A vegetable supper

[Padraig18]

Tony and I are reaping the wealth of fresh stuff from the garden, and plan to have a 'vegetable supper' tonight. One the menu:


-- Eggplant Parmesean
-- Sweet corn on the cob
-- Red and yellow tomatoes
-- Cucumbers and onions in vinegar and sugar
-- Buttered, parslied potatoes
-- Green beans
-- Butter beans
-- Deer-tongue lettuce salad
-- Pickled okra
-- Watermelon and cantaloupe chunks

I'm also making cornbread.

Don't you just LOVE summer?

:D

[onebigbadwulf]

1. I think I'd substitute a few things there

toss the corn, toss the potatoes...

add some soy. replace cornbread with garlic or french bread.

Now you have a winner.

[Padraig18]

4. You don't like fresh sweet corn or fresh potatoes?

Good lord, man, are you a Communist, or something? (j/k)

;)

[Maddy McCall]

7. I LOVE fresh sweet corn...

especially the way my mother makes it. She removes it from the cob and then scrapes the cob with a knife into the bowl with the removed kernels. The juice is what we southerners call the "milk." It's the sweet juicy stuff left in the cob.

She cooks it in a butter coated cast iron skillet on the stove top for a couple of hours, and *viola!* homemade fresh creamed corn.

YUMM!

[Padraig18]

8. That sounds DELICIOUS!

*drool*

:)

[Maddy McCall]

2. Fry the okra instead of pickle it, and I am on my way.

;-)

On edit, I didn't mean to tell you how to cook. :-)

Actually, the whole meal sounds extremely delicious. But you know us Southerners--we have to fry something. ;-)

[Padraig18]

3. We can do that.

:D

[Maddy McCall]

5. That is my FAVORITE fresh vegetable...

and see my edit. If you can't put cornmeal on it, it's just not edible to Southerners. :-)

[Padraig18]

6. Tony wanted fried green tomatoes.

We compromised and are having them tomorrow night, because we have SOOOOOOOOO many ripe ones we need to use up first.

:)

[Maddy McCall]

9. My brother planted eight, yes, EIGHT jalapeno plants...we have peppers

running out our ears.

I'm trying to find a good recipe for jalepenos. I make my own salsa, but I am telling you, we are picking fifty or sixty peppers a day.

Any ideas? :shrug:

[Padraig18]

11. Hot slaw

Make some vinegar-based cole slaw in a one-gallon jar, and dice up a couple of jalapenbos in it; it keeps well (forever) in the fridge and is a delicious side dish with all sorts of meat.

:)

[Maddy McCall]

12. I'll give it a try.

Or I can trade you some jalepenos for some of that okra. :-)

[politicat]

13. Jalepeno Pepper Jelly

It works really well with meats - the sugar calms the heat, but the flavor comes through. We blend it up with some OJ to make it into a marinade. I've been told that others mix it with cream cheese for a cheeseball, but we're in the west and we don't do cheeseballs anymore. *grin*

JALAPENO PEPPER JELLY  




1 c. lengthwise strips green bell pepper (about 1 med. pepper)
1 1/2 c. cider vinegar
1/3 c. quartered fresh jalapeno peppers with seeds
5 c. granulated sugar
1 pouch (3 oz.) liquid pectin
5 drops green food color

Combine pepper strips, vinegar and jalapeno peppers in a blender. Process stop-and-go fashion to desired fineness. Combine with sugar in saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat and skim to remove foam. Cool 2 minutes, then mix in pectin and food color.

Pour into sterilized jars and fasten lids. Process in boiling water bath for 15 minutes if desired. Cool. Invert jars a few times after about 30 minutes of cooling to distribute peppers evenly before jelly completely sets.

RED JALAPENO PEPPER JELLY:

Substitute red bell peppers for the green; use 5 drops red food color instead of green.

Makes 5 cups.

[Maddy McCall]

15. That sounds GREAT. I can make Christmas gifts for my friends...

and it won't cost me much at all. I have bell peppers too.

Thanks!

[niyad]

17. throw them in ziplocs and toss in freezer,whole or chopped

[niyad]

18. go to any of the recipe sites, including

www.kitchenlink.com, www.foodtv.com, and type in 'jalepenos"-- should give you some good ideas

[Mika]

10. That'll send your blood sugar soaring

You can look up the glycemic index and load of foods here, http://ziag4.mmb.usyd.edu.au/mainV4a.htm
http://www.glycemicindex.com/


Low GI = 55 or less
Medium GI = 56 - 69
High GI = 70 or more


Low GL = 10 or less
Medium GL = 11- 19
High GL = 20 or more


Low GL < 80
High GL > 120

[Courtesy Flush]

14. I haven't gardened in years

Don't have the time anymore, but I remember that vegetables seemed to taste better when I grew them myself.

We had a Square-Foot Garden. I don't know if you remember, but there was a PBS show by the same name. It got me hooked on organic gardening. The concept really worked. Take a tiny piece of ground, and improve the soil so that it's very fertile, then plant lots of stuff in that tiny space. We had two 8'x4' plots and we couldn't eat all the food we grew. When I told people all the different things we were growing, they assumed we had several acres. It was just a tiny garden that you wouldn't even notice if you drove past it.

Man, now I want to plant another one :)

[Courtesy Flush]

16. While we're on the subject

I may be showing my age here, but back when I had a garden, I subscribed to "Organic Gardening" magazine. It was a wonderful rough-around-the-edges publication, printed on newsprint. I imagined how fun it must have been to work there. I could picture the publisher's office in a shack next to an acre test garden. Then, one day, a slick magazine arrived in the mail. It had a celebrity on the cover ( I think it was Willie Nelson), and it wasn't my beloved magazine anymore. I was heartbroken that they had sold out and become a glossy rag.

I let my subscription lapse, and a couple years later I got a letter from the magazine. Apparently, a lot of subscriptions had lapsed, and they got the message. They apologized for going Hollywood, and said they were returning to their roots.

I figured that the original garden lovers were no longer on staff, and the magazine would never be what it was, so I didn't respond to the solicitation.

Sad. It was a great publication in its day.

[VoteDemocratic2004]

19. I made slop tonight

Your dinner sounds much better then what I had to eat.

You don't know what I would give for home grown vegetables.

I use to have a garden and nothing compairs to fresh vegetables right out of your garden.