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[Smokerbill]

We probably will have another batch of green beans to pick. We have gotten so many this year. I've been giving them away!

You have a freezer full of beans too, don't you?

BTW, those pickled green beans I made and processed for 15 minutes were still kind of crunchy when I ate them. They tasted ok but I won't make them again. I'd rather have cucumber dills.

I have a pint of experimental green tomato dill pickles I'm going to open and try today. I hope they're good because I have LOTS of green tomatoes I'll need to use somehow.

ETA: Nope, not gonna make pickled green tomatoes again either. Mushy, bitter and just wrong. I don't think I'll be able to eat any more of them, and that's saying something coming from me because I hate to waste anything.

 

[ValerieJ]

I do have a lot of beans in the freezer. I did make the pickled beans without the sugar and they were better, but just not my cup of tea. I'd rather just pickle a cucumber.

 

[Smokerbill]

Got all the beans picked and the vines are being worked on by the chickens now. I found a few big mature pods that I'll have to shell, and got a lot of teeny tiny haricot verts.

 

[rosemarythyme]

I have a freezer full of wax and green beans from the summer. Was just hoping to get another round of fresh green beans as hubby doesn't like the frozen ones, though they work fine in soups and stews and casseroles. I always anticipate making a lot of hotdish in the winter thanks to our Minnesotan in laws.

 

[Smokerbill]

I have a freezer full of wax and green beans from the summer. Was just hoping to get another round of fresh green beans as hubby doesn't like the frozen ones, though they work fine in soups and stews and casseroles. I always anticipate making a lot of hotdish in the winter thanks to our Minnesotan in laws.

Hotdish???

 

[rosemarythyme]

Hotdish???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotdish Never heard about it until my in-laws moved to the Midwest, but now we make it too.

 

[ValerieJ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotdish Never heard about it until my in-laws moved to the Midwest, but now we make it too.

Based on my hubby's recollection, this is what my MIL did often. It's how they use leftovers in Wisconsin and Illinois. I had never heard of it either until he and I talked about it. I've not tried it, but I can see how it would be an easy way to make a quick casserole.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Got all the beans picked and the vines are being worked on by the chickens now. I found a few big mature pods that I'll have to shell, and got a lot of teeny tiny haricot verts.

Hey ever heard of fried green tomato they are great the kid does not eat tomato but do fried one he is all over it.

 

[pennyJo1960]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotdish Never heard about it until my in-laws moved to the Midwest, but now we make it too.

That is one that I did not learn till I was about 12 when Dad taught me how to make it.

 

[PopoMyers]

Hey ever heard of fried green tomato they are great the kid does not eat tomato but do fried one he is all over it.

It's a southern thing. We love them, and pick a couple early in the season just for those. Now I'll make green tomato relish with the rest of the crop I picked. Finished picking the shelling beans, some of the vines I hung under shelter to finish drying out. I think I may leave the cylindra beets and one golden beet for seeds. A volunteer turnip greens plant came up. Have not planted any turnip relatives in years. Powdery mildew has invaded, nonetheless.

I am now free of the boot, but am quarantined with the flu. Boo hoo.

The 6 new pullets are integrating just fine. Do you think it's too early for my 15 week olds to start eating layer pellets? DH mixed all purpose feed in today for all the girls.