Kerry’s Garden

Looking on the counter I see today’s haul. A dozen or so jalepenos for hot poppers, a quart of raspberries, a handfull each of blackberries and strawberries, a couple of zucchini and a few green tomatoes for frying.
The Weatherbug calls for the possibility of rain today. I’ve known about this for a couple [...]

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Raspberry Pancake Syrup:
Yesterday I pulled the raspberries out of the freezer that I had been gathering every other day for the past two weeks. They filled an 8 qt pot to overflowing while frozen and once thawed and mashed took up about 3/4 as much space. This was heated slowly for the better [...]

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The better part of yesterday afternoon was spent getting my floor so sticky that you can’t stand in any one place very long for fear of being ’stuck’ there for good. The end result was 5 pints of blackberry pancake syrup and 6 pints of blackberry jelly.
I started out with about [...]

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If you have never heard of Kefir you can find out all about it at Dom’s Kefir site. Kefir is a milk product, somewhat similar but yet very different from yogurt. The ’starter’ used to make kefir is called a ‘grain’. These grains are not like cereal grains but are actually living [...]

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Last night we had bbq beef ribs and my favorite pasta salad for dinner. I used our own cherry tomatoes, dried tomatoes and basil from the garden. I have a pasta maker but didnt’ go that far though I might try it one of these times.
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Pasta Salad
1 box (1 [...]

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I really like Frank’s Red Hot sauce. Its a cayenne pepper sauce, more flavor than heat. I am actually a wimp when it comes to hot things. I like the flavor but the heat sends me cryin’. But… being the “I gotta try everything at least once” kind of person I [...]

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You can’t tell but there are 4 rows of green beans here. The far left row of Top Crop beans was just planted 4 days ago and the other three were planted on (Roma II) June 20, (TopCrop) May 26, and (Roma II) May 10
I picked a bunch of beans, mostly from the row [...]

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