What did you make from your garden today?

[NanaK]

I cooked a big pot of beans I dried from last summers garden. I put in some cured ham to season them. Hubby grilled smoked sausage to have on the side. It was yummy comfort food.

 

[Sequel]

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.

Omg! That sounds amazing!

 

[Sequel]

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.

And if you let some go to seed you will have what my neighbor Bernie calls “self propelled” chard.

 

[Sequel]

And if you let some go to seed you will have what my neighbor Bernie calls “self propelled” chard.

I meant to put a On that post! It’s true though, I have it come back every year!

 

[jerryse]

I had an idea that worked out well. I used home canned tomato juice to make spaghetti today. I cooked the noodles in the tomato juice. This absorbed some of the liquid making it sauce. I added my homemade Italian dry herb mix. A little salt and a little sugar. No need to boil juice for hours to make sauce.

 

[Sally PB]

I had an idea that worked out well. I used home canned tomato juice to make spaghetti today. I cooked the noodles in the tomato juice. This absorbed some of the liquid making it sauce. I added my homemade Italian dry herb mix. A little salt and a little sugar. No need to boil juice for hours to make sauce.

I've used a quart of home canned tomatoes to cook rice. Delicious!

 

[NanaK]

I've used a quart of home canned tomatoes to cook rice. Delicious!

I do this too. Home canned tomatoes make it soooo much better than the canned stuff at the store!

 

[Sally PB]

I usually use either bone broth or tomatoes to cook my rice. Lately it's all been bone broth.

 

[fuzzi]

Do eggs count?

 

[Liz Birdlover]

I used some scallions & chives I had frozen in making soup yesterday.

Also, still eating pickled eggs, so delicious!