Farm share, week 18
Oct. 20th, 2004 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidWe now distract you from the frustrations of the game with a list of very calm vegetables. Oh, and fruits.
With all the apple inundation, I've been making applesauce. First it was apple-pear sauce, the remains of which were canned (a pint and two minis). Last night it was cran-rhubarb applesauce, which I think is quite excellent (four pints canned). And tonight, using Bbbsg's suggestion, it was gingered applesauce (three pints in the canner). It starts appley, and ends with the heat. Yum. There's still enough apples for another batch, and cinnamon's sounding far too run of the mill now. Other ideas?
- a half peck of apples, many of them Delicious (no longer my favorite variety)
- a bunch of kale
- a large leek
- four largish carrots (a pound?)
- five red onions
- a mini-pumpkin
- a carnival squash
- two beets
- about ten potatoes (a couple of pounds)
- an acorn squash
With all the apple inundation, I've been making applesauce. First it was apple-pear sauce, the remains of which were canned (a pint and two minis). Last night it was cran-rhubarb applesauce, which I think is quite excellent (four pints canned). And tonight, using Bbbsg's suggestion, it was gingered applesauce (three pints in the canner). It starts appley, and ends with the heat. Yum. There's still enough apples for another batch, and cinnamon's sounding far too run of the mill now. Other ideas?
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Date: 2004-10-20 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-20 08:31 pm (UTC)Would apple work with some sort of chili or pepper? Maybe an apple-Serrano combination? I suppose that's the sort of thing that could either be really interesting or really disgusting.
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Date: 2004-10-20 08:45 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-10-21 06:20 am (UTC)apple theory
Date: 2004-10-21 07:38 am (UTC)Re: apple theory
Date: 2004-10-21 08:27 am (UTC)Re: apple theory
Date: 2004-10-21 08:51 am (UTC)Side question: I wonder why there are so many kinds of apples (with such interesting names; I wish there were a site with lists of them), but not, say, peaches or pears?
*whoever wrote the page decided that 'bared' was the correct past participle of 'bear'. Ugh.
Re: apple theory
Date: 2004-10-21 08:56 am (UTC)for "apple variety list"
And this is one of the top hits for "peach variety list"
http://www.ces.uga.edu/pubcd/c741-w.html#Variety
I also had a brochure here recently on pears. There are varieties of *Everything* it's just that normal stores don't usually carry many, or bother to tell us which ones.
You can pick peaches locally in September. Ee should go next year! Fresh-from-tree peaches are the only ones I'll eat.
Re: apple theory
Date: 2004-10-21 09:05 am (UTC)I know that there are different kinds of pears and peaches, but even with the varieties I've seen, there seems to be practically an order of magnitude more varieties of apples.
I've never been peach-picking. Next year... (as long as the Jewish holidays don't devour the orchard visiting season).
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Date: 2004-10-21 07:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-10-21 07:58 am (UTC)Canning is just my way to try to cope with apple inundation; half a peck of apples is far too many for me to consume in a week.