What to do with all those delicious veggies? One way to use veggies is to make soup. They’re hundreds of different kinds of soup you could make. Now I don’t cook (I can, but don’t enjoy it) so my personal recipe for veggie soup might seem a little strange. I fill a pot of water…
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Deep Fried Garden Vegetables
You can basically deep fry any vegetables. Put a little bit of batter on them and throw them in a fryer. Frying stuff is so much safer than in by gone years as you can get fryers that you can plug in and you don’t have to heat up oil on the stove, you still…
Zucchini and Summer Squash
Zucchini plants like to give and give and give………. Thankfully shredding zucchini is easy (if you have a machine to help you) and freezing it in bags is quite easy. In winter you can make: bread, cakes, muffins, and more with the zucchini. Another way to use up zucchini is to make zoodles. Spiralizers for…
I don’t Cook!!
Really, I don’t cook and no I’m not starving and yes I do know how to cook. So than the question is why don’t I cook? Cooking for one is not fun and having 5 cats makes cooking difficult. So what do you eat? In summer time I love Greek salad, nuked potatoes, eating raw…
Radishes and Rutabaga
I grow very few radishes and no rutabaga. The reason I grow radishes is to mark my carrot rows. Carrots grow incredibly slow and radishes grow incredibly fast so it shows me where my row is. I found radishes to be spicy, I’m not a fan of overly spicy or heat. All Recipes apparently has…
Is that a Potato?
I grow many different types of potatoes. To grow potatoes one needs seed potatoes which can be bought at big box stores, greenhouses, or in Canada Eagle Seed Potatoes. Norlad: Early red skinned, white on the inside potatoes. Yukon Gold: Yellow skin and flesh. Russet: starchy, netted brown skin, and white on the inside. Russian Blue:…
Parsnips, Peas, and Peppers
I love growing hot peppers, but I don’t like eating hot peppers! The hottest pepper is the Carolina Reaper at 1.5-2.2 million scoville units. Pepper spray has 5.3 million scoville units. When looking at the scoville scale you’ll find that peppers tend to vary in their heat units. My theory is because of the ripeness…
Scape? What’s a Scape?
It’s the start of garlic season in Manitoba and there’s tons of questions on Facebook about what garlic scapes are. This kind of scape is not a scape goat, this scape is delicious in many different ways. How to use scapes? Pesto, Relish , in stir fries, Pickled Scapes (this recipes is for beans, so…
Kohlrabi: The Alien Veggie
The veggie from space aka the alien veggie! kohl·ra·bi | \ kōl-ˈrä-bē (Call rah bee). Its unique name is derived from the German word for cabbage (kohl) and turnip (rabi). I love this veggie, it’s cool looking and tastes good. One way to eat it is like an apple. The peel is not edible so you need to…
Rhubarb Juice
RHUBARB JUICE 10 cups water8 large stalks of rhubarb8 springs mint1/2 cup sugar Cut rhubarb in pieces & bring water to a boil. Simmer for 1 hour. Turn off heat and immediately add mint & sugar. Stir and let sit for another 1/2 hour. Strain into jars and chill. Rhubarb Punch 4 cups sliced rhubarb 2…
Pumpkinist Lora 