Garden Fresh Recipes
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Recipes to Use the Bountiful Harvest from Your Garden
Eating seasonally & locally is beneficial to your health and the environment. It is more economical because it reduces the cost of transporting and storing food. Cutting down on transporting food reduces pollution. There is nothing more local than produce from your own garden, or from a local farmer. Here are some fresh garden recipes you can use to take advantage of produce while it is in season.
Garden Salsas
* 8 tomatoes, diced* 1 cup of onion, diced
* 1 bell pepper, with seeds removed and diced
* 1/8 Cup or small bunch of cilantro, chopped
* 3 clove of garlic finely minced
* 1 jalapeno or serrano pepper, with seeds removed and diced
* 2 Tablespoon of fresh lime juice
* salt and pepper to taste
Dice the vegetables above. Combine all, including the juices, in a bowl. Serve immediately, or may be refrigerated up to 5 days.
Cucumbers, Cucumbers, and More Cumumbers
It is gardening season and you have cucumbers coming out of your ears. What do you do? Make Pickles! Sweet Pickle Relish
Sweet pickle relish is useful in potato and pasta salads, or great on top of a hot dog. This summer you can use fresh cucumbers from your garden to create your own pickle relish. Stock up and have a pantry full all year!How to Make Sweet Pickle Relish
EASY Refrigerator Pickles
This is a quick and easy recipe to make pickles with your garden cucumbers. Simply mix the ingredients together. No canning and no cooking required with this recipe!How to Make Easy Refrigerator Pickles
Easy Dill Pickles for Canning
Fresh cucumbers from your garden can also be used to make dill pickles. Throughout the year you will have pickles to garnish burgers and other meals from your fresh garden cucumbers.How to Make Dill Pickles
Making Sauce from Foraged Berries
Fresh Recipes for June and July
In June and July wild berries are abundant in the midwest. Common types of wild berries are raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, dewberries and gooseberries. All of these can be used to make fresh sauce. The sauce can be canned for later or used immediately as a topping for deserts, baked goods, or in pies and cobblers. I can mine as "jam" and when my kids want fruit syrup, I simply warm it and pour it over pancakes. It can also be used over ice cream, cheese cake and so many other uses. Berry sauce is very versatile. Here is a recipe specifically for wild blackberries:Harvesting Blackberries and Making Fresh Blackberry Sauce
Drying Recipes for Preservation
- Dry STRAWBERRIES!
- Dried strawberries can be used on cereals, oatmeals, in smoothies and recipes throughout the year. If you have strawberries in your garden, or you stock up on fresh berries at a farmers market or grocery store each summer, this recipe will provide you with dried strawberries throughout the year.
- Dehydrate, or Dry, APPLES!
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- Dehydrate, or Dry, APRICOTS!
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- How to Air Dry Peppers by Hanging Them
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- Dry Mushrooms
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Favorite Miscellaneous Recipes
Grandma's old standby for using up the left-overs in the refrigerator each week. My favorite and also a favorite of my children. :)
How to Make Slop
How to Make Slop
Make Soup Stock
When autumn approaches, it is a wonderful time to think about soups. Making soup stock from scratch can heal the body and the soul on a cold winter day.How to Make Soup Stock
How to Dry Peppers
Freezing Foods from the Garden
Recipes!
Freezing is the best way to preserve the nutritional value in food. It preserves better than dehydrating or canning. However, dehydrating rivals freezing in that it does not require energy to maintain the food after preserving it as freezing does.
- Freezing Cherries
- Recipe for preserving cherries in the freezer. They must be syrup packed if they are sweet cherries.
- Freezer Salsa
- More ways to use up your tomatoes. Freezing doesn't require vinegar lemon/lime juice.
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TransplantedSoul
Feb 22, 2012 @ 6:39 pm | delete
- Nothing tastes better than stuff you've grown yourself. You know what goes into it!
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Vallygems1
Dec 22, 2011 @ 3:30 am | delete
- Great Lens
Warm Regards
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SereneSea Sep 3, 2011 @ 1:01 pm | delete
- I can feel the aroma of the garden herbs and strawberries, very refreshing.
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