Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw

2008-07-19 Thread Mic Rushen
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

Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw

2008-07-18 Thread Mic Rushen
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)

Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw

2008-07-18 Thread Janice McDonald
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

Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw

2008-07-18 Thread Janice McDonald
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

Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw

2008-07-18 Thread Nancy Sturm
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

Re: [IceHorses] Re: OT-whats for supper granpaw

2008-07-18 Thread Janice McDonald
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