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Rhubarb has a lovely sour taste - so it is off-set quite nicely by the vanilla.
I'd send you a jar ... but I don;t think it will survive the journey.
I'd trade it for Barb's peach jelly. :)

Are these this year's peaches already?
 
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I am posting today's harvest. 1.5 kilos of strawberries, 1.2 kilos of new potatoes, half a pound of mange-touts and some wet garlic. That's dinner pretty much sorted out!

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glo said:
I am posting today's harvest. 1.5 kilos of strawberries, 1.2 kilos of new potatoes, half a pound of mange-touts and some wet garlic. That's dinner pretty much sorted out!
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Looks like a good harvest. In sha Allah, my wife will cook fresh squash, black-eyed peas, and potatoes from our garden for dinner tonight.
 
I love to work outside in my Garden! I enjoy seeing all of the pictures that everyone is posting!

Glo, those strawberries look absolutely delicious! They would go nicely in my homemade strawberry preserves!

In my garden I have; Lettuce, Kale and Chard, Green Onions, Summer Squash, Tomatoes, Green Beans, Watermelon, Okra, Red Potatoes and Strawberries.

I also have a variety of flowers; Rudbeckias, Irises, Peonies, Roses, Daylilies, and Sunflowers!
 
While picking peas today the Purple Martins were agitated and some seemed to want me to leave as they would fly at me real fast pulling up at the last second. It reminded me the 'The Birds' by Alfred Hitchcock.
 
^ I like the cheery whistley tune. LOL
I never understood WHY the birds suddenly stopped attacking in the end. Was it ever explained?

I hope your purple martins are nothing like this, Mustafa!
 
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I hope your purple martins are nothing like this, Mustafa!
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No, I wasn't terrorized by them LOL, but I found it odd. Maybe it was their payback for us checking on their babies. For some reason they must have seen me as a threat all of a sudden, or maybe they were just playing a game with me.
 
A pan of peaches from our tree that my wife used to make peach jam and homemade ice cream.



Velvet Queen sunflower.


Okra bloom.


Okra


Unripe tomatoes.
 
Beautiful pictures! Those peaches look very tasty! :)

Our tomatoes are only just flowering ...
 
Praise be to God, yes, the peaches were quite good. We had peas, sliced cucumbers and fried okra all from the garden for dinner.
 
The squash sitting behind the peaches looks yummy also!

I wonder how squash-peach ice cream would taste? ^o)
 
On Iron Chef once they talked about beef ice cream. I wouldn't be that brave, but the squash-peach combo doesn't sound too bad.
 
Oh yeah! I think I know exactly which episode you are talking about +o(

Squash is yummy regardless, and it can be used in a variety of desserts not just for dinner :P

I use squash or zucchini in just about everything I bake, it adds so much flavor and makes it so moist (if you are doing a bread/cake).
 
What to do with strawberries?

This year is the first year when we have more strawberries than we can simply eat. We are picking over a pound of strawberries every day and have picked more than 6 kg since the beginning of the season!

We had strawberries just on their own, with vanilla ice-cream and as a Pavlova. We have made strawberry ice-cream and strawberry jam. Tomorrow I will make a strawberry flan and either more jam or some strawberry syrup/cordial.

Any other ideas?
We don't have much freezer space.
 
We thought about that.

My husband built a fruit dryer last year and we have successfully dried apples and mushrooms in it. We thought that strawberries would contain A LOT of water and weren't sure how nice they would be dry.

Perhaps we'll give it a go. It's certainly a good way of preserving (and storing) fruit!
 
glo said:
We thought about that.

My husband built a fruit dryer last year and we have successfully dried apples and mushrooms in it. We thought that strawberries would contain A LOT of water and weren't sure how nice they would be dry.

Perhaps we'll give it a go. It's certainly a good way of preserving (and storing) fruit!
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You could always eat them over your cereal? If you happen to be a cereal person. Or you could make your own strawberry shortcake, strawberry muffins, strawberry parfait, strawberry jello, chocolate covered strawberries, strawberry french stuffed toast?

LOL I did not realize all of the things that could be done with strawberries! :)
 

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