What did you make from your garden today?

[Sequel]

My husband, who wouldn’t touch cabbage when we got married, is now ASKING for what I refer to as cabbage skillet (cabbage, zucchini, carrots, onions, garlic, and ground meat). Today I used ground lamb and added chopped Swiss chard stalks. Besides the chopping, it cooks quickly and only takes one pan.

I love that one skillet dinner! I make some similar ones. When adding rice to it we call it buggeroff because my Aussie friend tasted it and said “Bugger me drunk, that’s better than stroganoff!”

 

[Member 671655]

Canned 19 quarts of pizza sauce

 

[FrannyNZooey]

Canned 19 quarts of pizza sauce

That’s quite a lovely haul! I just did freezer sauce this year. Some early on I seasoned with basil, but the latter batches it was just salt and garlic. Figured I could add spices in depending on the recipe.

Last night I took a first stab a gumbo with our green peppers. It turned out pretty well (didn’t burn the roux!), but I want to experiment with different versions. I saw so many great variations on YouTube!

 

[Nomadicus]

From the garden today we had some Texas Cream 40 peas via the freezer.

 

[Sally PB]

Yesterday, I made some REALLY good lentil soup in the Instant Pot. Home grown/canned: tomatoes, onions, garlic.

Wish I could say the spinach and carrots were, but they weren't.

 

[Nomadicus]

We've been having okra and field peas quite often. Right now the planning has started for next years garden. We should have more time to focus on the garden as all the coops should be finished and the chicken should be doing what chickens need to do.

 

[Smokerbill]

I filled a 2 quart saucepan with rock hard frozen Roma tomatoes, and making stewed tomatoes today. This is the first time I've broken into one of my gallon bags of tomatoes that I froze.

Edited to add:
Like I suspected the freezing broke down the structure, and the tomatoes turned into a sloppy, liquid mess, like a slightly chunky tomato soup. I added garlic and onion powder, salt and pepper, a little chili powder, dry Italian seasoning and a couple teaspoons of sugar. Tastes pretty good!

 

[Sally PB]

We'll be having home grown potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and garlic in the Thanksgiving Day feast next week. I wish I could grow celery, but so far nada out of two attempts. And yeah, I have to buy eggs right now. Maybe the Christmas feast will be different in that regard.

None of those items is expensive to buy, really. Until you compare apples to apples and say, ok, I want organic versions of those. So my cost for these is the onion sets and sweet potato slips I bought. I had the cloves to plant for the garlic, and the seed potatoes.

 

[Nomadicus]

We'll be having home grown potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, and garlic in the Thanksgiving Day feast next week. I wish I could grow celery, but so far nada out of two attempts. And yeah, I have to buy eggs right now. Maybe the Christmas feast will be different in that regard.

None of those items is expensive to buy, really. Until you compare apples to apples and say, ok, I want organic versions of those. So my cost for these is the onion sets and sweet potato slips I bought. I had the cloves to plant for the garlic, and the seed potatoes.

Did you start the celery from good seed for plants to set in your garden? That's how we will be trying it this year. It will be our first attempt to grow celery.

 

[Sally PB]

Did yo start the celery from good seed for plants to set in your garden? That's how we will be trying it this year. It will be our first attempt to grow celery.

I tried to grow from seeds, with little to no luck. I think it was too cool for the seeds to sprout. What srpouted didn't grow.

I may try again. I have a few months to think about it.