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[kadiyaker]

It got a good dose of garden steroids last night - 2 and 6 tenths worth, some pretty rough stuff that left us without power from about 2AM till sometime before lunch.
The squash and zuchini are going crazy, some of the peppers are starting to produce, and the cucumbers and tomatoes are getting close.





anybody else enjoying their home grown produce?

I try to consume everything that the garden provides, but there's only so much you can do with zuchini - however I'm a self described 'country shef' and created a damn good soup the other day. If you're a patient cook give it a shot.

So I started with a about 8 medium/large zuchini and peeled them, cut'em up and tossed them in a big soup pot. Covered with water and started a slow boil. To this I added pretty much anything else I found in the frig/garden - fresh sweet peppers, bell peppers, celery, onion, basil, rosemary, and a healthy dose of garlic. I started this at lunch and turned it way down to as slow of a boil as I could get, then went back to work.
So when I returned everything was good and melted down - I created a vegetable soup essentially with a zuchini base.
Next I strained this returning the liquid stock back to the pot. Then I pureed all the veggies - you end up with a light green pea soup color. Then I took this and ran it through the strainer - this is a real pain, but it really helps the consistency and gets rid of a lot of crap from the celery and whatever else - this was then added back to the stock liquid in the pot.
So this is the base soup from here you can make it take on whatever flavor you want.
I added a couple tablespoons of chicken boulin, more fresh garlic, salt, pepper, an indian spice called gram masla ~1 tbsp (its a bunch of other spices mixed together - this stuff is like magic if you like indian food), about 3/4cup of heavy cream and a little honey if it needs it. Then I mixed in some diluted corn starch to thicken it to a good thick soup consistency.
Then I had to add some meat, so I had a whole turkey breast for sandwhich meat I had bought that needed to be eaten so I cubed it up, stir fried it with a little olive oil and carmelized onions then dumped it in... and that's it - complicated as hell (not really), but damn good and pretty much free, and really healthy (its not that much cream - and don't use the fat free stuff it will turn out sort of grainy instead of creamy)
I thought about it later and I bet if would have cubed up some fresh trout then added that to the boiling soup then cut it off and let it steep to cook the fish - that would have been much better than the turkey. Oh well, next time. To give you an idea of volume I probably ended up with a gallon of soup.
Anyone else have any novel recipes with a particular overly abundant garden vegetable. I got one more for maters, but much simpler and I'll share later when their abundant and can provide mouth watering pics

Enjoy!
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KadiyaKer



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[topdog15]

Bluffer has a post a while back of his garden. Nice greens.
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[Tyler]

That sounds good! As for the zucchini we put ours on the grill either split lengthwise or cut into 1 inch segments to use on shish kabobs.
What is that lacy looking taller plant on the lower right? It sort of looks like Asparagus.

Rain sure beats city water for making the garden and the grass grow.

[2salty4U]

kadiyaker:

Now you're cooking like a cajun! My wife gets local produce delivered to her office (City of Austin) every Thursday - with beaucoups of squash. I'm going to copy and forward your soup recipe to her. We'll probably make some this weekend.

THANKS

[LFAMOSO]

actually yeah made a soup out of fresh new potatoes(red), zuchini (8 ball),
bell peppers, carrots and tomatoes. the only thing that wasnt grown was the chicken i put in it. harvested about 30-35 lbs of the new potaroes. have pulled about 50 tomatoes. and for those of you growning zuchini. you gotta try the round 8 ball zuchini. bush type with high yield. and very delicious. my black diamonds and oro gold cantalopes still have a few weeks before harvest.
JM

[SurfinSapo]

Dang yall get all the rain.. Everyting looks so nice and green. my garden consists of chile pequin bushes and okra if I'm lucky.. Nice garden!!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
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[kadiyaker]

[Tyler]

[LFAMOSO]

Man didnt think about fried zuchini. gonna have to give it a try with the 8 ball. no fish though. will have to try it with quail.

[kadiyaker]

[Tyler]

No avocados yet. If you want Pequins, Tomatoes and Avocados you need to see Mr. Ralph. He has all of it.

[GoinCoastal]

Hey Tyler, How about your dad's fruit trees? What was that one weed that he had... was it a mango? That thing was growing like Jack's bean stalk a couple of years ago.

[slikster111]

WE eat a ton of squash at our house. Try cutting it in half and scooping the center out like a canoe. Then we add a little olive oil, garlic, diced tomatoes and mozarella cheese. We either bake it or grill it.

[Tyler]

[LFAMOSO]

ive got a pomgranate that puts fruit but they are always sour, or fall off before they mature. does anyone know why. also i have two bush/trees that out out a fruit that looks like a fig on the inside and has hard round seeds and when they ripe them smell is enough to keep you out of the back yard. does qanyone no what they are. i thought they were guavas.
JM