So we've been doing a fairly good job with preserving our harvest. We pulled our carrots, and blanched and froze those. Same with the soy beans. This weekend we canned 13 pints of pickled peppers, and 7 pints of salsa, this time milder, we didn't include as many fish peppers.
As for eating fresh, our giant 6.5 pound zucchini turned into 2 loaves of zucchini bread, and a chocolate zucchini cake.
This blog is about a suburban couple trying to live a more sustainable life. It started with a few pots of tomatoes in the front yard and has grown to 5 chickens, a huge vegetable garden, berry patches, a fruit orchard, canning, beer brewing, and more!
Monday, August 20, 2012
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Dried Beans
So we let all the beans on the Italian Rose bean plants dry, to store as dried beans. Once the pods changed from their bright red and green color to brown and crackly, we pulled them off. We removed the beans by hand, and then put into an uncovered bowl to further dry. In a week or so we'll seal them up in an airtight jar.
As you can see, the beans are white with red spots. But a few beans were the inverse, being red with white spots.
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