These look good. Layers of buttery oat crumble, sweetened cream cheese and Rose hip jam
Posted on 10/16/2021 6:18:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
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These look good. Layers of buttery oat crumble, sweetened cream cheese and Rose hip jam
“These look good. Layers of buttery oat crumble, sweetened cream cheese and Rose hip jam”
And you don’t have to go overseas for any of the ingredients! (Liz, I am not sure how I can work this into my Intermittent fasting regimen!)
Lol.......save it for a cheat day.
:)
They have a mild flavor, very similar to a mild, sweet cabbage core; very pleasant; no 'bite' or bitterness at all.
Put several large ones into plastic bags, and stored them in the downstairs fridge. Tonight, we processed 7 largish vacuum sealer bags of cubes, and stuffed them into the freezer. Nearly the same amount left to process tomorrow evening.
Any ideas what caused this, and how to duplicate it next time?
As harvested
After peeling
After blanching, and a finished sealer bag
I planted 3 rosa rugosa at the S.West corner of our property. It had beautiful pink flowers. I do not recall the exact name. I had really big rose hips. Hubby “accidentally” ripped it out when he was doing some clearing to make a new garden.
Ha. I’ve already been AWOL most of the year. Lousy weather. I’m not planning on doing much this winter, unless the stores are out of fresh produce - then I may do some growing where ever I can stick a pot or flat or two.
Impressive! Those are so yummy roasted! :)
We got 3”+ of badly needed rainfall over the past week here in Central Missouri. The only part of it that ran off was what fell on roof or road. The ground sucked it right up.
Not much going on in the garden due to the wet conditions. I did pull a few weeds out of a row of beets yesterday, but other than weeding I’m just looking at it until it dries up a bit. The fall crops are all doing well. The dwarf okra is blooming like crazy but none of the pods are surviving.
I went with the 36 volt, 16" Makita cordless chainsaw. I was already heavily invested in Makita tools, so it made good sense to stick with it. Probably cost a little more than some other brands, but the batteries are interchangeable among all of the different tools, and I have enough of them that there are always at least half a dozen that are fully charged sitting on the shelf in my workshop.
I can't find a single bad thing to say about it.
I was able to get to Home Depot last week. There was a huge amount of beautiful looking pansy and ‘mum plants. I bought quite a few of both. After planting the newbies, I discovered to my delight there is still room for more plants! So I’m off to another greenhouse to get more. The daffy bulbs I ordered online have arrived and will be planted as soon as it is cold enough. I discovered something strange when pulling up the tuberous begonias. There were small leaves but no sight of the bulbs! I know I planted them but have no idea what happened to the bulbs! It’s like last fall. I know I planted the daffy and grape hyacinth bulbs but nothing grew
“I know I planted the daffy and grape hyacinth bulbs but nothing grew.”
Squirrels could’ve dug them from the top; voles could’ve eaten them from the bottom. Also be careful with planting depths - check those packages for recommendations. If you are going to mulch, either with straw (like me) or cedar mulch, make sure you could those ;inches’ as planting depth, too. Too deep can sometimes result in no bulbs by spring, and too deep will also give you leaves and no blooms. This also happens with over-crowded bulb beds - which reminds me; I need to split my Cat’s Eye mini-Iris ‘clump.’
Happens to us all from time to time. :(
I got one bed cleaned out and after lunch will start on the other. This is where my spring blooming bulbs and garlic are going to be planted. My Mom is having someone till a garden bed for her, and I’ll be helping her plant bulbs later this month. She’s 84 - and I’m so HAPPY that she still has an eye to the future!
It’s a little too early for us to plant, too. My bulb order from Jung’s should be coming soon - shipping delays from Holland, of course.
Great Lakes Staple Seeds https://greatlakesstapleseeds.com/ has a wide range of fall-planted grain seeds available. Including a few hard white wheat varieties! I ordered a small pack of each HWW to test. Although stuff keeps happening to interfere with getting out to my farm, so I may not get these planted until next year. We’ll see.
At any rate, given the supply shortages all over the place, I’d feel a lot better if I could grow my own.
When it comes to wheat, how much does it take to bake, say, a loaf of bread? Is it even remotely possible for a home gardener? I’m remembering a book called, ‘Make the Bread, Buy the Butter’ by Jennifer Reese. She did all the math and stuff involved with which homemade products and which purchased products gave you the most bang for your buck.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Make-the-Bread-Buy-the-Butter/Jennifer-Reese/9781451605884
I don’t remember if she went into growing your own grains, though. I know nothing about growing grains. :)
According to various internet sources, a 10ft square patch will produce enough for 1 loaf. I have not tested that yet, I’m still trying to get back more than what I planted.
Other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.
How are you planting? Drill; broadcast; something else?
I've used my tiller to shallowly till in broadcast seed--HRW--with good results.
Better result was deep tilling, then using a hand-push grass-seed spreader, set to a recommendation from the manufacturer; I think it was an old Scott, with about a 3' width. That was for a 40 X 110' plot: never again!
Hand harvesting; hand threshing; hand winnowing...then raking & stacking the straw. From that, we ended up with several gallon jars & some 5 or 6-quart ice cream buckets full of clean wheat seed. I still have a 32 quart plastic tub full of mostly unthreshed heads left.
This year, I did thresh out a bit over a quart of seed, enough for a 25 X 40' plot. I used the tiller to plant that into a 20 X 35' plot as mainly a green manure crop. It germinated ~75%, which is fairly well, considering the seed was several years old & had just been left in the plastic tub in an a open faced barn.
I plan on letting enough to mature for new seed, but will plow the rest under in the spring, while still growing. So far, it's about 3-4" tall. I've also used the tiller method to grow both small amounts of rye & barley with goo0d results & return.
Another one is Home Grown Whole Grains; Grow Harvest & Cook Wheat, Barley, Oats, Rice, Corn, & More by Sara Pitzer. She gives a figure of "up to" 20 pounds from a 10 X 10 plot; that seems like a highly optimistic number, and is way higher than Logsdon's 5.5 lbs.
Hope this helps.
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