 tabl. of milk and 2 teas. of vanilla and frost!

A great way to get your veggies! I like butternut apple soup...butternut squash ravioli....:>)

how many cookies does that make? lots of sugar.

I think like 3 or 4 dozen, depends on how big you make your drop cookies I guess. :)

Healthy Ideas 100% apple juice

Does anyone have a good recipe for pickled peppers?

Ask Peter??

i have used the ball jar recipe and it came out good. do not have the recipe handy though.

RD the butternut apple soup sounds good

I can google the Ball recipe, Bill... Allison, soup is way easy.....saute cubed squash, an onion, chopped celery, and a tart, peeled, cored apple in a few TBLS of canola oil...add a bay leaf & pepper...a little salt...after a few min. add chicken or vegetable stock, some white wine or water....cook until squash is tender....when cool, puree. You can add 1/4 cup 1/2 & 1/2, but you don't need it if you're watching fat calories....Victor, you're no help!

This message was edited Oct 3, 2011 6:36 PM

great thanks!

picked the last cuke - groundhog got all the squash and pumkins!

Cut into the watermelon and it was sweet!

the latest on the FDA's attempt to "regulate" local farmers:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44701485/ns/health-food_safety/

IMHO - food from a local farmer is much, much, much safer than food in a cellophane wrapper from another country. Also - the FDA does not have the best track record.

More power grabs by the gov. So what else is new?

I agree...a farmer up the road a piece sells grass fed beef....he had an article in the paper & complained bitterly about govt. regs.....some very petty stuff....sickening! Sorry about your crop, Bill :>(

Picked em....needed the tractor to haul them back to the shed.

nice haul!

nice Celeste!!

Thank you!! next year I want to grow more!!!!!

whatcha doing with all that squash?

Eating it. :) Squash cookies, baked squash, squash pie, squash bread, soup, name it! LOL

wow.. I am jealous!!

OK...I need to plant winter squash next spring!

I planted a row of mixed beets....2 of them are the size of rhutabagas....I've got them boiling away right now, hope they won't be too woody......also picked enough green beans for a meal.....

Making watermelon rind pickles - have no idea what they taste like but at 8 cups of sugar for 4 qts of rind, they will at least be sweet!

Sound like candy....

Diabetic coma!

I tasted a couple pieces last night and it is not as sweet as I expected and the mustard seed in the spice kick up a bit of heat.

I never tried that pickle.....I'm disappointed in the pickled peppers I made....they could have used less sugar, & more heat....

Harvesting saffron now. Planted garlic and shallots today and did some general cleaning around the yard. Looked at the eggplants and darn if there weren't a couple of small ones - I wonder if they will beat the frost to picking size? The three pumpkins are only a little orange so I picked and put them in a sunny area hoping they would color up this week. Next weekend I have to work in the Jerusalem Artichoke patch. One of the varieties has nearly smooth, egg shaped bulbs. I'm going to get rid of all the knarly bulbs and hope that the smooth ones will take over. Picked a mess of greens to cook with potatoes for lunch this week. Still getting figs!

And who says are climate isn't changing? I picked quite a few green beans today...BUT...we may get a frost at the end of the week....probably not in Bridgeport though....

Climate IS changing but not for the reasons currently talked about.

I think the climate has been changing since Carolina wrens started to live in CT....

Just went out to shake the snow off the fig and medlar tree. Lots of medlars dropped off, but they should be OK as they need a freeze to get ripe anyway. Found two ripe figs! Got up early and picked whatever was left to pick - some zucchini, mustard greens, parsley and chard. I m going to miss my garden.