Posted on 07/27/2019 7:18:06 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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When you disguise the sharpness of the cheddar by melting it, surrounding it with a hot pepper and bacon then it’s edible. My wife likes it in chunks right off of the block. That’s too much for me but she’s British and was raised on it.
AMISH ONION PATTIES
ING 3/4 cup flour tb ea sugar, cornmeal, 2 tsp b/powder, tsp salt, 3/4 cup milk 2 1/2 c chp onions, oil for frying
METHOD Mix dry ing; add milk and stir; batter will be thick. Add onions and mix thoroughly.
Heat 1/2" oil over med-high. drop batter by tb in hot oil; flatten slightly.
Brown on both sides til crisp; drain on paper towels.
I think a regular cheddar will work.
Lord willing, I should have some fresh peppers in a couple months.
Mine are HOT. Freaked a friend out after I gave him some. He was afraid there was pesticide. Nope.
Miracle-Gro, Epsom Salts, city water and rain water. Maybe some ground-up food-scraps fertilizer and Jobe’s plant food.
He probably never, ever got peppers that fresh before.
This guy has been eating peppers since the 1980’s at least. A lot.
Mine blew him away. They’re just jalapeno. I gave him several and maybe one sweet snacking pepper (so few actually grow).
These are Martha's tender-steamed carrots---buttered-and brown sugar glazed.
I like the way she cuts them in spears---to look like-fresh-picked farmstand carrots.
She removes, then crisps the green tops in oil, before adding as a garnish.
Thanks.
My zucchini started out like that.
This week I only got two or three off of about half a dozen plants.
Maybe it is too hot.
I can’t grow watermelon either but I think that’s because it gets so cool at night here. Don’t watermelon need warm nights too?
I like carrots with butter, dill, salt and pepper.
The stuffed jalapeno recipe I use is easy and delicious. Brown 1 pound of Jimmy Dean or another breakfast sausage bulk package. Drain. Put 1 package of cream cheese in a bowl, add 1 cup of parmesan cheese, and the warm sausage. Mix well. I cut my peppers in half lengthwise, stuff and lay a 1/3 bacon slice on top. I place on some foil on a cookie sheet. In the oven at 350 for about 30 minutes or more, til the bacon and peppers look done. I clean out the pepper halves of every membrane and seed and they are never hot.
My young asparagus crowns are doing very good...
I've liked Bonsai for years...and have some plants. All outdoor plants...
Tried "air-layering" this year...have not cracked them open yet...maybe in a couple weeks. I did a Hibiscus x two...a Plum...and a Burning Bush.
Want to do a Crepe Myrtle, and a Sugar Maple......I think I could still get away with doing it now...The Myrtle will be the better candidate.
Anyway...thanks for the ping..!!
Good gardens to you all....
Nice, I will chime in on the carrots, my favorite way is to steam til tender then saute briefly in butter, pecan chips and some maple syrup.
Yummy recipe....thanks.
We got good lettuce for about 4-5 years, by letting one go to seed that had been ‘planted’ by birds. Didn’t collect the seeds, but just let them drop naturally.
After Fall tilling the area the plant was in, a few would sprout the next Spring, and continue the cycle. Finally, we had some issues that prevented us from being able to take care of the garden one summer, and our volunteers died without issue. The original was an heirloom leaf lettuce.
With hybrids, it’s a crap shoot: you might roll a
7; but you’re more likely to get snake eyes or boxcars.
I changed up this last time...and didn't use bacon..used precooked summer sausage...and just stuffed them. They were good too!!
I never thought of straight-up onions that way, but I always add grated onion to the Zucchini Pancakes I make. :)
I was just out trolling the garden and I have 8 nice zucchini picked. Some will be shredded and frozen for later use and some I will spiralize and freeze.
I actually NEED to water the garden in the morning. We’re probably going to go from floods to drought this season. Yeesh! Is it too much to ask for 1 lousy inch of rain each week, versus none at all or all at once? ;)
It’s hard to train even ONE puppy.
A whole camp full...now that’s a challenge!
“Don’t watermelon need warm nights too?”
All melons like lots of warm, lots of water. Beau is crazy about watermelon; I think it’s the most resource-hogging, land-hogging dumb thing to plant.
In my usual passive-aggressive way when it comes to melons, I ‘accidentally forgot’ to start some for him this season - though I DID start a few muskmelon for him. ‘Wisconsin Pride’ I think? They’re down in the lower garden - one of the few things around here that are NOT my area of responsibility!
I absolutely HATE chopping up a watermelon! Unless you’re dehydrated and have no access to running water, what is the point? LOL!
Liz? Don’t even GO THERE with watermelon recipes! (She’ll go there, I’ll bet, LOL!)
The best carrot recipe I’ve come across in the past few years has been ‘Whiskey Glazed Carrots’ from Ree What’s-Her-Name, Pioneer Woman. I made them for Thanksgiving a few years back and now everyone wants them at every family gathering! They really ARE that yummy:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ree-drummond/whiskey-glazed-carrots-2507099
Haven’t tried this mix for poppers, but it should work. I use it with Anaheim’s or Poblanos to make rellenos.
I have good luck using an approx 50-50 mix of cream cheese, and shredded “4 Cheese Mexican Blend”. NOT “Taco blend”-blech! In a pinch, shredded Colby-Jack also works well.
Soften the cream cheese in a bowl; add the shreds, and mix thoroughly.
Naturally, once I get them stuffed, I batter & deep fry them, then pour enchilada sauce over them; sprinkle with more of the shredded cheeses, and top with sour cream.
The capsaicin in the peppers, as mild as they are, kills any calories crawling on them. lol
Sometimes, if I’m feeling extra creative, I’ll use a mini food chopper to mince some onion & cooked bacon, and add that to the cheese mix.
Mmmmmm........a must-try.
It’s only three this time around; I had SEVEN to raise/train in 2017! Just talked to Beau, who is currently up at Pre-Bear Camp, and one of the Pups I raised in 2018 treed his first bear, today! *SNIF*
Go, Seneca! :)
I do the Basic Training so they learn basic commands, learn to return to their assigned kennels, jump up into the dog boxes to go hunting and a few other details. Beau takes it from there to teach them the ropes of either Raccoon or Black Bear hunting. We raise Treeing Walker Coon Hounds for Raccoon and some prove to be tenacious enough for Black Bear, and then Plott Hounds, strictly for Black Bear.
It’s a whole ‘nother world that I’m marrying into - and while I’ve always had ‘house/pet’ dogs in my life, this is a totally different thing. One of my girlfriends was over today and she was checking out the dogs and the Puppies-In-Training and she was like, ‘Don’t they need a blanket to sleep on?’ Yeah. Fine. You and your Designer Dog Labradoodle wouldn’t last two MINUTES in the woods, LOL!
In the summer months you can chase the bears around, but you can’t start harvesting until late September, I think? Anyhow, I have ONE success story under my belt for now! Well, actually TWO - our current ‘Yakama’ Treeing Walker Coon Hound is showing awesome promise with raccoon, and the pups I’m raising now are his; we bred our first batch from him this past winter. Yakama was all in; VERY enthusiastic when the Lady Dogs were around, LOL!
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