Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw
Oh my I have never seen a beetroot! Here our beets are all bright red and pickled. How do you cook a beetroot! Fresh beets are like rutabaga (which we call swede) but smaller and softer, dark purple/black in colour. You boil them, then peel them and eat them fresh, or pickle them. The little ones we call baby beets, but we tend to let them grow to about orange size. Is it like a turnip or a rutabega?? and are your peas what we call english peas that you can only get here canned? Little green round balls?? Yes, that's the ones. Sweet and crispy when fresh, not at all like the canned ones. We mostly eat them raw in salads as they are not that different from frozen ones when you cook them. The pods and shoots are lovely too. I wonder why they don't grow here. and are your beans like green beans in a can or do you shell them. We grow French beans, which are like your canned green beans, runner beans, which you eat the whole pod sliced up while the beans inside are immature (the beans are pink and black!) and broad beans which are podded and sort of greyish green. are shelled. Here ripe now is watermelon and cantalope, okra, peaches (best are from Chilton Co. Alabama NOT Georgia)tomatoes and yellow summer squash is just going out. Our squash doesn't come in until mid to late August, also courgettes (zucchini) and marrows (sort of huge zucchini). They do grow some sorts of melon and a few peaches in the south of england, but not commecially. We also grow rhubarb, broccoli, red cabbage, savoy cabbage, apples, pears and cherries. Best of all are the blackberries in September, lush, juicy, sweet and free everywhere in the hedgerows. Perfect with homegrown apples. Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk ---
Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:03:47 -, you wrote: We poor people in th UK are having home grown potatoes, peas, beans, beetroot, radish and cucumber and lettuce. The tomatoes aren't ready yet. Hey, don't forget the carrots, strawberries, raspberries and blackcurrants! ; ) Mic Mic (Michelle) Rushen --- Solva Icelandic Horses and DeMeulenkamp Sweet Itch Rugs: www.solva-icelandics.co.uk ---
Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw
I have never seen a beetroot! Here our beets are all bright red and pickled. How do you cook a beetroot! Is it like a turnip or a rutabega?? and are your peas what we call english peas that you can only get here canned? Little green round balls?? I wonder why they don't grow here. and are your beans like green beans in a can or do you shell them. here we have pole beans and runner beans that we eat green in their shells, the pods and all, cooked with bacon of course, cant cook any vegetable in the south without hog fat in it, and then like the field peas or zipper peas or butter beans etc, those are shelled. Here ripe now is watermelon and cantalope, okra, peaches (best are from Chilton Co. Alabama NOT Georgia)tomatoes and yellow summer squash is just going out. Janice-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw
we dont have raspberries, we have blueberries, should be blooming soon, and blackberries, they make the yellow flies come in. We have strawberries almost all year round from somewhere in fla, and no currants tho I did buy some imported in the store once and they were amazing. We have some native grapes here we call scuppernong and muscadine, slip skins they are called, and they are so good! Janice-- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw
we dont have raspberries Oregon has a wonderful climate for all kinds of berries, both domestic and wild. We ride on narrow trails lined with both blackberries and black cap raspberries. Three days ago, we commented on the fact that the bears didn't seem to have found the berries. Today in the same spot the berry bushes were all wallowed down and there was a giant pile of blue bear poop. The berries have been discovered and declared ripe. Nancy
Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw
Sue, my momma had a peach tree for years and it always just grew one or two peaches. then an old man walking by told her if she will hang a bar of soap in a nylon stocking and tie it in the tree it will make peaches. the next year it was so full of peaches a branch broke. maybe something in the soap killed some aphids or aomething?? we could never figure it out. Janice -- even good horses have bad days sometimes.
