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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #270 - Jan 7^th, 2014 at 9:25pm

St George of the Garden wrote on Jan 7^th, 2014 at 7:04pm:

Yeah, it is sad. In my 66 years I have eaten two Macca burger imitations—once to try them, next, many years ago, I was working real late and Maccas was the only place open. they gave me some free onion rings (they were about to close too) but even those had little taste.

But I make my own pasta and tomato sauce, my own jams and jellies etc and have built up quite a library which I will leave to whoever of my nieces and nephews or their offspring might make best use of it. Getting hard to buy stuff for preserving tho. I also brew my own beer, mostly ales which I love. Have my offset smoker—a hot smoker, cooks food and flavors it with smoke. Will think about making a cold smoker some time.

Going to get into fermented foods like gherkins, sauerkraut, sourdough. Then cheese/yoghurt then will consider fermented meat like salami.

Good thing is—learning and trying all this stuff out—keeps the stuff behind my eyes from turning to noughat!

good on you .. I wish I had the time to try them myself

(or maybe its because I can be a little lazy when I want to be Wink

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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #271 - Jan 8^th, 2014 at 6:43am I am retired and enjoying that (would rather still be working 6 days a week in my home brew shop) and do the growing and preserving etc to keep the old brain active.
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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #272 - Jan 8^th, 2014 at 10:55am

Five 500ml jars of whole peeled tomatoes in the waterbath! To turn into lovely spicy salsa when the habanero chilies can be harvested! Since these weren’t cooked, unlike with sauce, the jars will be in the waterbath for 60 minutes.

Canning (bottling in UK speak which I don’t like—I bottle my ales, meads and wines) is pretty safe if you take note of a few cautions:

1. Only fruit has enough acidity to make it safe to bottle (veges can be pickled or canned under pressure at very high temperatures) I add 1/2 tsp citric acid to 500ml jars when canning tomatoes.

2. The water level in the canning bath should be 3cm above the lid of the tallest jar. Water must be simmering—190°F/88°C.

Been canning for some years—never got sick from any of my preserves.

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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #273 - Jan 15^th, 2014 at 2:54pm Over two dozen jars passata and am about to can a batch of strawberry and lemon conserve using mostly my own strawberries. Bit of a bother doing this in the heatwave but I persevere.
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #274 - Jan 15^th, 2014 at 3:09pm I'm going to make a stir fry with minced pork and tofu tonight. I don't think soya beans have featured in this thread yet.....
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Life_goes_on Gold Member Offline Posts: 4772 400kms south of Yobsville, Qld Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #275 - Jan 15^th, 2014 at 4:10pm Freeze the tofu, then defrost it. The stuff firms right up. It's amazing... magical even.
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #276 - Jan 15^th, 2014 at 4:16pm The tofu I have is the firm one, so it will be OK as is, I might try that next time I use one of the softer varieties though. I'll be stir frying the pork mince first, then I'll add garlic, chillies and onion, then soy sauce, bean paste, wine, stock and spring onions.
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #277 - Jan 16^th, 2014 at 9:27pm I wasn't quite so adventurous today. For tonight's dinner I made a frittata and as side dishes, pan fried mushrooms and onion, and a lettuce and tomato salad.
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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #278 - Jan 17^th, 2014 at 3:29pm For an unadventurous meal that sounds very tempting! I just cooked an omelette last night and used up the bit of pancetta I had left, with a bit of a salad. Been too hot for too many days and nights this week in Adelaide to want to cook and eat!
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #279 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 12:39pm I'll be cutting some of the rainbow chard that I'm growing in the backyard for tonight's dinner. The plants are still a bit small, but the leaves are big enough to use now. The rest of the lettuce should be ready by next week - I've already used two of them.
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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #280 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 12:43pm LOVE chard, generous amount of fresh nutmeg grated on to it, hmmmm. Versatile too, can make spinach gnocchi, canneloni and ravioli etc
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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #281 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 12:51pm

Given that the leaves are fairly small at the moment, I was thinking of using them in a salad, maybe with some tomatoes. Once the plants are a bit older, I'll probably cook them one way or another.

Another week or two and I should have some capsicums, tomatoes and maybe some eggplants. I don't know what sort of tomatoes to expect - it's just a seedling I found growing in the garden when I was doing some weeding a few weeks ago....

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St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #282 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 12:53pm My tomatoes have been and gone, peppers will be a while yet—heat wave set just about every vege back
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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #283 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 1:00pm

St George of the Garden wrote on Jan 20^th, 2014 at 12:53pm:

heat wave set just about every vege back Sad

The heat killed off all my beetroot (they had just germinated the week before) and I lost a few carrots, but the rest survived, although I had to use two of the lettuce a bit earlier than I had planned, as they were going to go to seed.

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FriYAY Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 7395	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #284 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 2:21pm Mum (lives by her-self) had chard plants for just over 10 years. She’d just keep picking the outside leaves and they just kept growing and growing.
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