If it's good enough for Capm Jack Sparrow then it's good enough for those asking for food.
Posted on 07/19/2019 12:12:25 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
“sued” or “used”?
Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and most of the rest of the Midwest experienced severe flooding this season and most fields will either get planted late or not get planted at all.
I imagine the corn harvest in the MW will be bad this year.
Ditto on the storage for canned versus frozen.
And, I like the canned creamed corn for convenience.
OTOH, there’s no arguing with frozen peas over canned.
Well, maybe if the cost was zero for the canned. Still..
Just keep thinking that those fresh veggies will always be in the store. Nothing will ever, ever go wrong. No need to ever have any canned food in your house. The government will always take care of you. Go back to sleep, citizen.
Ping.
It doesn’t help that we are losing farms at an astronomical rate so when an agricultural disaster hits, we are screwed.
Apricot Semifreddo... (begin the day before, needs two chilling periods)
Ingredients
Puree the apricots in a food processor. Can be a little lumpy if you like. Put this in the freezer to chill while you're making the rest. It helps it all to get colder faster.
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, bring evap. milk just to the boiling point; don’t boil. In a bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, sugar and salt. Pour a little of the hot evap. milk into the egg yolks, whisk. Pour the egg yolks back into the pan with the milk and cook until thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon, 5 minutes.
Remove this custard from the heat and stir in the cold orange juice, the vanilla and the cold apricot puree. Refrigerate overnight, or until thoroughly chilled and thickened.
(Next day or a couple hours later)
Whip the heavy cream with powdered sugar until just stiff. Gently fold in the chilled thickened apricot custard. Line a loaf pan with plastic wrap, leaving an overhang on sides and ends. Pour the apricot mixture into pan, cover with the overhang, smooth the top. Freeze for at least 6 hours.
When it's frozen you can put the whole dish in hot water briefly to loosen it, and then remove it from the loaf pan for easier handling. Thereafter ---if your family doesn't gobble up the whole thing right away --- you can put the solid frozen loaf-shaped dessert into a bread bag to put back in the freezer.
Serve sliced thick, with raspberry or blueberry sauce. I like the raspberry, it's great with this and so easy: take raspberry jam and warm it in the microwave until you can pour it. Spoon some over each slice of frozen semifreddo. That's it.
Or if you prefer blueberry sauce:
Blueberry Sauce Ingredients
Combine the blueberries, 1/4 cup of water, orange juice, and sugar. in saucepan, bring to a boil. In a cup or small bowl, mix together the cornstarch and 1/4 cup cold water. Gently stir into the blueberries. Simmer until thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Remove from heat, stir in the almond extract and cinnamon.
This makes a dessert which is just a tiny bit grainy (because of ice crystals) though it's creamier if you let it thaw slightly before eating. (Thus: Semi-freddo.) But we can never wait.
Next time I make it, I'm going to experiment with adding a little dissolved gelatin and a little dissolved acacia powder (a water-soluble fiber)to see if that may prevent ice crystal formation. Believe be, it's great either way, but I like to experiment in the kitchen.
It's an excuse to make more!
*** Have you been since? If there really were a shortage then it would happen for weeks on end on a constant basis. ***
Yeah, It’s been several weeks now, and I go down the veggie aisle every couple days.
On the upside, there are plenty of fixings for S’mores!
” American Children heartbroken over the canned spinach and pea shortages forced to eat S’mores instead “
I’m astounded people still buy canned vegetables.
In today’s world, Fresh and Frozen are available year round.
Canned beans? YOU BET!
Canned veg? They suck.
Oh, I used them! I never sue apricots. I would rather sue
someone nasty, and win. (Fantasizing about the Nick Sandmann Strategy.)
Let them eat S’mores then. 8>)
Sounds delicious! Thank you...
If it's good enough for Capm Jack Sparrow then it's good enough for those asking for food.
...am thinking these pictures were taken from a LA. store....
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Saw the exact same signs in SW WI yesterday afternoon. Empty shelves and scant merchandise in the vegetable aisle at Walmart.
https://www.usfoods.com/content/dam/usf/pdf/farmers_report/FarmersReport.pdf
http://www.centralillinoisproduce.com/documents/MarketOutlook.pdf
This time of year, I buy tomatoes from a local greenhouse operation. As of last week, they were 6 weeks behind, due to the late cold this spring. Some of the tomatoes I bought last week showed evidence of the cold when sliced.
We haven’t seen red-leaf lettuce for months.
Our local corn is either unplanted or short for the date.
This is real, but it appears short-lived and the widespread sources around the country helps mitigate the problems. However, we have had excessive rain here the past 6 weeks and right now it is beastly hot and humid with conditions where little grows.
Yep. Something else is going on...
Wait until you see the shortages next year. I live by a bunch of farms here in NE Illinois, not one of them got planted this year. The overwhelming majority of the farm fields within a 15-minute drive of my home didn’t get planted this year because the spring here was so wet farmers couldn’t get into their fields to plant.
...experiment with adding a little dissolved gelatin and a little dissolved acacia powder (a water-soluble fiber)to see if that may prevent ice crystal formation.
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Do you think Ultra Gel would work for that?
That might be the long term idea anyways.
Two back-to-back bad harvests and it’ll be dust bowl days again.
What’s that Snyder boy been smokin’? ;-D
Great idea! I think Ultra Gel would work. Experimentally, I would add say a teaspoon to the sugar (mix well) before mixing the sugar in with the egg yolks and beating them. I think that would prevent it from lumping.
I’ll try that next time.
Yet ANOTHER excuse for making some more. Experimentation: all in the service of Science!
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