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| ThymeForEweFarm |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 03:50:07 AM
It's cool and overcast today. I'm going to make garden soup. I'll pull carrots and a baby turnip or two, cut bok choi and tatsoi, pick cherry tomatoes, patty pan squash and wax beans. The patty pan will be sauteed with onion and garlic and a little chicken before it's added to the soup pot. I'll add fresh chives and oregano, two bay leaves, fresh ground pepper and sea salt.
It's also bread weather. I'll make oatmeal bread or rolls to go with the soup. I love cool days like this.
Robin
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| realme52 |
Posted - Aug 26 2005 : 10:01:45 AM
I wanted to add something to the "tatsoi" thing: I have never had it, but imagine it simmilar to some asian green we tried for the first time this past spring: it's called "Mibuna" (aka. Mitsuna). It looks a little bit like mustard greens when it first comes out, but has smoother leaves. It can be cut really early or you can let it grow and it forms "heads". I used it for just about anything: salad, soups, stews, stewed with onions, stir-fryed....whatever you can imagine. It grows fast and even in our Texas heat it keeps going when everything else is surrendering to the sun! I will grow it each season now. The only caveat: it's easy to overcook it and then becomes somewhat unatractive, so add it late to dishes.
From this hour on I ordain myself loss'd of limits and immaginary lines. Walt Whitman |
| Julia |
Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 7:37:46 PM
I was just given a huge cabbage. I plan on making some cabbage patch soup for me and my Mom this week-end when she comes to visit. MMMMM
"The gloom of the world is but a shadow; behind it, yet within our reach is joy. Take joy!" Fr.Giovanni |
| quiltedess |
Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 08:00:31 AM
You all are making me drool on my keyboard!!
Klara, I think the cucumbers could very well turn bitter from the heat; I love gazpacho so much that I would maybe try making it without the cucumbers?
Nancy |
| lareyna |
Posted - Aug 25 2005 : 07:52:41 AM
Ellen, I posted the chowder recipe in across the fence/recipes,,,it is so good |
| ThymeForEweFarm |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 6:27:23 PM
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Originally posted by Kim
Ok, what is tatsoi???
Tatsoi is an Asian green. I started growing it on the recommendation of a friend and will always grow it now. It's good in soups, salads, stir fries and wraps.
quote:
Originally posted by ivmeer
That sounds delightful, Robin. Do you make your own soup stocks? I have frozen chicken and vegetable broth in my freezer now.
Definitely. I make almost everything from scratch. I buy things like pasta from the store but not much else when it comes to cooking.
Robin
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| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 6:16:37 PM
My Granny used to say if you peeled the cuke from the flower back to you it would take away the burp/bitter stuff. In my experiments Granny, may she rest in peace, I love you too, was voodoo peeling.Anytime we get the bitter end is when we put em in stress.Been dry? |
| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 5:56:08 PM
I want the chowder recipe!
I could taste the bacon on my beans! Do you use veg stock? Add me some cornbread for a pusher and I'm cleaning that bowl out! |
| therusticcottage |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 5:44:39 PM
We're supposed to have rain and a high of 65 on Sunday -- that may be a very good soup day!
"If you are lucky enough to have a garden, you are lucky enough!" |
| Whimsy_girl |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 5:02:20 PM
It was a cooler night last night so I did a lasagnia, and then I also cut up and boiled a bumch of apple chunks and cinnamon to make apple pie filling, then I also mixed a little of it with some vanilla yogurt to make some creamy apple sauce type baby food.
you can be oh so smart, or you can be oh so positive. I wasted a lot of time being smart I prefer being positive. |
| Susie Q |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 3:27:36 PM
We finally had a few cool days too last week. I made a vegetable beef soup and bought a sesame seed italian loaf from Wild Oats, an organic supermarket. It was so good. I think I could eat soup everyday and never tire of it. |
| Kim |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 10:47:42 AM
Ok, what is tatsoi???
farmgirl@heart
Be at peace with yourself and the rest will follow |
| ivmeer |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 09:59:06 AM
That sounds delightful, Robin. Do you make your own soup stocks? I have frozen chicken and vegetable broth in my freezer now. |
| bramble |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 06:54:54 AM
Klara- That sounds delicious! I never thought of green bean soup but now you've got me itching to make it! Sounds like my guys (who are not green bean fans) might just find them palatable after all, thanks!
Larenya- Please post your recipe ( got to across the fence and you will find "Recipes We Love to Share) We LOVE recipes! Thanks to you too!
with a happy heart |
| lareyna |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 06:49:03 AM
My family thinks I make the best Clam Chowder in the world and I live near the ocean so that's saying something, if anybody is interested I will post my recipe, it's a very easy one!! |
| realme52 |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 06:41:49 AM
Oh, how I envy you for the cool temperatures (now I do, but not in winter! We still have heat indeces here, up in the three digits!
The only "soup" that would go for us at this time would be Gazpacho. But we don't have cucumbers!
Have you ever heard of excessive heat turning cucumbers bitter? I figured that could be what happened to ours. They were fine, grew well, got everything the bunches before them got, and when I picked them they were so bitter through and through that you couldn't get the taste out of your mouth for hours!
They only thing different that I could think of was the heat, very early and all the time, not even really cooling off at night! Have you had experience with that? Or does anyone know other reasons why cucumbers turn bitter? (it was, by the way three different species!)
So, no Gazpacho for me, either.... When it gets cooler, I like to make what I call "Slivered French Bean Soup". I take fresh green beans, sliver them. Then fry a little cubed Canadian Bacon and diced onions, add the beans, stir fry for a while, then add stock and lots of herbs (whatever I have, but preferably majoram, oregano, borage), and, if I want to make it a whole meal, add cubed potatoes and cook it until it is the tenderness I like. I "bind" it with a little flour mixed into a few tablespoons of sour cream. Top it with grated cheese if I have a small chunk left over. Delicious! And it freezes excellently, so I always have a stack of single portions in the freezer for the times when the craving hits!
From this hour on I ordain myself loss'd of limits and immaginary lines. Walt Whitman |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 05:56:08 AM
I love turnip tops in soup!! I wish I had planted turnips this year! Beets too...my favs!
Gumbo sounds good too!!
Jenny in Utah
The best things in life arn't things |
| ByHzGrace |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 04:25:21 AM
ever used the turnip tops for your greens? i make gumbo z'herbes with them. |
| bramble |
Posted - Aug 24 2005 : 04:21:19 AM
I love those cool days after it's been so blasted hot!Your soup sounds good, do you make it with a chicken stock? One of my first fall soups is always Potato Leek, quickly folllowed by Garden Veggie and the no fail soccer night Crock Pot Beef Stew. I like to make a nice crusty loaf of Cuban bread to eat with the stew,if I've got time.
Fall is my favorite season and I love everything about it, even ALL the soccer!
with a happy heart |
