This piggie has cauliflower ears.. must be all that rugby out in the field.
So, how many days until the end of September? We have run into a problem I did not foresee. We have eaten all the greens, there are no more tasty greens in the garden at the moment. The kale is decimated, it will come back though but not today. And as I am only eating out of the garden for all of September, and the bugs ate all the beans and no running to the freezer for a bag of peas, I am going to have to get imaginative. Scurvy looms. The new greens are still in the formative stage in the garden. My staggered planting staggered to a halt! oops.
I can start picking baby greens from this lettuce patch in a week or so. But not yet. I may have to think about turning celery into a vegetable instead of just using it for stock. I have plenty of celery. Mum used to make a celery soup when we were kids. I might try to make that today.
Old barn flock!
Young barn Flock. Son of the Son of Neanderthal Man otherwise known as Bob has stolen one of my Peghorn Leghorns. Cheeky Bloody Rooster.
Egoli has turned into quite the hunter. Tiba the other marmalade cat left me and went to live with the neighbours. They went fishing last week and I was feeding their cat, a good mile away, when Tiba strolled in. Snap!
Boo has learnt to jump the barn gates. I am going to show him this picture when he is older just to embarress him. Talk about struggle!
Blueberry pound cake made with honey.
Dinner.
The Granny Smiths are small but plentiful. They will take a while to pick but we will make a good apple cider from this tree and a few others in the area. Plus today I will make another apple pie. Apple pie keeps the scurvy away you know! And the old people here used to fry apples as a side dish, I can see why now.
Good morning. I hope you are all going to have a lovely day.
your friend on the farm, celi
c
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88 responses to “So, How Many Days are there in September?”
Funny I was looking for something different to do with apples not a week or so ago… here’s a link or two…
http://savorysweetlife.com/2009/10/cranberry-apple-crisp-recipe/
http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/03/apple-fritters/
Don’t know about all the ingredients being off the farmy but damn the fritters were good…
Oh apple fritters! I love apple fritters thank you for the reminder! c
I love Celery Soup! This is a good one I have tried: http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/recipes/2544
With the potatoes it is quite hearty and filling too.
At least you are learning what needs to be changed/improved in your garden for when this becomes longer than a month challenge. You could also start eating dandelion leaves I suppose, although I have never really fancied them myself. I think it stems from a childhood ‘myth’ – we were told if you picked dandelions you would wet the bed! Have no idea where this came from, but every kid in our neighborhood knew this LOL
probably made up by a kid who was sick of pickng them! We eat them in salads in the spring, I have not tried them at this time of year but I may start very soon! morning Lyn.. c
The French name for dandelion is “piissenlit” which translates as “wet the bed” because dandelions are a diuretic.
Surely the green capsicums could be classed as a green vegetable?.
Yes that is true, well done vicki, c
And they are higher in vitamin C than some fruits too! No scurvy in your foreseeable future, Celi! 😀
Trouble is of course (just quietly) i don’t really like them, but i will eat them just for you.. c
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I make a great sauce with them, as I find them indigestible raw.
Apples to the rescue – who’d have thought it? Do you have any edible weeds about? I ask because we are in the midst of a slight purslane problem, but they’re pretty good eating. But it’s not a good time to look for tender greens, I guess. Any sweet potatoes about? I’ve come to enjoy their leaves (and they are some of the few I have available in the garden at the moment).
Kaya loves your pig photos. He makes a little noise when I show them to him that sounds a bit like oink – he likes to speak in sound effects.
Little oink baby! No sweet potatoes grown this year because I forgot! However i am on my way to making a proper list now, so maybe that will help! c
Don’t forget to order the heirloom Bianca Rose eggplants for next spring! Much better than the heirloom Black Beauty!!! Mild and flowery flavor! No bitterness! No salting! I use these for my eggplant parmesan and ratatouille! Excellent! I read my garden catalogs like novels! LOL 🙂 I love your pig’s ears!!! So cute! 🙂 I love this time of the year the most! I love harvest and the beginning of winter! Comfy cozy!
Thank you Mere, i shall add those to my list. c
Oh, yes, apples fried in butter with brown sugar and cinnamon. Yum.
Except without the brown sugar and cinnamon, that sounds like dessert to me. I have not caught the taste for cinnamon and sugar is not on the september list. Cinnamon in just about everything is quite an American thing. I wonder when it started .. how did cinnamon become such a sommon spice here. The Matriarch just fries them in butter and they really are quite good. Though still a little strange for me. But John puts on his hang dog face and goes for the spice rack to sprinkle them in cinnamon. He even puts cinnamon on toast!! c
I love cinnamon toast! I’m glad America is full of cinnamon! So good!
Mmmmmm….delicious!!! 🙂 Hey we’re neighbors! ND here!
Morning, c! Sliced those apple vertically so you get a pretty star-seedy pattern in the middle. They’ll also fry up more evenly if you cut them that direction. I always fry up some apples when we’re up to our armpits in them. I don’t bother with sugar (can’t as P is diabetic); they’re plenty sweet enough when fried in butter which caramelizes them slightly. I adore Boo. And Ton. Happy Wednesday, C!
That is how we do them too, but I have not sliced straight through like that before, I will do it next time though! c
You get a pretty star in the middle. Just pop the seeds out, if you worry about them.
I don’t mind the seeds, everyone screeches that they are poisonous but I am not poisoned yet!! c
Same here. Everyone gasps OMG like it is rat poison. P and I have both eaten them since we were kids. Of course we eat the whole apple, not just a handful of seeds. 😉
exactly! c
With all the pectin in the seeds you can set your own internal preserves
I use Agave syrup! Very low on the glycemic index! Slow burning sugar. Not sure if it is safe for a diabetic. But it is worth checking with the MD! 🙂
Agave syrup is not safe for diabetics. It goes “on hold” so to speak and then dumps a large carb load on us. 😦
So many lessons being learnt this September with you only eating from the garden Celi. I have been planning a new veggie garden here at home so have been taking valuable points from your posts about staggered planting and what to plant more of. Here’s hoping I can get things under way soon. Have a beautiful happy farmy day.
🙂 Mandy xo
Oh yes, your garden will be starting to revive.. happy early spring days! c
Fried apples! I was raised on these and through-out my lifetime I have used the odd apples up by frying them to eat with dinner. If you prepare them I hope you enjoy.
We will be having them tonight, and tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow! c
Excellent with pork chops or pork roast! Mmmmm….LOL 🙂
It’s turned nippy here over the last week or so; I find the garden gets a renewed growth spurt when that happens. Hoping your garden gets it too!
My basil has begun to spring forth again which is lovely.. but even my fourth planting of zuchinni has given up the ghost, those little yellow insects are even eating the fruit as it is set. We are having such a time with insects this year, the pigs are eating well though.
Due to the extreme dryness this year…we have been plagued by grasshoppers, crickets and picnic bugs…misery… The picnic bugs burrow into the tomatoes, corn, and melons….and they were even in my cherries! I hate these miserable destructive little critters…I set up traps for them, but the numbers were incredible! For the potato bugs I plant marigolds and I never have them anymore. What a battle! 😦
AND my tomatoes were full of them! Good thing I planted 40 plants! Some for them and some for us! Yikes!
I am going to plant marigolds next year.. c
There your answer for greens basil fritters
basil fritters! goodness! c
do you have onions? we used to stir up some sauteed onions and celery as a side dish quite often. I also love celery diced with apples mixed in some yogurt. Celery and salsa is great too.
To be honest – I was a picky vegetable person growing up – and celery was one thing I would eat in excess. It’s all about the crunch for me.
Horribly, really horribly, all my onions have been used up. There are a few spring onions planted in the fall garden but NEXT YEAR I am planting 365 onions! My cooking is miserable without onions. c
My favorite onion is the Cipollini. Keeps really well and is delicious! Cipollini onions are small (around 1 to 3 inches wide) with a flat looking shape. They are shaped like a disk and great for roasting and cooking, such as on a pizza! They are also good cut into thin strips for salads and on sandwiches. They slice easily and neatly. Unlike most garden variety onions cipollini’s do not easily fall apart when sliced and are mild tasting and sweet! Better than the high caloric caramelized typical garden variety onions. I love them as much if not more than the Vidalias! 🙂
thank you.. c
In England, my most favourite program to watch is Gardeners World and especially to watch the host Monty Don walk thru his garden. I think he’s taken gardening to an art form. he grows every kind of vegetable and fruit imaginable and all year long (greenhouses) and I often think, “that’s it, I’m moving to the country and setting up a garden like Long Meadow.” Then you can just go out and get all the supper you like plus enough flowers to absolutely set off allergies across two states! By the way, he has a silly and beautiful golden retriever names Nigel, who balances apples on his nose until he gets permission to snaffle them up. Morning C, not sure why I’m telling you this…lol. .
Nothing like a golden!!!! They smile all the time! Always happy! I smiled the golden smile everyday too! She put my life on the upside from the time I opened my eyes in the morning til I closed them at night. Mine could toss them right back at you! She was a real fun loving girl! Miss her terribly! I am glad you mentioned Nigel! I will look for Monty Don and Nigel online! 🙂
Maisy was my golden girl. 🙂
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What a beautiful cat – and an ungraceful Boo!! I think that he needs more lessons from Ton Ton!
Christine
Braised celery – simple but oh so good and even better with some butter or grated cheese and breadcrumbs then under the grill. WIll have to send you tomatoes (!) to ward off scurvy! Was reading the comments about apples, I have always eaten the seeds, blissfully ignorant that I was risking my life. Someone did tell me in primary school that if you ate cabbage or the seeds of apples, a tree would grow out of you head – which of course made me eat them more as I thought it would be quite novel to have a tree growing on top of my bonce….never happened though, much to my disappointment 😦
Love the photo of the old tools! And that apple tree: wow! I made spaghetti sauce from my own tomatoes the other day – it felt so good to be able to do that!
Me too! It’s delicious! I am making a lobster tomato sauce Sunday! Serving it over pasta! Mmmm….makes me feel so happy to squirrel away my fruits and veggies! We had fog yesterday…so you know what that means….snow in middle of December! Just in time for Christmas!
Greens: fruit will keep the scurvy at bay. Otherwise: dandelion leaf salad; nettle soup – green enough for you? Or Waldorf salad: chopped celery, apple and nuts with mayonnaise – gorgeous, and no need to cook. Or a gratin of slices of pepper, small chunks of celery, potato, bechamel or (preferably) cream etc, topped with grated cheese, baked in the oven.
Love those pix of Boo and old cauliflower ear piggy.
Love,
ViV