Getting ready to can salsa, make sauerkraut and dehydrate zucchini

[Kaleva]

I picked the cabbage from the garden yesterday and I estimate I have 30-35 pounds of it. I'll make 5 gallons of sauerkraut with that and use the rest to make another batch of my version of kimchi.

Picked tomatoes, hot peppers and green peppers this morning for the salsa. The pint jars are being washed in the dishwasher and I'll soon start on chopping the onions, hot peppers, green peppers, and tomatoes. The recipe I'm using doesn't require the tomatoes to be cooked or peeled. Just cored and chopped.

I'll pick the zucchini later to today to put in the dehydrator, after being seasoned, to make zucchini chips.

I have "White Punks on Dope" playing on Alexa in the kitchen.

[Moostache]

1. Sounds like a lovely Sunday morning!

Good luck with the canning and the cooking and hopefully you'll be eating some of that in a new era for America - a post-Trumpism world for us all!

[WheelWalker]

2. Right on. Started the first run of Bartletts drying yesterday.

First batch of Parmesan zucchini chips finished last week.

[MLAA]

3. Wonderful, great yield from the garden.

What kind of dehydrated do you use?

[Kaleva]

5. Excalibur 3500B 5-Tray model

I bought it earlier this year and making the chips will be the first time I'll have used it.

[MLAA]

15. Thanks. How do you plan to store the chips?

I’m interested in trying my hand at dehydrating🙂

[Kaleva]

16. I stored the ones I made yesterday in my stomach.

Ate a heaping plate of them dipped in ketchup while watching "Horrible Histories" on Hulu.

I have a feeling that i will never have to be concerned about "storage" when it comes to zucchini chips.

[MLAA]

18. LOL! I hear ya!

[central scrutinizer]

4. I've got hot peppers fermenting

First batch should be ready in a week or so. It’s my new favorite way to make salsa.

[Kaleva]

6. Going to have to check that out.

I made fermented sugar snap peas not long ago and I loved them!

[central scrutinizer]

9. I use the same proportion as with sauerkraut

2.5% salt by weight. Meaty peppers like jalapeños can be chopped and pounded until the salt draws out the juices enough to cover. Thin walled peppers like habaneros need added (non chlorinated) water. I added carrots to one batch to add a little sweetness, like sriracha. It’s not done yet so I don’t know yet if it was a success.

[MissB]

7. Nice!

Enjoy the Excalibur! I borrow my sibling’s all the time.

I’m going to go drool at a garden today. Considering buying a property and it has a huge greenhouse, hoop house and raised beds on it. It would really expand my gardening capacity.

[Kaleva]

13. I'm in the process of converting the backyard into a veg. garden and orchard

I've made great progress on the garden this year and have a plan for the orchard as to what to plant and where to plant. I have room for a 40' row of raspberries, a 40' row of blueberries, 20 fruit trees (apples, plums, peaches, and pears) and a 2500 sq. ft. vegetable garden.

That property you are looking at appears to be a dream place!

[MissB]

14. Nice!

Yeah if we do this move it’ll be a different gardening climate for me. Peaches are dicey but apples, pears, plums and berries are good. There is a small orchard on the property already but not huge.

Sounds like you have a great thing going!

[Laelth]

8. Feeling energetic this morning, are we?

More power to you!



-Laelth

[AmyStrange]

10. Dehydrate the zucchini!

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What kind of monster are you anyway?

Probably one just like me, because all of that sounds so damn delicious!

Except for the cabbage. I love it, but my farts are so bad, they almost knock me out, and the worst part is there's no way to get away from it.

It follows me every-freakin-where!
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[Kaleva]

11. Wife called from the hospital and gave me further instructions.

I am to make can dilly beans instead of making sauerkraut.

[TlalocW]

12. Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

😀

TlalocW

[Kaleva]

17. Went to bed about 7ish last night. Made the dilly beans this morning.

9 pints.

Babysat a 1 1/2 y/o old for the afternoon, then mowed the lawn and made a zucchini cheese soup which i just finished eating a bowl of. Going to bed soon. Another busy day tomorrow.