Monday, March 25, 2013

Harvest Monday, March 25th, 2013

Not much has been going on in the harvesting front with more snow last week. I made a large sweet potato and onion dish that I ate all week long with stored sweet potatoes from the garden, but my onions are long gone. The greens varied from spinach, to kale, to broccoli all frozen from the garden. The above even has tartar sauce made from my homegrown pickle relish.

I have some friends that don't eat pork and were getting some pork from their meat CSA so I've been getting the joy of fresh pork. So I sent back some carrots with them. I have way too many carrots frozen this year. I've got to check the freezer and see what else I have too much of so I can send it off to someone.

Harvest Monday is a day to show off your harvests, how you are saving your harvest, or how you are using your harvest. If you have a harvest you want to show off, add your name and link to Mr Linky below.

18 comments:

  1. It's nice you are able to share items between yourself and your friends - helps with surpluses to be able to share it with others. I am swimming in green beans this year for some reason. Guess I put by more of it in the freezer than I realized last summer!

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  2. Fresh pork for carrots sounds like a pretty good deal to me! Not that I have carrots myself. Maybe someday I will grow enough carrots to be able to freeze some. I had fresh spinach this week and that was enough to make me happy. Today it is frozen again, though it looks like later this week it will warm up a bit.

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  3. Know what you mean about snow last week. I cannot get into my shed because of last week's snow. Your sweet potatoes dish looks delicious, how did you make it?

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    1. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Roasted-Sweet-Potatoes--Onions/Detail.aspx

      Though I didn't use the almonds.

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  4. Your Harvest Monday Mr. Linky provides a way to connect with so many different gardeners. Thank you!

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  5. I'm slowly working my way through some of my freezer stash also, but there's a lot left in there! It's good that you are able to share, I'm not so sure that my friends would want my frozen veggies.

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  6. Lovely meal from your stores......is there a particular veggie you feel freezer's the best and one that you wouldn't bother with? I didn't relise just how much friends and neighbors enjoyed my surplus produce until we went on holidays and I asked a few to drop in and pick what they liked while giving the garden a water, apparently there was a stand off over the tomatoes! lol!
    Great to share and swap with others....

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    1. Spinach and kale freeze very well. I'm not a big fan of frozen green beans or snap peas. I don't like their texture as much when frozen. Though I do freeze some beans as I put them in soup.

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  7. Hi Daphne, You are not alone when it comes to waiting for spring! I hope it arrives soon. You are doing a wonderful job of using your things up while you are waiting and sharing your extra. I have frozen a few carrots but need to freeze more this year and learn how to cook with them! Thank you for sharing! Nancy

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  8. Hope you'll be seeing those spring signs soon, but we'll have 42* tomorrow so I'm afraid it's late this year. :-(

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  9. I definitely need to grow and freeze more kale next year. And I've just ordered my sweet potato slips - I've never grown them before, so I'm looking forward to that experiment!

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  10. I didn't have carrots last year, hopefully I can get some going this year. I'm not a fan of frozen green beans either, will try canning or dehydrate the beans someday, maybe I'll use more of the stash.

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  11. I haven't had any sweet potato in ages but it will be harvest time soon so I will again. I could buy it but with so many things coming out of the garden at the moment its difficult to justify so I will wait til next month when mine should be ready.

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  12. We got some snow last night too! Everything on that plate looks delicious. Well balanced and nutritious.

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  13. Your pork chop is killing me. I'm going to have to get some.

    http://planetpooks.com/harvest-monday-3-25-13/

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  14. You are encouraging me to try growing sweet potatoes... I love them and the idea of having them in the patch is very appealing!

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  15. I've almost finished winter crops too, but the new seedlings are almost ready to be transplated, and a new season begins!

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  16. Wish we have home grown carrot in stock too :).

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