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. Below is a list of recipes you can use to take advantage of produce while it is in season.
Make Soup Stock
With Autumn approaching 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 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
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 Peppers in the Oven
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- Dry Mushrooms
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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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