I started picking peas Sunday afternoon, but wound up pulling the plants, they were just about spent. It took two hours to shell them, and I now have 5 full cups of peas in the freezer.
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I've been hard-boiling eggs about once a week, and making pickled eggs at the same time. So far my process is putting the eggs in pickle juice or pickled beets juice, then waiting a couple weeks before eating. Yummy.
I hard-boiled eggs yesterday. Today I peeled them, and the intact eggs went into a jar of brine that had contained pickled beets.
We'll see how that works...
Yesterday I harvested carrots, about 50 in all. One of them was huge, and I sliced it thinly. Then I sliced up a few small carrots that had been overlooked in the refrigerator for a few weeks and had turned rubbery. I cooked them all in water until there was just a trace of firmness left in the...
I still have some of the turnips I harvested weeks ago, they've been stored in the refrigerator. I sliced 3 or 4 thinly, put them in a microwave pot with some water, and added a few chunks from a crookneck squash that sat too long, was going soft. After ten minutes cooking on high I added some...