Last summer Ken tried something new – he chopped and froze bell peppers. Peppers do not require the blanching that most vegetable do. Previously we dried pepper slices in the dehydrator, and I often used them in things like chili and stews that I cooked for a long, low temperature on the wood cook stove. Frozen peppers do not need to be re hydrated, and can be placed in a dish just before serving to …
Greetings from the Garden! This week’s CSA box has tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, carrots, onions, garlic, eggplant, cabbage, greens, basil, parsley, and cilantro Field Notes. Ken has been harvesting! And he is planting fall crops as well. He has been mulching and composting and preparing the soil where the mobile tunnel will move for late fall and winter. From the Kitchen. I am moving into preserving mode. Last week I made jams and froze ripe …
Ken loves stone fruit like peaches, apricots, cherries, nectarines. They are always on the Environmental Working Groups “Dirty Dozen” list for chemical pesticide residues, so we avoid any thing that is not organically grown. this year while visiting some friends I was able to get a box of organic peaches. And our host who knows Ken loves peaches offered a second box. I came home and set them on the cook stove to watch for …
