What did you do in the garden today?

[IamRainey]

if you want to give canning it a try, check out this link: https://www.thespruceeats.com/ratatouille-recipe-with-canning-instructions-1327484. Happy cooking!

Perfect! Thanks so much!!!

I do get your caution that the preserving process (pressure?) may mess up the "freshness" factor. But I'll give it a try once. ...IF I get any actual tomatoes, that is.

Anyway, I'll be grateful to you to have the resource of knowing how at whatever time in the future I get to do the experiment. Thanks!

 

[IamRainey]

Ripe tomatoes on homemade sourdough! Heaven!!!

 

[Wee Farmer Sarah]

Perfect! Thanks so much!!!

I do get your caution that the preserving process (pressure?) may mess up the "freshness" factor. But I'll give it a try once. ...IF I get any actual tomatoes, that is.

Anyway, I'll be grateful to you to have the resource of knowing how at whatever time in the future I get to do the experiment. Thanks!

If you don’t like that recipe, just google it. When I googled it quite a few recipes came up. So again, happy cooking!

 

[pennyJo1960]

Good luck with your starter Penny. I’ve managed to keep mine alive for 7 years now.

had one from a member but not sure it quit rising on me bought some unbleached flour and plain yogurt just had the thought I may try a bit of buttermilk and yogurt in the old one refresh it possibly ? how do you all process tomato please I have a few dozen little ones bought early girl these seem even smaller not sweet 100 quite but can I freeze them whole for later use ? also out there I had bought like 3 pkgs of brussle spouts started
they all survived so been weeding them out but googled the leaves gave stems to the chickens and lower leaves left young for us going to do cabbage rolls tonight and garlic bread Son does not like tomato

 

[IamRainey]

If you don’t like that recipe, just google it. When I googled it quite a few recipes came up. So again, happy cooking!

Well, actually I have my own recipe that I've worked on since I first had ratatouille back in the early 70s. It's been through any number of evolutions until I got what we like best. That's the flavor and texture I'd like to keep.

I have a feeling it's quite different from what you've had as mine isn't really soup-like at all. More of the Julia Child style of cook everything separately then combine them. And I salt my zucchini and eggplant like crazy to drain off their liquid so they'll brown first and stay not firm but certainly fully intact.

But that Spruce Eats recipe looks similar and I'll see if I can use that preserving process to can mine when I get enough tomatoes AND a pressure canner. Thanks again! Can't thank you enough.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Well gave a bit of of buttermilk and unbleached flour then added back 1/2 of the 1 cup I removed before and it is bubbling great

 

[WthrLady]

I know @WthrLady makes and cans soups, however with her busy lifestyle it likely helps her out immensely. I can't imagine trying to do all the work she does on her ranch and spending an hour or more cooking dinner every night.

Yup, I pressure can soups. But I do it in the winter when I make a large batch and I can the leftovers so they don't take up room in the fridge and so that my DS at college can have home cooking and not worry about it. I cook large farm meals, and I prep as I go through the day. Usually making dinner takes me about 45 minutes. Everything is from scratch. It's just the way I roll here. All of my menus work around my schedule. I have short timed meals and long time meals and can mix or match depending on what has popped up during the day, and what needs done at dinner and what stupid little thing keeps me working until dinner prep time.

Tonight I was just too stinking exhausted to do anything! So for the 1st time in 9 months we drove to eat pizza in the village. MAN that tasted good. I was looking forward to a stroll through the garden and then a shower and an evening off. When I made it to the field.....I saw calves. IN THE ORCHARD! A: calves should never be IN the orchard B: I DON"T HAVE COWS!

LOL. So much for my evening. I spent dusk and into the dark chasing loose bull calves and mending a barbed wire fence. So I guess I earned my pizza. So much for an evening off.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I am sorry there but happy it was not me hope the pizza made up for it

 

[WthrLady]

Tomorrow I am helping a friend who owns a flower business, harvest so that she can get them to market on Sunday. She usually has 5 or six people help her, but everyone is gone now that kids are back in school. So I'll get up earlier and do my chores and go to her place for a couple of hours and help harvest. Then I'll come back here and get back to work here.

The garden needs walked through (see above), the alpacas need sprayed and their toe nails trimmed, stalls need mucked. The hens will want (read demand to be let out). I need to finish painting my fjord horse so I can built the base and then seal it on saturday. I'm going to skip the state fair this year, but will go to the farm market on Saturday.

I have a ton of baking to do as I am behind with this weeks bread. This weekend I start the grand decluttering of the whole house while we dodge storms. Then monday I'll mow, and HOPEFULLY the hay guy will come next week so we can get this hay in.

TIRED yet?

All this and I am trying to get weaving finished and my etsy shop up and running ! HA!

 

[WthrLady]

I am sorry there but happy it was not me hope the pizza made up for it

Ya, a crazed woman yelling and swearing at bulls is a sight for sure, especially in yellow chicken print garden shoes. (quickly swapped for boots and leather gloves.)

OMG I forgot the bees. I need to treat the bees for mites tomorrow and check the hive. I KNEW I was missing something.