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Senoritas!

Eloine

Time to start chopping and frying!

This is a harvest of señorita jalepenos. They are the mildest kind of jalepeno there is. I like them because you can eat them straight without them being too hot. Because they are not so hot you can actually taste the jalepeno flavor. It’s hard to taste it when you are over powered by the heat as with the more popular in store variety.

I will chop all these up and they will  be fried in a pan with some butter and then stored in the freezer for later use in a variety of dishes.

Recipe

My very talented co-worker who decided to leave us and go on to more great and wonderful things left me a recipe the other day I thought I would share. I’ll miss you Amanda!

  • Dice & saute your red peppers
  • add diced onions & caramelize them if you like
  • Add: honey, fresh chopped & diced garlic, fresh thyme, cinnamon & ground clove (all to taste)
  • Serve as a sauce for chicken or pork – could also use as a glaze for a pork roast.

Scrumptious meal from some that I harvested!

Eloine

Today I harvested:

  • Several large squash
  • grocery bag of tomatoes
  • handful of beets
  • arm load of swiss chard
  • chocolate mint and watercress for a salad

From the tomatoes and the squash my mother made the following recipe that is absolutely scrumptious!

Ingredients:

  • Coarsely chopped squash
  • steamed, skinned and stewed tomatoes
  • caramelized onions
  • crushed freeze dried green pepper
  • fried senorita jalepeños
  • salt and some butter

(all cooked in a frying pan)

  • lean top round ground pork

Meat is cooked separately from the squash and then put together in a large frying pan along with the rest of the ingredients and stirred. The tomatoes and caramelized onions were from a previous harvest that was made in a large pot and stored in the freezer for meals like this that you can just get out and pour in the pan for a quick meal.

Harvested

Eloine

harvestPicture of my little harvest today. Then I sprayed all the veggie garden with VF-11.

  • Early Girl and Better Boy tomatos
  • One Summer squash
  • 2 cucumbers that are not quite growing right
  • basil
  • swiss chard
  • bell peppers

and here is a little later where the squash
and peppers were stir fried :))
stirfry

Watercress salad

Eloine
watercress salad
watercress salad

The watercress looked ready to harvest today and I had a few ripe tomatoes and some garlic so I made the most scrumptious salad today!

  • 2 chopped avocados
  • 1 whole lime for the juice
  • 2 chopped tomatoes
  • Hand full of finely shopped watercress
  • Hand full of finely chopped chocolate mint
  • 1 whole garlic clove (finally chopped)
  • 2 pinches of salt
  • Oak leaf lettuce

Mix it all up and server over a bed of oak leaf lettuce. We added some course ground meat and some finely shredded cheese over the top. Except for the avocado and the lime which aren’t ripe yet everything else was from the garden. Yummy!

UPDATE: I made this again only this time I added a can of sweet corn. Mmmm it was soooo yummy!