The Front Porch Swing

[LindaB220]

@bruceha2000 Yeah, you yanks cut your meats pretty differently over there. It's actually even better with pork shanks, though then you should cut slits in the skin before applying the paste to it.

Now that I can get into. Deep south has tons of pork. Not any affordable lamb. I'll go back a few pages and get the recipe.

Edited: found it right above.

 

[Tomtommom]

Now that I can get into. Deep south has tons of pork. Not any affordable lamb. I'll go back a few pages and get the recipe.

Edited: found it right above.

 

[vehve]

Linda, I hope you like it. And feel free to report back how it turned out, same for anyone else who tries any of my recipes. I enjoy critique

 

[MistyMountain]

The bad weather kept me from going into a festival in the city and pointed me toward the local farmer's market. I had always meant to check things out, but never had a chance. I happened across a vendor with ground cherries and was brought back to my childhood and visiting the Farmer's Market with Nana. It has probably been 20 some years since I have had any of those! I ate almost the whole bag that day. The vendor also had Pawpaws, which I had been wanting to try. Needless to say, I am in love. So… if it is the right season, we will also be adding pawpaw trees to our property along with pears the end of the month.

Deb, did I see you post a recipe a while back for crock pot apple butter? Or was it someone else? I have some less than beautiful apples that need to turn into something before they jump off the tree and become deer treats.

 

[perchie.girl]

The bad weather kept me from going into a festival in the city and pointed me toward the local farmer's market. I had always meant to check things out, but never had a chance. I happened across a vendor with ground cherries and was brought back to my childhood and visiting the Farmer's Market with Nana. It has probably been 20 some years since I have had any of those! I ate almost the whole bag that day. The vendor also had Pawpaws, which I had been wanting to try. Needless to say, I am in love. So… if it is the right season, we will also be adding pawpaw trees to our property along with pears the end of the month.

Deb, did I see you post a recipe a while back for crock pot apple butter? Or was it someone else? I have some less than beautiful apples that need to turn into something before they jump off the tree and become deer treats.

Not this deb.... Though there is one on Allrecipes.com. I used that.... it was too sweet. There are a bunch on line...

deb

 

[MistyMountain]

Not this deb.... Though there is one on Allrecipes.com. I used that.... it was too sweet. There are a bunch on line...

deb

Hmm… you never know where I lurk these days… and the terrible thing is, it is entirely possible that I saw it on allrecipes.com and nowhere on byc at all.

 

[KentuckyMom]

There is a recipe for Crockpot Apple Butter under the recipes section of BYC. I made pear butter in the crock pot this year because the pear tree had an over abundance. Yum!

 

[Tomtommom]

The bad weather kept me from going into a festival in the city and pointed me toward the local farmer's market. I had always meant to check things out, but never had a chance. I happened across a vendor with ground cherries and was brought back to my childhood and visiting the Farmer's Market with Nana. It has probably been 20 some years since I have had any of those! I ate almost the whole bag that day. The vendor also had Pawpaws, which I had been wanting to try. Needless to say, I am in love. So… if it is the right season, we will also be adding pawpaw trees to our property along with pears the end of the month.

Deb, did I see you post a recipe a while back for crock pot apple butter? Or was it someone else? I have some less than beautiful apples that need to turn into something before they jump off the tree and become deer treats.

We have pawpaws growing wild locally, but they're all gone now. People pick those puppies as soon as they're ripe

I love the flavor, it's bananamangopineappley. Three of my favorite fruits in one. You can buy cultivars with less/smaller seeds. The wild ones are a whole lotta seed, not much flesh.

 

[bruceha2000]

Also there has been a trend here to trim the fat on meat. Used to be when you bought a Tbone or Porterhouse there would be a rim of half inch to three quarter inches of fat around the outside edges. Then everyone went all Health conscious and the trim was ""trimmed down"" to quarter inch. Now I am seeing steaks in the store that have ALL the fat removed.

The fat is where the flavor is peeple.... I would love to have the choice to choose a fatty piece of meat.... I suspect I can order it that way at a Butcher shop. But all the small butcher shops are pretty much gone around here.

deb

That would be true, however it is the marbling in the meat that gives it flavor and tenderness, less so the large slabs surrounding the muscle. I think I'd rather not pay for that 3/4" of fat

The bad weather kept me from going into a festival in the city and pointed me toward the local farmer's market. I had always meant to check things out, but never had a chance. I happened across a vendor with ground cherries and was brought back to my childhood and visiting the Farmer's Market with Nana. It has probably been 20 some years since I have had any of those! I ate almost the whole bag that day. The vendor also had Pawpaws, which I had been wanting to try. Needless to say, I am in love. So… if it is the right season, we will also be adding pawpaw trees to our property along with pears the end of the month.

Deb, did I see you post a recipe a while back for crock pot apple butter? Or was it someone else? I have some less than beautiful apples that need to turn into something before they jump off the tree and become deer treats.

OK, had to look up "ground cherries". First I thought of the act of grinding and had no idea what a bunch of ground up cherries would look like and why one would want to eat them that way

I went to Morrisville to pick up my roof snow guard parts and stopped at an organic farm stand on the way back. Got 1/2 pint of late raspberries, a small (really small, < 2 pounds) watermelon, 4 ears of corn (2 white, 2 bicolor) and a huge apple (11 oz!) that I did not recognize the name of. I asked about it, it is tart and Janet likes tart apples so I bought her one. Of course now I can't remember what it was and can't even find it on the web

They also had physalis. I had NO idea what that was and didn't pay much attention. Seems I missed an opportunity today.

After TTM's description of PawPaws, I think I need to get some.

 

[perchie.girl]

Oooh Ground cherries are interesting.... iN the Nightshade family like tomatoes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physalis

Very interesting.... are they sweet?

deb