Thursday, April 27, 2006
garden 13
Thirteen things we grew in the garden when I was a kid:
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Salting watermelon is not so unusual. I've tried it, and I wasn't impressed. Sugaring radishes and tomatoes . . . now that's different.
We grew corn,tomatoes, and radishes. In Southern Cal we could have grown anything we liked. We also had a lemon tree and a guava tree. Boy, that guava tree smelled! We had a duck that loved to eat the fallen fruit.
I was also once traumatized by a cantaloupe, but that's another story.
We grew corn,tomatoes, and radishes. In Southern Cal we could have grown anything we liked. We also had a lemon tree and a guava tree. Boy, that guava tree smelled! We had a duck that loved to eat the fallen fruit.
I was also once traumatized by a cantaloupe, but that's another story.
Your list reminds me of being a kid and gardening with my grandpop. He grew everything listed, plus eggplants, yellow squash, and some kind of bean that required poles and wires so that it could creep upward like ivy. And potatoes, Silver Queen corn, and cabbage. We ate zucchini and squash prepared in a variety of ways, including your fried recipe, plus zucchini grated fine and turned into zucchini cakes.
Late summer and early fall, my grandmother would be making jelly, canning, freezing, and pickling like crazy. After she finished, grandpop would make a monumental mess while making sauerkraut, which she would can in Mason jars and only he would eat.
Late summer and early fall, my grandmother would be making jelly, canning, freezing, and pickling like crazy. After she finished, grandpop would make a monumental mess while making sauerkraut, which she would can in Mason jars and only he would eat.
Traumatized by a cantaloupe? My imagination's working overtime on that one.
JMC, it was a walk down memory lane for me, too. Somehow, when I'm remembering, all that gardening doesn't seem so hard.
How do you make sauerkraut, anyway?
JMC, it was a walk down memory lane for me, too. Somehow, when I'm remembering, all that gardening doesn't seem so hard.
How do you make sauerkraut, anyway?
Gardening is so much easier in memory, isn't it? I hated weeding that garden as a kid, but I don't remember that now, I remember spending time with grandpop and eating fresh peas out of the pod.
I think sauerkraut is basically just pickled cabbage. I remember lots of shredded cabbage, some carrots, salt and sugar dissolved in vinegar. There were probably other spices mixed in, but mostly I remember the overwhelming sweet & sour smell, and the fact that grandpop used every bowl in the kitchen in his preparations, when probably one or two would've been enough.
If you are interested in the recipe, email me at jmcarr2001 at yahoo dot com. I'll check with my grandmother to see if my grandfather ever wrote his recipe down.
I think sauerkraut is basically just pickled cabbage. I remember lots of shredded cabbage, some carrots, salt and sugar dissolved in vinegar. There were probably other spices mixed in, but mostly I remember the overwhelming sweet & sour smell, and the fact that grandpop used every bowl in the kitchen in his preparations, when probably one or two would've been enough.
If you are interested in the recipe, email me at jmcarr2001 at yahoo dot com. I'll check with my grandmother to see if my grandfather ever wrote his recipe down.
How was I always traumatized by food? By my imperious father insisting I eat it and FINISH IT. But cantaloupe made my throat itch (like bananas, like carrots, like raw nuts -- an allergy, perhaps).
Nowadays, I love the stuff.
Nowadays, I love the stuff.
Living in Germany, I find myself fascinated by sauerkraut. You don't actually find much in the stores, and, at least here in the Pfalz, it's rare to find it in restaurants. My impression is that it's generally made from scratch, and that buying it in a can is akin to having Hostess cupcakes at a kid's birthday party: considered rather lazy & sad. Unfortunately, my German mother-in-law is of the opinion that food comes in cans and boxes, so she's no help.
Doug, oh, yes, I can relate. I vividly remember one evening when we had 'chop suey' with chow mein noodles on top. I was full, but I wasn't allowed to leave the table until my plate was empty. Chow mein noodles, when soggy, look remarkably like worms. I must have sat there for an hour.
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Doug, oh, yes, I can relate. I vividly remember one evening when we had 'chop suey' with chow mein noodles on top. I was full, but I wasn't allowed to leave the table until my plate was empty. Chow mein noodles, when soggy, look remarkably like worms. I must have sat there for an hour.
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