While finishing up dinner tonight, Glenn pointed out that just about everything in the soup pot was something that we had harvested. With the exception of one Yukon gold potato, the carrots, onions, purple potatoes, tomatoes and moose meat were either from our garden or from Glenn's recent hunt. Okay, the salt and spices were from the cupboard because we aren't that hardcore (yet?).
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| Moose stew - by all accounts, it was delicious! My food photography on the other hand.... |
This year, we had a lot of gardening ventures happening. Besides our shared plot at the community garden, we also carved out more space in our backyard for a raised bed. We had pots of peppers and tomatoes, too. The community garden was one of the best ones we've had. We had more cucumbers than we could handle, spaghetti squash, potatoes, beans, peppers, peas and tomatoes. Oh and beets! At home, we grew pumpkins, more cucumbers, beets, onions, carrots, two cabbages and one magnificent kohlrabi. Our summer started off extra chilly but we had good moisture and heat as the summer wore on. We finally hard our first frost last week, so the season is officially done.
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| Pie pumpkins - I think they are called Connecticut field pumpkins? They went crazy in our small spot. Any that grew outside of the fence became victims of our curious chickens. |
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| I didn't thin the carrots and so I ended up with a bowl of pinky-sized carrots. They are really sweet and crunchy but have a slightly-disturbing finger vibe. |
I should clarify that while the gardening season is done outside, inside the house, we are still working away. Vicky and I picked these tomatoes (and more!) a few days before the frost and brought them in to try to ripen. Vicky has at least half this much at her house. These are more tomatoes than we've ever grown but we needed just a few more weeks to get them ripe. I checked on mine today and some are starting to ripen but I'm also looking at recipes for green tomato pickles. Yum?
