Posted on 08/26/2011 10:14:53 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232
Good afternoon gardeners. I hope all of you in the path of Irene heed the warnings and please stay safe! Not much gong on garden wise here in East Central Mississippi. I am just waiting to see how a few paste tomatoes do. And while I am waiting I decided to use some of my pears to make preserves. I am using the recipe I posted on last weeks thread, which calls for a little activity and a lot of waiting. I will be doing the final canning step this morning. This recipe may be way to sweet for my taste. So with all this waiting time I had, I needed to fill the time some how so I ordered a Beer making kit, which I understand includes a lot of waiting also. Now I am just waiting for FR to come back up so I can post this week’s thread. I have been doing a lot of waiting and it is tiring.
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My mom never liked it either. I drank it a little when young with friends but never liked it. The only thing I halfway liked was Rum and coke, Kahlua, Creme de Menthe and Creme de Cacao. The price of stuff is terrible at the liquor store now!
I like to cook with it though. Bourbon balls for Christmas. This yummy Chinese recipe I was successful with. I'm out of the habit of having a drink, really should have a little wine every day. I forgot, I like Mogan David Concord grape wine, also there is a pink kind that's nice; they use it for communion. My uncle made wine, turned into an alcoholic. Family thing on that side with the men. Our ancestor was a brewer in England, came here in about 1855, last five years of his life was hauled into court for selling liquor on Sunday. One son I think died a horrid death. They ran a pool hall. I researched and found all this stuff out.
My mom grew up downtown where low income people lived but not like now. During the prohibition, her two younger brothers were down by the river and found a whole case of something, brought a bottle home. Way my mom told the story, her mother had a fit and bawled them out for bringing it home. My grandfather had a fit and made the boys take him and get the rest of it lol.
I've never had fruit flies like this before. They're a little bigger than the regular ones, and I let some fruit stay exposed last fall and they've been plaguing me ever since, like to lay tomatoes on the counter to ripen, nooooo, not now. I wrap stuff up in the garbage & use garbage disposal, guess they still can smell it. I need to remember to get that can of beer. Lay something over the opening leaving a narrow slit, it attracts them and they drown. Hope it works.
There used to be a brewpub in Lafayette, La. I would get their brews to go, in two quart bottles. Bring the bottles back and get the refills (new bottles) cheaper. Nice beers. Last time I was there it had closed. Those Cajuns like their beer in volumes, ice down in coolers, right beside the crawfish boilers! Eeeyie!
I plan on using it in the original post.
Jacobs Cattle beans
I use them as dry beans. I use alot of dried bean recipes and like them because they are good and so pretty. Plus I prefer the heirloom vegetables.
That would be a potent combination of odors. Sauerkraut alone is pretty potent. Mom made hers outdcors, I made mine on an enclosed porch.
Cool...I’ll drop it from my ‘to do’ list and concentrate on making sauce the next few days...
Ah yes- Grandma Maggie had a way of fermenting her tomato seeds that worked great. She took the selected tomato, placed it i a jar lid in an east or south window in the kitchen. Let it sit there and do its thing, Later when the fermenting had stopped and the seeds were dry, she put them in a jar in the pantry til she started the seeds in early spring.
When she planted the young tomatoes in the garden, they were three-four inches tall. T hey always grew great and produced a bumper crop. What I do not know is what kind of tomato she planted.
Cleared our sinuses. ;-)
Great! Thanks for the link.
Yeah lemon cucumbers are good.... haven’t seen or eaten one in years
Good luck with the brewing.
I pitched a couple of rotting Black Cherry tomatoes into my raised bed last year because I was too lazy to haul them out to the ‘slop bucket’...sat there under four feet of snow all winter; then delivered a number of seven-foot tall ‘volunteers’ this spring/summer that are still packed with fruit...hundreds of tasty treats that I didn’t even plant ‘on purpose’...
I grew lemon cucumbers in two different locations last year. The ones that grew in front of my house tasted like honeydew, the ones that grew in the greenhouse tasted like regular cukes.
Shoot him. If it lasts 15 years, Texas will look like the Sahara
LOL, that’s what happened when I opened the door to my sister’s basement when bil was into beer making.
If you don’t mind posting your rib recipe, coleslaw, potato salad and saurkraut, I’d appreciate it. I borrow, beg and steal recipes for my book after they’ve been tried on some very finicky friends.
Very nice!
I wouldn’t bottle it, just get a bigger fridge.
HA!
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