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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forumsforgot to add about the carrots and cauliflower...
As I was smoothing out the last tater hill I could see the tops of my carrots peeking through. So I decided to harvest a bunch. They are beeeauuuutiful! A little disappointing because they were supposed to be red...maybe their insides will be. But bright, bright orange and my first ever carrots!
Then I started weeding around for the first time in a few weeks and noticed my red bull beets -- which have beautiful deep red leaves that I have picked a little at a time to add to salads -- are getting huge!
And that my orange cauliflower is coming in, and with better color than last year! Deeper, yellow-orange color
Still waiting for the purple cauli to make an appearance!
Harvest time is SO MUCH FUN!
Tonight I plan to have roasted tiny red taters, carrots and eggplant from my garden. The only "outsider" will be the onions -- I'm still a fail with onions. Maybe next year!
Arkansas Granny
(31,534 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)I'll put the mead in the fridge -- it's extra-good chilled!
Oh, I forgot the other outside! Roasted mushrooms. Not the hallucigenic kind, sorry to say...
marzipanni
(6,011 posts)I want to try it. Some recipes I've found on the internet have spicy yogurt coating a whole head of cauliflower, but people who've tried it say it takes a long time to get tender. I'd steam it a few minutes first, or do a recipe using flowerets.
We've been eating stuff from our garden, too. My DH planted green beans, Roma (made spaghetti sauce so far) and Brandywine tomatoes, three zucchini plants (next year we'll start some and give all but one away! ) Cucumbers, which we eat as Japanese salad with slightly sweetened rice vinegar and toasted sesame seeds. I planted the carrot seeds- they're pretty good but next year I'm going to look for Nanté carrot seeds because I've had really sweet Nanté carrots.
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)the cauliflower wasn't as sweet as I would have liked. Don't know if it was the cooking style or the seasonings that didn't bring out its flavor... I'm going to try again this year, seasoned differently.
My tomatoes are heirlooms. I've been growing Moscovitch for several years -- big, juicy and yummy. This year Johnny's offered an heirloom cherry, so I gave that one a shot. They are coming in beautifully -- just ate my fist last week! Juicy and yummy again. Some'll be in my dinner roast...
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)Mom's treat!
(I actually save the tops even from store bought for her. She also got the greens when I accidentally harvested a couple babies while weeding. The carnage cured me of weeding