Homegrown Meals, No Sugar Strawberry Jam

Homegrown meals, this isn't everything we've eaten through the week, since mealtimes are the busiest times.

Here's a meal with homegrown Zukes, Komatsuna, Carrots and Shungiku. The fried smelt is in potato starch batter, that was store-bought.

Bibimbap without the seasoned ground turkey

(it wasn't finished in time for this pic and I was really hungry)

"Potato" Salad with HG Potatoes, Sun-chokes, Carrots, Cucumbers. Also, eggs from Farmer's Market, and store-bought mayo.  The Sun-chokes aren't to obtrusive if eaten this way.

No Sugar Jam with Stevia and pectin

Meals from the Garden

Garden Stir-Fry with HG(Home Grown) Carrots, Yu Choi and Komatsuna. Farmer's Market bought items: Cabbage and Zucchini. Canned item: Straw Mushroom.

HG New Zealand Spinach quickly blanched. We eat this with a bit of soy-sauce. Our son eats it like if you were to put a plate of french fries out in front of him, with both hands stuffing his face!

Been busy! More Strawberry Jam canning, Komatsuna pickling, and seed starting some onion and more Lupini beans.

HG Seri in the rice, HG Garlic Chives, Carrots and Sun-chokes in the stir-fry

Canning jars are piling up! Next to them are some dried herbs

Garden Hot Pot with Komatsuna, Carrots, Green Onion, Edible Chrysanthemum and NZ Spinach. Store bought items include Shiitake mushrooms and White Button mushrooms. Organic Chicken & Wild-Caught Salmon to flavor the broth as well.

Meals from the Garden

Veggie Stir-fry with home grown Chinese Chives and Carrots

Veggie soup with home grown carrots and celery. Kolrabi and bulb onions bought at the farmer's market, and organic tomato paste bought from a Co-Op. Oh, one store bought item: mushrooms

More strawberries! This is one day's worth of pickings.

My jam jar collection

Curry flavored veggies with chicken. Home grown celery, carrots and sunchokes along with cauliflower from the farmer's market.

Preserving and Meals

OK, so I wasn't the only one that was experiencing the pics not showing up.  It's a glitch between Picasa's "Blog This" and Blogger.  I figured out a work-around, although it's more tedious.

Here, I'm starting a batch of strawberry jam, the colors are sooo vibrant!

Here's a batch for one day

Dinner: It's taco night! Homegrown cilantro in the guacamole and garnishing the ground turkey, lettuce on the side and homegrown canned tomatoes in the ground turkey. The guacamole is made from gifted local avocados. Dessert; , strawberries... Yummy!

A lovely after-school snack: Fresh Strawberries and canned Loquats on home-made soy-yogurt.

Harvest Updates

Seemingly endless amounts of Mandarins and Guavas right now.

Still getting strawberries, in DECEMBER!!

Yams

yummy Lettuce

More lettuce, some bit of green beans and our first Meyer Lemons form our tiny tree!

Guavas are raining now

tiny carrots I thinned out

More guavas, these went to my sister

another day of strawberries, perfect for our homemade soy yogurt

attempting to make satsuma mandarine (marmalade) jam

finished jars of Satsuma  and Guava jam

Homegrown Meals

Steamed Kabocha pumpkin

Spaghetti Sauce with all kinds of garden veggies

Okra..this is cooked. We enjoy it with some gluten-free soy-sauce and some bonito flakes

Dried Daikon being pickled as "Fukujinzuke"

Green Beans blanched for snacking

Soy yogurt, fozen HG Loquats, gifted Peaches in this "gelato".

Green and Red Tomatoes about to be processed

Here they are, all done. Also some refrigerator Fig Jam!

Home Grown Meals

I canned a dozen pints of Loquats on Thursday

Home Grown Dinner Salad with Loquats

Loquats and Strawberries for my homemade yogurt

It's Jammin' Time!

I know it's not much but, I thought I'd preserve a bit of Strawberry goodness for later.

Here's the "before" pic.

Here's the "after" pic

Eating a sample....mmm! (shared this with my son)

Guava Jam

Persimmon Jam

Peeling the mandarins for canning

caught in doing the grunt work

the finished mandarins, many of them went as gifts for Christmas

Harvests and Canning

The rains caused lots of guavas to crack their tender skins, so off they came from the tree. Some went to neighbors as gifts and others ended up in preserves.