Showing posts with label Fruits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fruits. Show all posts

Thursday, August 11, 2011

Preserving Apples

August 9, 2011.

We harvested two bushels of apple and preserved a bushel of them two ways, in light syrup and brandied. An apple peeler/corer/slicer was sure a big help! The green apples were surprisingly very sweet this year, they have been sour and used as cooking apples in the past years.




© Burke's Garden Blog, 2011.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Friday, September 10, 2010

Pear Bread

September, 10, 2010.

Pear bread with pear and fresh eggs from the farm.



© Burke's Garden, 2010.

Monday, September 6, 2010

Pear

September 6, 2010.

The pear tree has the same story as apple trees and these are this year's fruits. Some are ready to be picked.

Pear


Our favorite pear desserts, Pear Terrine,
with caramel and star anise. Good with vanilla ice cream.


© Burke's Garden, 2010.

Monday, June 21, 2010

Apple

June 21, 2010.

After being abandoned for years and pruned and fertilized these past 2-3 years, the two apple trees in the front yards finally bear fruits and they are loaded. They are cooking type of apple, too sour to be eaten raw. Squirrels love them so we have to race against them. They made good apple pie and apple tarts.

The cooking apples.


A squirrel bite on an apple.


One of the apple trees dotted with apples
with a rose bush on the foreground
earlier in the month.

© Burke's Garden, 2010.

Monday, October 5, 2009

Fall or Spring?

Are these trees tricked by the weather? A black walnut tree, on right, put out new leaves while the old leaves have fallen. A peach tree is having a blossom, bottom picture. Do they think it's spring time?

© Burke's Garden, 2009.

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Chipotle Project

The only thing that our garden produce this time is pepper. I thought that dehydrating would be the best way to preserve them as I did last year. This year I kick it up a notch. I smoke mixed pepper from the garden with mesquite wood in a Cajun smoker, then dehydrate them further in convection oven and then ground them for cooking. We didn't have jalapeno pepper this year, but we planted several other varieties.

Fresh green anaheim pepper.
The red ones smoke better than green.
All the green peppers I included was too burnt in the smoker.

The orange habanero pepper.
Only dare to include three of them.
They're supposed to be the hottest pepper on earth.

Tomato-shaped pimiento pepper,
and slender red serano pepper.

Baton-rouge red tabasco pepper.


The Chipotle - smoked chili pepper.
This is how they look after being smoked and dehydrated.

Tabasco pepper smoked.

Saturday, August 15, 2009

Pear and Fern

Got pears from our neighbor today. Our own pear tree was invaded by squirrels while we were gone, nothing left for us.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Henary 3 - Flowers and Fruits

July 15th, 2009.
Still from Henary Nursery's garden.

Tropical hibiscus.

Plumeria.

Probably a ginger plant. Nice red flower.

This was called "Lipstick Plant".


Portulaca.
I've never seen portulaca in this color of foliage before.

A trailing plant by the front wall fence.

Pomelo.

Jackfruits.

Monday, June 15, 2009

A Cactus Estate

A visit to our friend's place on Sunday. He wanted us to check his loaded plum tree and take a picture or two. His cactus plants caught my attention. He grows rows of cactus and some of them show new fresh growth and some have pretty orange-yellow blossoms. A Texas Lilac Vitex tree full of purple blooms stood on a corner by a white fence, make a nice backdrop.


Plums



Orange-yellow cactus blooms


Spiky new cactus growth on top of the old ones


Texas Lilac Vitex tree at the back, full of purple blooms


A row of cactus

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Strawberry


Strawberry is grouped under 'fragaria' genus and 'rosaceae' family. Other fruits under rosaceae family include the following.

Quoted from wikipedia:
The fruits of the Rosaceae come in varieties. The most common is a drupe (i.e fruits with skin, flesh, and stone) but there are many others. Applespearsquinces, and most other members of the Maloideae are pomes, but some are capsules such as inLindleya. The fruit of a strawberry is an achene held by a red ripe peg. Pomes and the strawberry are false fruits, while drupes are true fruits. Most fruits of the family are edible and are very important in flavoring such as strawberriescherries and applesAlmonds are raised for their stones which are used as smoked or salted nuts.[dubious ] Apples and strawberries are hybrids of different species in the same genus.

The Garden Strawberry was first bred in Europe in the early 18th century via an accidental cross of Fragaria virginiana from eastern North America, which was noted for its flavor, and Fragaria chiloensis from Chile, which was noted for its large size.


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