I gotta go sell pumkins today! Have a good one!
Posted on 10/09/2009 5:31:49 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Just an update from around 11:00 pm, 8500 ft elevation in Colorado Rockies NW of Golden. A sweltering 16F and snowing. Will be interesting for baseball playoffs vs. Phillies on Saturday in Denver! Ihe cherry, blueberry, apple, plum and grape leaves were green and now look burned by cold. They were supposed to be cold weather varieties. Hope they can make it till next spring!
Just being 2 of us, I cut the recipe in half, which gave us 21 donuts, and a half dozen donut holes; I used the rest of the holes to mix back into the dough to make more donuts. We were quite happy with the results. Since it calls for “3 or 4” eggs, I used 2; otherwise all amounts were exactly cut in half.
I didn’t have the same wild rising problem Red_Devil 232 did. I sat the bowl of dough on the open door of the warming oven of the kitchen wood range to rise & punch down a few times.
We coated them with cinnamon sugar, rather than using the glaze, with great results.
Not having a donut cutter, I used a regular-mouth Mason jar lid-ring to cut the main donut, and the cap from a 1 liter size plastic soda bottle to cut out the holes.
Shocking picture. We didn’t have quite that much in Rapid, but the deep freeze caught us unprepared. Big rush to get hoses laid out to drain, and off the outside faucets, not to mention the RV. Inside temp in the 50’s using the heater and a backup electric, but quarter filled tanks could be a problem.
Picture needs an explanation, how “HOT” Springs, looks like it does. Global warming, Hah!
Yikes! It’s 8am here and a muggy 79. Going to get worse before the day’s out. It’s so humid outside the windows are fogged up. Glad I’m not trying to grow a garden where you are! It’s hard enough here!
OTOH—we can’t grow most apple varieties—they don’t get enough chill hours. That’s the # of hours it stays below freezing. :)
Well, lack of mosquitoes is SOME consolation, LOL! It was 28 degrees this morning. The frost is definately on the pumpkin, Country Bumpkin’! :)
“They are an old fashioned perrenial, non-bulbing type, that just keeps splitting, and splittting, and splitting...”
We sell them as “yellow potato onions,” but I don’t know where the goofy name comes from.
And yes, my friends and I always have a batch of Amish Friendship Bread starter on the counter when fall hits. BUT, you have to have a LOT of friends, because that stuff multiplies faster than a rabbit, LOL!
Maybe I’ll do a Foodie Thread on that? Thanks for the idea!
Sorry! LOL I wouldn’t mind a little cooler—79 and m-u-g-g-y.
That’s one of my all time favorite songs, BTW.
I gotta go sell pumkins today! Have a good one!
Awwww Gbaby is in my lap. He said that’s me!
Good selling :)
I make and can tomato sauce, along with whole tomatoes for stews and soups, also. For the past couple of years I've been making salsa, too. If you haven't tried this and you like salsa, try it, you won't be sorry. You can it with a "hot water bath" method just like tomato sauce or whole tomatoes. I use fresh onions, peppers and garlic out of the garden. Some recipes call for lemon juice, some call for vinegar to raise the acidity. I like lemon juice better. It gives the salsa a nice twang. It's light years better than any salsa you can buy in the store. So good, in fact, that it should come with a warning label. We eat it with chips, with eggs, or as topping for fajitas or tacos. Delicious!
I would give ANYTHING for no mosquitos, or at least less of them.
The yung’un was being picked up at 4:30 this morning and it was 76 degrees. In the 3 minutes I was outside to say good morning and have a good time to the crew as they left, I was covered in welts. Right now it is 80 and unbearably sticky, it is also overcast and that isn’t helping either.
Now for me to read the thread!!! With little missy spending the day in WAshington DC, hubby has promised me some actual adult time with other adults this afternoon, so all the things I would have normally done today, I did yesterday!!!!
Thank GOODNESS the starter freezes well, otherwise I would definitely be up a creek!!!!!
Either this evening or tomorrow I'm going to try out a new recipe I came across for strawberry nut bread...........it sounded intriguing.
It is 9:20 am and warming up, but still snowing. It has warmed up to 16F from a low last night of 7F. There are many apple trees around here just growing beside the road. I pulled off the road in Eldorado Springs, CO and picked a bunch of apples yesterday. I planted four varieties of apples in the yard this year. Also blueberries, nanking cherries, toka plum, two mount royal plums and two butternut trees. I have to get another red plum variety for cross pollination with the Toka plum. Glad I got the garlic planted when I did! There is a ski area just west of my home (Eldora Ski Resort) and I can even see the runs from my living room. It is the last privately run ski area left in Colorado. It is not very big, but also not too crowded.
Allowing the dough to rise in the fridge over night allows dough time to mature and have a better flavor. Texture will be finer also.
That was the first thing I made this year! We love homemade salsa. I should make more, too. Maybe I’ll set aside some greenies for that.
You know, I’ve never made sauce or juice. I hate skinning tomatoes, so haven’t branched out much. LOL.
Us too. We've just about OD'd on it lately. Fortunately, I put up about 60 pints. That should be enough for a few Christmas presents and enough for us to gorge on until my greenhouse starts putting out fresh tomatoes in about April.
You know, I’ve never made sauce or juice. I hate skinning tomatoes, so haven’t branched out much. LOL.
I have one of those Kitchen Aid mixers with a strainer attachment. It takes the skins and most of the seeds out. The salsa isn't as thick as what you'd make by hand, but it tastes the same and it's A LOT faster.....
How do you make your starter for the Amish Frienship Bread?
It had about 6-7 hours rise time, and 3 punch downs, including the final rising of the cut donuts. Started early, (around 4 PM and did the frying just after midnight) and finished late; we’re night owls.
For a first attempt, we were pleased, and next time we’ll be a bit less anxious to try them, so can do the over night. Besides, the fridge is too crowded with garden produce right now to stuff anything else into it.
We’re shopping for a larger one, and put this one into the utility room. ;)
I asked about the frindship bread, because these things have a similar propensity to multiply beyond all reason. ;-)
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