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Post by meandtk on Feb 27, 2018 12:27:40 GMT -5
What is your favorite thing to preserve or cook from your garden?
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Post by pepperhead212 on Feb 27, 2018 12:55:50 GMT -5
That would have to be peppers, given the number of those that I dry, and freeze, and there is rarely a day that goes by that I don't use them in something, unless I'm eating leftovers with them. After that, garlic. Tomatoes and eggplants are next, but well behind peppers and garlic.
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Post by spike on Feb 27, 2018 13:16:48 GMT -5
Out in the lead are Pepper and onions. Closely followed by garlic, beans and corn. Then tomatoes. Plus most of what I grow I can for winter or we eat as it grows.
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Post by meandtk on Feb 27, 2018 13:22:46 GMT -5
We are relatively simple. Tomatoes go into salsa, potatoes and beans are canned, and corn is frozen.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Feb 27, 2018 13:23:08 GMT -5
Cowpeas, Beans, Okra and Squash.
I like the first 3 just about anyway they are cooked.
My squash I liked sliced thin and fried like Tader Chips.
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Post by octave1 on Feb 27, 2018 14:00:51 GMT -5
Hands down tomatoes. I can some and freeze some. If we have too many I also dry them. Then some herbs like basil.
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Post by ladymarmalade on Feb 27, 2018 14:13:30 GMT -5
Salsa.
I make dozens of different kinds if I have the right produce, but it's my favorite thing because it's easier than it seems. It's something that we'll eat a lot of if I have it on hand, and I can make it for less than I can buy it. It also makes the BEST gifts. No one ever complains when we hand them a couple of jars of salsa.
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Post by Hensaplenty on Feb 27, 2018 14:39:38 GMT -5
canning tomatoes and green beans
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Post by september on Feb 27, 2018 15:26:31 GMT -5
Tomatoes, peppers would top my list for favorites, but as far as preservation, I get the most volume and mileage out of frozen green beans, sweet corn and broccoli.
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Post by brownrexx on Feb 27, 2018 17:24:22 GMT -5
I don't know if I could pick a favorite since I preserve almost everything that I grow except for squash and green beans. We don't care for those frozen.
I freeze tomatoes, peppers, asparagus, peas, lima beans, carrots, corn, and various greens but then I also save dry beans, winter squash, garlic and potatoes.
I also dehydrate pear slices and some herbs.
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Post by paulf on Feb 27, 2018 19:22:07 GMT -5
We freeze tomatoes and sweet corn (not my favorite) and I like to make jelly out of the fruit we grow...next is blackberry jelly whenever I get enthused enough to do the work.
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Post by guruofgardens on Feb 27, 2018 20:14:22 GMT -5
We freeze everything we can use in soups, mostly tomatoes, broccoli, green beans, cabbage, pie pumpkins, carrots from our gardens. We do buy corn and chiles and freeze them.
We pickle beets, cukes, peppers.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Feb 27, 2018 20:21:56 GMT -5
For me, potatoes would be number one. Have potatoes, fixed one way or another, almost every day. After that might be carrots or corn. Grow only what I eat, and sure eat what I grow.
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