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Fall Garden seeds have arrived

Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 11:25 pm

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I have been solarizing parts of the garden for a week or so. I know it is not long enough to do much good but some is better then none. I was doing this to help prep for the fall garden.

I just got my seed order from Territorial seed.

I got:
Golden and Chioggia beets
Purple haze carrots
Lettuce: Tom Thumb, Winter density, Little Leprechaun, Valmaine, Italienisher organic & Capistrano
Magic Lantern Pumpkins
Red meat Radishs
Space Spinach

I also received their winter catalog to plan what greens and garlic i will grow this winter.

Seeya,

Uncle Jabba

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Vacuum packed Wax Beans

Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Tue Jul 10, 2007 9:43 pm

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I just vacuum packed three one-pound packages of Yellow Wax Beans. I borrowed a FoodSaver Vacuum machine from my cousin and I just love it.

I prepped the beans by first par boiling for 1 minute then into an ice bath and then draining and freezing them on a cookie sheet. This then gave me Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) beans. I believe they have you do this so the vacuum does not crush the food. After that you just put them into the vacuum bags and the machine draws the air out and heat-seals the bag closed.

This was so much easier then the process that I went through to can green beans with my pressure cooker. And after canning like 12 quarts of green beans we did not even like them, they were too much like mushy tin can beans from the store. I really feel that this will give us beans that we will enjoy eating this winter.

Seeya,

Uncle Jabba


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Yellow wax beans...Deep Fried

Category: My Front Yard Garden | Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 12:17 pm

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Just a quick note to say I picked another 1 3/4 pounds of Yellow wax beans last night and we fried them. We took Tempura batter and fried the beans. That was a yummy dinner they were great. We had had Green Beans cooked like this a few years ago at a restaurant and thought we would give it a try.

I'm prepping today for a fourth of July party. I am getting ready to rub down 4 slabs of spare ribs that will go in the smoker first thing tomorrow morning.

Have a great 4th of July.

Seeya,

Uncle Jabba

PS
In response to Daff:

All that can find me are welcome to have some ribs. and if you can get here tonight I just put this on the smoker for dinner






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