{"id":432,"date":"2014-08-18T15:39:40","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:39:40","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T19:39:40","slug":"now-were-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"Now we’re cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can stop complaining about the lack of vegetables now:<\/p>\n

\"Harvest<\/a>
Harvest on 8-14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harvest<\/a>
Harvest on 8-17<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This was a lot of stuff to come in all at once.\u00a0 It looks very impressive, posted on Facebook.\u00a0 I had several offers to, “….take some of that off your hands.”\u00a0 So kind of those folks!\u00a0 Where were they when I was on my hands & knees for four hours, weeding?<\/p>\n

In the end, we put up 5 jars of pepperoncini peppers:<\/p>\n

\"Pepperoncinis\"<\/a>I found a great recipe for pickling them on Food.com<\/a>. Our first batch tasted a little mushy, probably from the length of time they sat in the canner until I was able to finish stuffing all the jars and bring it to a boil.\u00a0 This time we stuffed the jars, filled the brine, removed the air and then put them all into the canner at once.\u00a0 We’re hoping this makes them crisper.\u00a0 The ones available commercially taste too bitter to me, so if they are just a little crunchier, they will be perfect.<\/p>\n

We’ve got some beans coming, too:<\/p>\n

\"Anellino<\/a>
Anellino di Trento and Royalty Purple bush beans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We grilled these with a little bit of olive oil, lemon juice and dill and they were fantastic.\u00a0 We’re enjoying the beans more than normal, given that just three weeks ago we thought they were a total loss.\u00a0 Something was getting over our fence and eating the bushes.\u00a0 We suspect a woodchuck, and so we set up the electric fence around the wire one.\u00a0 Problem solved.<\/p>\n

After picking all those tomatoes, we parboiled, peeled, seeded and diced them into 2-cup quantities and froze them.\u00a0 We ended up with 2 bags of Krim, 3 bags of Kellogg, and a bag each of Brandywine and Roma.\u00a0 But we didn’t freeze all of them:<\/p>\n

\"2014-08-17<\/a>That is a Tomato Stack Salad with Corn & Avocado<\/a>.\u00a0 It is delicious.\u00a0 We used Krim, Kellogg and Brandywine, plus corn, fresh chive and basil from the garden in the dressing.\u00a0 We have been waiting all season to make that stack of deliciousness.\u00a0 It was worth the wait.<\/p>\n

In a fit of optimism, I planted 191 Knight peas in the back 40 yesterday.\u00a0 Average time to harvest?\u00a0 56 days.\u00a0 That puts us somewhere around October 12, give or take depending on how warm fall is.\u00a0 I may have wasted $1.50 in seeds if we have an early frost.\u00a0 This is my idea of living dangerously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can stop complaining about the lack of vegetables now: This was a lot of stuff to come in all at once.\u00a0 It looks very impressive, posted on Facebook.\u00a0 I had several offers to, “….take some of that off your hands.”\u00a0 So kind of those folks!\u00a0 Where were they when I was on my hands … Continue reading Now we’re cooking<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[73,58,70,36,46,30,61,53,31,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-6Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}