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Regarding the seeds, I have always heard the seeds taste bitter after freezing. I love my Foley food mill for so many things, Easy to use and clean. Applesauce, tomatoes, persimmons are just some examples.
We had eight days of 95 and one 96 before today. Our low this morning was 60 and at noon it is 61. I hope the heat is gone for this year.
From the 70s, I have Bucket Bread posted here on this site. We love this bread with homemade apple butter.
September 13, 2018 at 11:14 am in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 9, 2018? #13453Thank you all for thinking of us during our tough days.
I agree that KAF comes up with must-have ingredients for their recipes.
September 12, 2018 at 5:25 pm in reply to: What are You Cooking the Week of September 9, 2018? #13440Hello to everyone! This is the second site I go to, just after my email each day. I read here several times a day.
My husband had a bad stroke on July 16, was in hospital four days and moved to rehab since. He'll be there thru October at least. You cannot imagine what all I have been through these many days.
We missed Mike Nolan's birthday on September 4 so Happy Belated Birthday, Mike!
Yes. I usually use 1/2 cup of each.
Two years ago, we fixed a chicken wire pen for tomatoes, peppers and cukes to keep the rabbits out of them. It was 10 x 16 or so and worked very well. But this year we needed to move tomatoes due to diseases in soil so we have tub garden areas.
Husband got a bunch of cattle supplement tubs from the farm store. Farmers brought the empty tubs back so folks could have them to use. He put water bottles in the bottom 1/3 then landscape fabric on top of that and top soil on that. The smaller tubs hold two tomato plants. He got a huge tub that held 56 plastic gallon jugs in the bottom so it holds a lot of plants. He started peppers, okra, and cukes in the big tub and has tomatoes in it. We have an almost ripe tomato already. I started plants in the house to get a head start.
The big tub has a drain plug and he made drain holes in the smaller tubs so they won't get waterlogged.
We don't eat a lot so these tubs and the pen will serve us well.
My husband had his 5 year prostate cancer check up Thursday and tests are fine so we can sigh a bit for another year.
I've been reading about all of your surgeries and am so glad to hear you are doing much better.
This is a good time to bring up this old thread from the BC with gardens giving nice cucumber crops.
In our area, it is always equal parts of apple cider vinegar and sugar over the tomatoes, cucumbers and onions. I sometimes add diced bell peppers, as well. This recipe is in many old, old community cookbooks, many with recipes over 100 years old. That is the same proportions of vinegar/sugar we use for slaw.
Happy Happy Birthday to my old buddy, Kidpizza!! Hoping you get to enjoy your special day to the fullest and many, many happy returns!
Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes! That was very nice of KidPzza to remember me. It was way too hot to do any celebrating. We went from the second coldest April on record way back to 1895 to a May of nearly 90 or above every day.
Your son was the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw the news break this afternoon.
We missed all the local and national news this evening due to nearby tornadoes and half dollar sized hail and lighting that was pretty bad. I unplugged all the stuff I could get to and we rode it out for a long time. It kept coming in waves of more storms but seems to be gone now.
Local news will be on a few minutes so I can learn more about the shooting.
Joan...I always like to read of your cooked turnips. We love them. Mrs Cindy sent me a huge box of turnips a few years ago. She had a neighbor with a huge turnip patch so she sent me the box of them to enjoy.
We are to get snow and freezing rain tonight and tomorrow. Last M-Th, we got over 4 1/4 inches of rain, the week before that we got 2 inches of rain, the first or 2nd of March we got 5 inches of rain one day and yet another 1 inch. And we had some small rain totals in addition to all of that.
We have spent so many days in the 30s when we should have been 60. Lately, the experts predicted 60+ and we got 40.
Every 7-day forecast shows rain every day. Has been like that for weeks. They said we'll be cold and wet for the first 2 weeks of April.
Farmers will be planting late for certain.
Happy Easter to all here who celebrate!
Regarding elderberries, I can relate. I landscaped our three acre yard for the birds and critters as we are avid bird watchers. We are a designated Illinois Acres for Wildlife habitat and I'm certified as a National Wildlife Habitat property.
I bought cut-leafed elderberry plants for the birds and we have several huge heads of the old native elderberries...the birds adore them and strip all the berries in no time. June berries are another much loved planting the birds go nuts over here. I always chuckle and say momma cardinal is incubating the June berries to ripen them sooner. She camps in the bushes days ahead of ripening so she can get them first. They eat them when just a dab of color appears.
American hollies are a huge food source for birds in winter. I planted three trees and they are huge now. Birds won't eat the berries until a hard freeze or two have occurred. These have to be planted in threes for pollination. Even the male tree has a few berries each fall/winter.
For 18 years, we counted birds for Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project Feeder Watch and we had 58 cardinals on many of our winter counts. They look like Christmas ornaments about 4 o'clock each evening when they gather in our fruit and pine/spruce trees for their evening feedings at the feeders. Husband says we have 10-15 pair nesting in summer here. We have 10+ acres of mowed farm field and a 15 acre woods so there is plenty of room for them to nest. We enjoy seeing the parents bring in their new babies to show them the feeders and how to search for foods on their own.
Blueberries have to have bird netting over them here for us to get any of them.
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