Showing posts with label Preserving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Preserving. 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.

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Much Needed Rain

June 21, 2011.

We finally got some rain after long hot (high around 100s˚F) and dry spell since around mid May.

The wet patio during the rain in the morning.
Baskets of fresh tomatoes and squashes are laying around
on the patio.


We've been busy making and canning tomato sauce.


© Burke's Garden Blog, 2011.

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Mint Jelly

June 27, 2010.

Jars of homemade mint jelly
with a bird's nest blown by wind gust.
It's a mixed between spearmint and peppermint.


The mint plants with sunflowers
on the background.

© Burke's Garden, 2010.

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.