Hi, friends!
This week my meal prep included mashing the last of my sweet potatoes from the garden. This was the first year I’ve tried potatoes of any kind, and winner winner potatoes dinner. Easy and good yield for the 3 slips that survived. I’m tempted to convert a small hill that faces east and gets somewhat decent sun to my “potato vine hill” this year.
I grew the O’Henry sweet potato variety. It’s a white potato on the inside but shaped and tastes like a sweet potato. Boils and mashes like a yukon gold, really a gem of a spud. I had them in Alabama but haven’t been able to find them since moving home in my late 20s. As good as I remembered!
Anyways, what’s on your mind recently that’s super seasonal? I enjoy tangelos and they’re really best in January when the Florida crop comes in.
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am i the only meat eater here…yes
is that nearly a kg of meat…yes
is there going to be leftovers?
oh fuck no
That looks amazing!
Stuffed pork dishes are delicious!
I really want to make a porchetta but I don’t have an easy source of pork belly.
Persimmons are in season now, and those are fantastic once they fully ripen.
The native ones that have to freeze and thaw to be edible? Or the yummy Japanese ones?
I’ve never seen the American ones for sale, just the Asian ones. There are a bunch available right now.
Yep, I got a bag of fuyu persimmons in the fridge right now.
I’d see native ones at the farmers markets, but not in stores here.
We had so many apples left on the tree that we just harvested before the raccoons & deer ate them. Wife has them on the dehydrator to make apple chips.
How much do they shrink down? What’s the weight of chips you get from say a dozen apples?
They were small dense apples to begin with so didn’t shrink much. I am not a big apple fan so can’t tell you too much more info. I’ve made apple liquor w/ previous harvests & she makes apple crisps & jelly which is great but the chips are not my thing. Too healthy for me!
Sounds like you need to try to make apple pie ice cream? Chop up the crisps and add caramel to an ice cream maker???
That sounds delicious!
We put our garlic, kale, and broccoli rabe in earlier in the fall. Despite the freezing weather, they seem to be doing something. This is our first serious garden.
I’m the only big rabe fan in my family, but if I could grow that it would be amazing.
We grew a golden potato variety — golden nugget — that did fairly well here. I know, potatoes growing in Idaho, but it’s pretty amusing how often home gardeners don’t have great success with them here.
I want to set up a (raised) bed for sweet potatoes or yams next year. Maybe parsnips?
I used a really big planter for one of the slips and it was lovely how the sweet potato vines draped over and around it!
That’s a great idea, and I’ll bet I can get some old wine barrel planters out here that would work well for that.