Gardening Gardening

MikeInMa I have a recipe for a jellied cucumber salad. Main ingredients are lime Jello, grated cucumber, cottage cheese, green onions and a touch of mayo. I can post it if you want it.

 

Sounds good!

 

MikeInMa Here it is:

1 pk lime Jello
3/4 c boiling water
1 1/2 c cottage cheese
1 c grated cucumber
1/2 c mayo
green onions chopped up to taste

Dissolve the Jello in the boiling water and set aside until it starts to thicken.
Grate the cucumbers and mix in the cottage cheese, mayo, green onions.
When the Jello starts to set, mix everything together and put in the fridge.
I usually don't measure the cucumber so I probably put in more than that.
If it doesn't want to set because you added too much cucumber, dissolve a Knox gelatin package in 1/4 c of boiling water, cool it a bit and mix it in.

If you try it, let me know how it went. We come from an era where jellied salads of some sort were always served at family gatherings.

 

Tomatoes are coming in good! (From our CT garden)



Brought some up north and had a few with breakfast this morning:

 

You can't beat homemade tomato sauce!

We canned 146 jars over the past week. We do this as a family every year. I buy those tomatoes from local farms. One tip I can pass along to you is to fill your jars up to about 1/4" of the top of the jars. Supposedly less air space leaves less chance of spoilage.

 

Salsa

 

Late summer harvest today. Tomatoes are about done. White sweet potatoes are going nuts.

 

The hot peppers are coming on strong now. A bunch of jalapeño X Thai hot hybrids, ghost X Aji Charapita hybrids, and a couple regular jalapeños.
I’ll be running the dehydrator tomorrow.

 

Do you have to run it outside or in the garage? I would think the air coming off the peppers could be potent.

 

Oh it's a two day outdoor job all the way It's a slightly sweet but pungent odor wafting from the dehydrator in all directions.

 

Todays haul...

 

There is still a lot of good food being harvested from our gardens at this late date in September.

 

What a lot of work you all have put into the gardens! so nice to see photos of the harvests.

 

Pulled some more veg from the garden today. Sweet potatoes are next.

 

Pulled everything from the garden this past weekend. Darn rodents burrowed under my grass clippings for the first time. Had a day with the sweet potatoes. Still got a bunch though.

 

Do you cure your sweet potatoes? I was always told to leave the dirt on sweet potatoes when you dig them then store them in a warm dry place for a couple weeks to cure them. Supposedly it helps build the sugars in them.

 

Nope. We put them in a cool dry dark area of the basement. I still have a few from last years harvest!