Australian Politics Forum - Vegetable of the week thread

St George of the Garden Gold Member Offline http://tinyurl.com/n 3o8m2x Posts: 9809 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #285 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 6:16pm Down here the heat does cause them to bolt. But I just keep pulling leaves off and feeding them to the chooks.
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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #286 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 6:57pm

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!

You sound like my husband, George. He loves his smoker and also makes all kinds of pickles and jams - tomato jam is my favourite. He makes a lovely pate too.

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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 #287 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 7:32pm Yeah! Tomato and basil, unreal on cream cheese! Hubby’s smoker a hot smoker like my offset smoker or a cold smoker?
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Re: Vegetable of the week thread
Reply #288 - Jan 20^th, 2014 at 8:49pm

Frances wrote on 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.

Which is exactly what I did. I sliced the chard leaves up into 1cm strips and chopped the stems up as well and added some of those small different coloured tomatoes that they sell in punnets in the supermarkets and dressed it with olive oil, salt and lemon juice. A very colourful and tasty salad.

The other vegetables I used in my dinner were brown onions. I fried some chopped onions in a mix of olive and sunflower oils and added some breadcrumbs and anchovies and a bit of dried chilli, and mixed it up with some spaghetti.

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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 #289 - Jan 21^st, 2014 at 11:31am Anchovies are the one true path to great salads/soups/pizzas and the like.
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White Dove Senior Member Offline Posts: 256	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #290 - Jan 21^st, 2014 at 2:31pm anchovies, yum!
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Jaqs Senior Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 337 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #292 - Jan 21^st, 2014 at 2:42pm My vege for the week is Courgettes! Seems they are taking over my vege garden and I'm giving them away and eating heaps and they just keep coming! Next year I will only put in ONE plant! lol
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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 #293 - Jan 21^st, 2014 at 7:56pm Try pickling them! A good zucchini pickle is to die for!
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Annie Anthrax Gold Member Offline Posts: 7062 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #294 - Jan 24^th, 2014 at 9:39pm St George of the Garden wrote on Jan 20^th, 2014 at 7:32pm: Yeah! Tomato and basil, unreal on cream cheese! Hubby’s smoker a hot smoker like my offset smoker or a cold smoker? It's a hot smoker. Anchovies are yum - my favourite pizza is a Margarita with anchovies, jalapenos and pineapple.
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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 #295 - Jan 25^th, 2014 at 10:00am Feral boar ribs cooked on a hot smoker are out of this world!
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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 #296 - Jan 31^st, 2014 at 3:53pm Bought a pomelo today, from Central Market. Nice and heavy (=lovely and juicy) and smells divine. So a mostly–tropical fruitsalad tonight: pomelo, mango, papaya, dragonfruit, lychees, pineapple plus blueberries, raspberries, passionfruit and some strawberry freezer jam.
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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 #297 - Jan 31^st, 2014 at 11:26pm I used some celeriac for the first time a few days ago and quite liked it. I used it raw by shredding it (using a mandolin, not a grater) and made a dressing with mayonnaise, mustard, lemon juice herbs and pepper. I'll be doing it again some time.
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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 #298 - Feb 1^st, 2014 at 1:31am Celeriac is wonderful! Boil and mash it like potato Grate it into soups to thicken the soups. Use the stems like celery Another vege of the week, and one I will be planting this fall: salsify. I know nothing about it except it is a root crop going way back, look forward to cooking that.
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PZ547 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 9282 Gender:	Re: Vegetable of the week thread Reply #299 - Feb 1^st, 2014 at 8:43pm My vegetable of the week, every week since birth is and probably always will be, potatoes
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