What did you eat from the garden today?

[frustratedearthmother]

OH yum - they both sound delish!

 

[sumi]

I was thinking of baking it too… I may toss half of it into the oven with that pork chop!

 

[Mini Horses]

That zucchini looks almost like a little watermelon. Cute. I like to use the oversized zucs to fill with a stuffing...sometimes with other zeggies or some ground meats. Depends on if I want a side or main dish from it. They're good with onion, garlic, peppers, stuffing mix, scooped out -- filled -- cheese sprinkled on top -- baked. I've also thrown in things like rice and whatever.

I'm baking a couple of these butternut, from last year! -- over the weekend. May even make a little bit of soup. And need to cook & can the rest. I raised this last year and they are a great storing squash!! Will grow more of them next year.

Yes -- FEM -- we can count that goat milk! Especially if you milked her while in there

I made some nectarine preserves -- only a perfect pint size batch -- from some I had brought home from a demo last week and didn't eat, so --- had to "do" something. Today, I had more of them come home. About 5#. Plan to do some more of those jam/preserves. Using 1/2 pint jars this time. And 2# of apricots left, so I am putting slices in the dehydrator. Should have some figs ripening soon, another dehydrator thing, from a friends tree. We have 3 branches in dirt at the base of her tree, to root up for me to bring here.

These fruits are nice because I can water bath a few jars easily. I mixed the ones I just made with raspberry balsamic vinegar, sugar & a touch of cloves. Cooked them down to a thick consistency. Tasted good.

My garden is grass but, I am going to make good use of all this lovely free fruit!!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

But it all came right here from our property!

That's such a great feeling! Makes it all feel like it's worth the effort.

 

[Hinotori]

All the shiro plums were ripe so I picked them and we've been pigging out.

If any apples survive the deer, we'll have them soon

 

[sumi]

Yesterday we had a dish my wife called southwest chicken. Pretty much chicken covered in homemade salsa and baked. But it all came right here from our property!

More and more i find our plates have more of our own food on them. Sometimes 2/3s sometimes all of it. Our grocery bill last month was under $200 for the 6 of us and that was mostly coffee and lunch stuff.

That's amazing! Homesteading and working the land is hard and often disheartening, but so very rewarding And that homegrown food tastes so much better than the shop bought stuff too!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I saw some potatoes when I weeded around them this afternoon and brought in what I could get without digging, which was 4 small ones. Had those with a huge carrot and some peas for our dinner, along with some fish.

That's awesome!

 

[cabinguy]

Abundance of tomatoes from garden means pizza sauce LOVE PIZZA
DW made me happy with the smell of homemade pizza sauce.

 

[sumi]

Wow, that looks yum! I see about 27 jars there? That should cover a few pizzas

 

[Hinotori]

I did look up what could cause that. Harvesting too early came up. Did you leave them until the stems were dry before cutting?

I've been waiting impatiently on my pie pumpkins for the plant to die back and stems to dry but they are taking their sweet time about it.