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Post by Drahkk on May 28, 2012 16:18:46 GMT -5
Pulled, cleaned, and put up about 150 ears of Merit Saturday. Silked, buttered, and grilled the first dozen!  Still have sweet potatoes from last fall; I think some sweet potato corn chowder sounds good tonight! |
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 28, 2012 16:24:50 GMT -5
GEEZ! And I thought we were on the ball with the corn!!! SOOOOO jealous ::scowls::
OOoOoo BUT! I did do something new today, I made Dutch Crunch rolls. I'm not thrilled with the bread part and I do need to play around a bit with making the rice slurry, but for a first shot, well... Mike is a happy camper!
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Post by davida on May 28, 2012 19:17:11 GMT -5
Pulled, cleaned, and put up about 150 ears of Merit Saturday. Silked, buttered, and grilled the first dozen! Still have sweet potatoes from last fall; I think some sweet potato corn chowder sounds good tonight! Wow, that corn looks great. And the corn chowder sounds good. We also still have sweet potatoes from last year. So, come on corn. We are a couple of weeks away but I'm checking it every day. |
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Post by davida on May 28, 2012 19:42:39 GMT -5
For my birthday, the kids and grandkids came over and we picked the last of the strawberries and then started on wild dewberries, blackberries, raspberries, blueberries and tomatoes. I had left the last of the potatoes for them to "treasure hunt" but the smaller ones were needing a nap by this time. I feel so blessed to be able to share the joys of garden life with the grandkids.
And the whipping cream from fresh cream from Peaches, our Jersey milkcow, was fantastic. If you are ever making whipping cream from fresh milk, use cream that is 2 or three days old. It is thicker than today's milk but still fresh enough to taste fantastic.
Hope everyone in the US had a great Memorial Day.
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Post by Drahkk on May 28, 2012 20:15:15 GMT -5
Wow, that corn looks great. And the corn chowder sounds good. We also still have sweet potatoes from last year. So, come on corn. We are a couple of weeks away but I'm checking it every day. And that pic was actually taken while reheating the extras on Sunday. They looked even better when they were first cooked on Saturday. Wish I'd thought to take a pic then. My b-i-l made several successive plantings this year. Those were from the first three rows that he laid down in mid-February. Our average last frost is March 20, so it was a risk, but our winter was extremely mild, and this year it paid off. OOoOo BUT! I did do something new today, I made Dutch Crunch rolls. I'm not thrilled with the bread part and I do need to play around a bit with making the rice slurry, but for a first shot, well... Mike is a happy camper! OK, Jo, I'll post my recipe if you do. Never heard of Dutch Crunch rolls, but they sound interesting, and I'm always up for something different! MB |
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Post by nathan125 on May 28, 2012 21:16:53 GMT -5
re-doing my corn patch. going with about 12 plants of josephs AD then doing 50 honey select or something then putting in 36 plants of frosty and honey selct mix, trying to create my own bi color. different planting dates of course. also sprayed for weeds and put grass seed in and then threw a temper tantrum and broke my phone. i can be very childish at times  |
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 29, 2012 1:57:15 GMT -5
You start with your favorite yeasted bread recipe. I used one for semmel rolls and wasn't happy with it. So... you are own there. The slurry part is as follows:
1 tbsp active dry yeast
1/2 cup room temperature water
1 tbsp sugar
1 tbsp vegetable oil (I used & liked sesame oil)
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup white rice flour (not sweet rice flour)
You mix this up right before you shape your breads. Once your breads are shaped and in the pan, paint the slurry over the tops and sides. Cover with a clean cloth as it completes rising, then bake as normal.
Look up "dutch crunch" and "tiger bread" images for an idea of what it looks like. My guys over did it in the garden yesterday and nobody was really hungry last night. But they have the star corn field in town! All hand weeded to get rid of the glyphosphate resistant weeds left to us by the farmer next door!
Nathan, sounds like maybe you overdid in the garden yourself! Hope you feel better in the morning!
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Post by Drahkk on May 29, 2012 5:53:30 GMT -5
OK, here's my chowder:
8-12 ears corn, depending on size and how chunky you like your chowder
6 cups chicken broth
Enough butter/olive oil to saute onion
1 medium red onion
6 cloves garlic
Peeled diced sweet potatoes
1 1/2 cups half-and-half
Salt
Pepper
Sugar
Cut kernels from cobs and set aside. Simmer cobs in broth for about 30 minutes. While that's cooking, dice enough sweet potatoes to make a pile the same size as your corn kernels. Saute onion and garlic in butter until soft. Use more or less garlic to taste; I like a lot, so I usually use 6-12 cloves. Remove and discard cobs from broth, then add corn, sweet potatoes, onion and garlic, and salt to taste. Simmer until potatoes are soft, then add half-and-half, sugar and black pepper to taste. The sugar will depend on how sweet the corn and potatoes were. I like a lot of pepper in this too, so I usually grind about a teaspoon of peppercorns. Simmer another few minutes after adding half-and-half, and it's done.
This is great served in homemade bread bowls. I'm dying to make a batch with purple sweet potatoes and multicolored sweet corn.
MB
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Post by johninfla on May 29, 2012 7:19:42 GMT -5
Corn looks great......I'm not quite there with my Hawaiian Super Sweet #9 but maybe this week!
John
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Post by johninfla on May 29, 2012 7:43:00 GMT -5
We froze about ten quarts of green beans, boiled down a five gallon bucket of tomatoes to three quarts of sauce, and dried about a quart of aguaymantos to make raisins......right now we have tomatoes in the dehydrator......mores in the garden if the rain stops.
John
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Post by circumspice on May 29, 2012 21:52:23 GMT -5
quick soapbox: I absolutely cannot stand people who turn loose livestock. If it were up to me, those folks would be flogged, made to sit in the stocks in the hot sun and be pelted with rotten fruit. If your livestock is sick, kill it, take it to the vet, but take responsibility for it. DO not drive it to the country and turn it loose. Because if I catch you, you will be very very sorry. AMEN SISTER! Hops up on the soapbox: I live about halfway between 2 major cities. What infuriates me are the city people who abandon 'inconvenient' pets, typically dogs & cats. The animals possibly have some minor behavioral problem or maybe the dog just got too big to feed... Whatever, they drive out into the 'country' and abandon the animal. It is heart wrenching to see some of the animals become emaciated because they can't fend for themselves. Or they get run over because they don't know to stay out of the road. But the very worst are the dogs that will pack up with other abandoned dogs & begin to prey on small livestock like goats & sheep. If you've ever seen a still living but eviscerated goat, you'll know what I'm talking about. A lot of city people think that ranchers & farmers who kill feral dogs & cats are heartless... I believe the real heartless monsters are the people who abandoned the animals in the first place.  Jumps down from soapbox. |
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Post by steev on May 29, 2012 23:52:36 GMT -5
There are people who are heartless/ stupid/ self-centered. I have less concern for them than for the people and animals they thoughtlessly victimize. May they perish and be gone, leaving the rest of us to florish in mutual respect and consideration, as children of the One Mother, Earth.
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Post by steev on May 31, 2012 0:11:08 GMT -5
Joke about it though I do, the pythons in Florida are just this problem. They get less docile as they grow and more expensive to keep, so dumbasses dump them in the boonies, being too lazy/chickenshit to be responsible, making their stupidity everyone else's problem. May their abandoned python come back to eat their yappy little rat-dog! Not that I have ill-will toward yappy little rat-dogs, but I might sound heartless if I hoped the abandoned pythons would come back to eat their children before they can leave a ring in the gene-pool.
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Post by mnjrutherford on May 31, 2012 8:04:32 GMT -5
HooWEE, them's some strong words and thoughts there Steevie boy! However, you echo my sentiments precisely.
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Post by davida on Jun 3, 2012 23:38:34 GMT -5
Isn't it amazing that our US society has reached the point that the only thing that most people can produce is money?? Homesteading skills were almost totally lost before this revival of interest. But still, most people and even most homesteaders (including me) lack so many skills. I observed three young Amish men last week while they weret installing a greenhouse and had the opportunity to visit with them. The leader was telling me how at his house he had installed a greenhouse and was raising and seling vegs, installed both a windmill and solar panels for electric and had a $ 12,000 bean press that he pressed oil from soybeans to run his tractor. And this young man was under 30 years of age and was selling his services to do all of these things along with commercial roofing. Very inspiring.
The satisfaction of using our hands to produce many things of true value needs to be restored. Sometimes as I am washing my hands to milk, I think, these hands are about to be used to do something to bring health and happiness to my family (I hand milk). Now if I had a community to barter my valuable goods for something worthwhile and not a piece of paper called money.
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