“Maybe this should be the weekly gardening/cooking thread most of the year and transform into the weekly cooking/gardening thread by Winter. LOL”
I’ve actually thought about doing that. I want to have an ‘Eating from the Garden’ Challenge this winter.
A friend that lives in north central Illinois is a great gardener. She actually keeps track of how many days a year that she eats at least ONE thing from her garden. She does it like 300+ days a year between eating fresh in season, Spring through Fall, and then whatever she’s canned or frozen from her garden in the Winter months.
I am making it a GOAL to do this starting 1-1-24, and I hope I can stick with it this year!
I guess part of it is that I ‘take it for granted’ that I’m eating SOMETHING from my own hands (or from Beau’s hunting/fishing skills) but it would be fun to track what we eat each day from either the garden or hunting or fishing.
This would also easily tie-in with the Survival Skills thread of Cottonball’s.
Great idea, I’ve been doing that since summer. And now that we put up so much veggies I try to have at least one harvest item in our meal. Today it was Chinese Long beans and chopped frozen green onions added to our chicken soup. Oh and a dollop of shishito sauce on a piece of salmon from the freezer.
I love the combo of gardening and then recipes using it. Using the canned Garden Products could easily evolve from that, like you said.
If anybody wants to take over the prepping thread, please do!!
Just got up and looked outside - we got a surprise snow last night! Maybe an inch - really stuck to the trees, so it’s pretty. Roads are clear and it will be in the 40’s today which means it will melt.
No travel troubles yesterday. Some rain on the way, but not heavy. When we left, cold air was filtering in and there was fog on the mountain. We ran into the back of the storm when we got near home & had some heavier rain. Rain gauge at 6:30 pm was about an inch, 2 inches at 11:00 and 2.75 this morning, plus the snow. There were tornado watches last night & a warning, but those had all expired for us by bedtime and we did not get any high winds.
The Christmas Dinner was great - lots of food. My dishes were near the end of the food line, but the corn pudding & baked beans were about half gone, which was pretty good considering all the other food that was there. We have a date for next year’s dinner, which is a good thing ... looks like a family ‘tradition’ is starting.