What did you make from your garden today?

[Sally PB]

I use yellow and brown mustard seeds in some and only yellow in others.(like traditional hamburger mustard).

Store bought or do you grow your own mustard? What variety, if you grow it/them?

 

[Birdsonghill]

Store bought or do you grow your own mustard? What variety, if you grow it/them?

I use both. The ease and cheap price from some markets of using bought seeds often trumps me saving large amounts of mustard seeds. I do save mustard seeds from ragged edge, Florida broadleaf, my own cross of giant mustard and sometimes from tatsoi and other mustards for both replanting and making prepared mustards.. I buy most of my yellow mustard seeds from an Indian market because they are reasonably priced, clean and easy.

 

[Sally PB]

I buy most of my yellow mustard seeds from an Indian market because they are reasonably priced, clean and easy.

Where would I look for mustard seed? I'm assuming an Indian market would be a good place to start... if I can find one. Anywhere else?

 

[Sally PB]

Well, goodness, there are 3 in Grand Rapids. One of them is easily on my way home from the chiropractor.

 

[fuzzi]

For supper I ate freshly-picked turnips, carrots, and turnip greens. Yum!

 

[akroberts1085]

Oops. Looks like I missed a potato from last year. Today the weather was decent and I planted red and Yukon Gold potatoes in the green house and in the ground. I also got 3 each red, white and yellow onions and my garlic. I planted some more onions in the sunken garden and mini pumpkins

 

[Sally PB]

I made a big pan of roasted potatoes today. Home grown taters, onions, garlic. The oven helped warm up the house.

 

[Birdsonghill]

I did some smoked pork butt eggrolls with my pak choi, green onions carrots and some bean sprouts. I also made egg drop soup hot and sour style with my eggs, crushed red Joe's long red Italian cayenne, shredded Napa and green onions and some firm tofu. I used a quick Wonton soup base today for the broth with a splash of fish sauce, soy sauce and rice vinegar. A good chicken stock is good for this, instead of the wonton base, with the addition of soy and fish sauces, sliced ginger. I sweetened this recipe and made it spicey hot with cayenne that demands more vinegar twang as well, but make this according to taste and it is good without the cayenne , rice vinegar or sugar and I make it that way often.

 

[Sally PB]

I made a frittata today. The only things from my garden were the onions and garlic. And my chickens made the eggs.

I used swiss chard in the frittata today, and sauteed the cut up stems with the other "hard" vegetables. I added the green leafy part at the very end of the sauteeing, as I would with spinach.

I am so looking forward to my garden this summer! I plan to grow a lot of chard.

 

[Iluveggers]

My garden is done for the season, picked the last Brussels sprouts yesterday and will probably make them tomorrow. A local farm sent an email though, with the weird February thaw we are having, they had lettuce and baby bok choy available to order, so I ordered some of that and some sweet potatoes, parsnips, and cabbage, so that will be a nice, fresh treat this week!