Moral Conundrum -- The "Bartering Eggs For Coffee" WILL HAPPEN!

[dangerouschicken]

I would ask you how you found that out, but it would sound inappropriate, even though it isn't intended to be

If you make apple cider vinegar, I would trade you something for that. We love that stuff, especially when canning our homemade apple butter. Gives it a great zing!

We are eating that head of lettuce tonight as part of a Korean samgyeopsal meal. Pork, rice, kimchi, garlic, and Korean hot red pepper paste wrapped in big lettuce leaves. YUM!

 

[dacjohns]

I'm hungry. I spent a year in Korea. The food is delicious and yours looks delicious also. Hangul on the bottle. Cool.

 

[SeaChick]

DC-
Do your have a recipe for that Korean meal you would like to share???

I barter with a family that has organic pastured pork and FABULOUS lacto-fermented Kim Chi..... and our family loves Thai, Japanese, Chinese; I'm betting Olivia/Envirogirl would like the Korean meal you describe.

Stacey

 

[Alaska animal lover]

I just got my Seed Savers Exchange catalog in the mail!!
Off to circle my "I wants"

 

[rodandbrandy]

Dangerouschicken, your garden is my dream, tell me all about it!! I would love to know more about your raised beds, I am in the infancy stages of trying to accomplish what you are deep in the middle of, I would love to hear more, pm me some more about your garden if you don't feel like posting it but I bet I am not the only one who would love to hear it!!

 

[dangerouschicken]

OOooooo! Fun for you, Alaska! That is like crack to me

Seed Saver's Exchange has a couple of things I love:

Galeux d'Eysines Squash, Aunt Molly's Ground Cherries, Armenian Cucumber, Shvelisi Garlic, Scarlet Runner Beans, Hutterite Soup Beans, Green Flageolet Beans, Tiger's Eye Beans.... actually they have so many beans, I couldn't grow them all if I wanted.

I ordered about 10 tomato starts from SSE this year, and they were the sorriest looking plants you have ever seen, but they have all perked up nicely, and as I said, are two feet or taller now. But the best tomato plants I purchased where organics from the people at Oregon Tilth. I think I have 22 tomato plants right now. They are all looking STUNNING.

My favorite seed place is Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Everything I have planted by them has germinated! You know how usually you plant 8 squash seeds to get maybe 3 or 4 up? Well with BCHS, they all come up! Next year I will plant less so I don't have to thin as much (and as a result waste seeds). BCHS also has the best melon sections on the web. I bought 8 different kinds, but next year will buy twice as many. I am so freakin' garden obsessed!

Which melons did I buy? Banana, Green Machine, Tigger, Golden Midget, Moon & Stars, Sugar Baby, Orangeglo, and Golden Sweet. I hope I have MILLIONS of them come August and September

Edited to add: I will post the Korean recipe in a moment. I am doing like 25 things at one time, as usual

 

[dangerouschicken]

Samgyeopsal is really easy. My sister-in-law is Korean, and she taught us how to make it.

Essentially you just need the ingredients I listed before:

pork (Koreans use pork belly, but you can also use sliced pork chops, pork roast, or even bacon)
white SHORT GRAIN rice
garlic
Korean hot red pepper paste
big lettuce leaves
kimchi

You fry the slices of pork and drain. You cook the rice. You peel and slice the garlic. You fill a tiny rice bowl with red pepper paste. You separate and wash the lettuce leaves. You open the container of kimchi and put into a bowl.

Place items on the table. Each person takes a little each of item, puts them in their own lettuce leaf, wraps them up together, and eats them. It is a little package of heaven! The lettuce and rice will "cool" the spicy ingredients of red pepper paste, garlic, and kimchi. The pork is the star, though. You will want to eat like, 400 of these. Once you get going, you have a hard time putting it down. Served with soju for adults and cool tea for kids. TASTY!

My brother is a vegan, so his wife makes tofu for him when we have this. My dad likes beef, so she'll also do sliced steak for him. Some like chicken. We like it with pork, which is the traditional way. You can also add other ingredients like bean sprouts, jalapeno peppers, or Asian pickles. Whatever you are into. Just make sure those lettuce leaves are big and strong to hold all your stuff.

Enjoy!

 

[greyfields]

kalbi ribs.... i usually do a mix of lamb, beef short ribs and pork baby backs marinated for 24 hours prior to grilling....

 

[LoneCowboy]

Lemons? I got an indoor minature lemon tree for Christmas. It's supposed to actually grow lemons. It's doing very well. You can find them online.

Or does that have to be local too?

 

[greyfields]

You can grow lemons easily where she lives.