November 5
Bless this weather. It's been a really comfortable working environment and great for the gardens also, with nothing but minimal light frost. We presently have some help on the farm and what a difference it makes, things have moved along nicely this week.
This week, the rest of the garlic was planted, all greenhouse peppers were removed for the last of the greenhouse spinach, lots of greenhouse work was completed, our small winter lettuce house was planted and a good amount of winter clean up was done.
In your baskets this week:
Chez Nous Salad Mix
Mustard Greens
Jalapeno Peppers
Garlic Slivers ( big cloves get planted and small cloves are great for cooking)
Kohlrabi
Carrots
Extra Greens: Chez Nous Mix and Kale
We also dug into the carrots this week. We are still waiting for a few more sweetening treatments from frost but a little thinning didn't hurt. What beautiful carrots!
So more hot peppers in the baskets. It's a blend of Green Jalapeño and Green Serrano. They are of varied size as they were the final harvest of the outdoor Hot Pepper House. Many recipes only call for small amounts of Jalapeños and depending on your heat level you may want to freeze a bit.You can freeze them whole and then chop them partly frozen when your ready or just chop them all now and freeze on a flat surface then pop into a freezer bag.
However, they do keep for quite a while in the fridge and they do taste so nice and fresh chopped and added to dish raw.
Here are a few, not so common recipes, on my list to try. I am especially excited about the deep dish pizza as it also gives recipes for some vegan cheese, sounds like quite a long recipe but it can easily be adapted to use dairy! And the corn Dip with a side of salsa sounds relish!
corn and Jalapeno Dip
Garlic Jalapeno Pasta
Deep Dish Jalapeño Pie
Basil Jalapeno Corn fritters
And last here's a very non vegan recipe! Jalapeño Cheeseburger Pasta
Some crazy big spinach in the greenhouse and chopped up in your salad mix.
Bless this weather. It's been a really comfortable working environment and great for the gardens also, with nothing but minimal light frost. We presently have some help on the farm and what a difference it makes, things have moved along nicely this week.
This week, the rest of the garlic was planted, all greenhouse peppers were removed for the last of the greenhouse spinach, lots of greenhouse work was completed, our small winter lettuce house was planted and a good amount of winter clean up was done.
In your baskets this week:
Chez Nous Salad Mix
Mustard Greens
Jalapeno Peppers
Garlic Slivers ( big cloves get planted and small cloves are great for cooking)
Kohlrabi
Carrots
Extra Greens: Chez Nous Mix and Kale
We also dug into the carrots this week. We are still waiting for a few more sweetening treatments from frost but a little thinning didn't hurt. What beautiful carrots!
So more hot peppers in the baskets. It's a blend of Green Jalapeño and Green Serrano. They are of varied size as they were the final harvest of the outdoor Hot Pepper House. Many recipes only call for small amounts of Jalapeños and depending on your heat level you may want to freeze a bit.You can freeze them whole and then chop them partly frozen when your ready or just chop them all now and freeze on a flat surface then pop into a freezer bag.
However, they do keep for quite a while in the fridge and they do taste so nice and fresh chopped and added to dish raw.
Here are a few, not so common recipes, on my list to try. I am especially excited about the deep dish pizza as it also gives recipes for some vegan cheese, sounds like quite a long recipe but it can easily be adapted to use dairy! And the corn Dip with a side of salsa sounds relish!
corn and Jalapeno Dip
Garlic Jalapeno Pasta
Deep Dish Jalapeño Pie
Basil Jalapeno Corn fritters
And last here's a very non vegan recipe! Jalapeño Cheeseburger Pasta
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| Strange creatures...Kohlrabi |
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| 2 Beds so far and one more to build. This is our seedling sale house during spring, Our scorching hot pepper house in summer and our lettuce beds in winter. It also houses any potted plants to overwinter (pepper plants in background). To date only our Piri Piri peppers have survived the winters but we are trying again this year. |
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| I have loads of Piri peppers drying from our pepper "trees" that grew from our overwintered peppers. |
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| The cool weather is bringing out all the lovely colours in Kale. |
Some crazy big spinach in the greenhouse and chopped up in your salad mix.
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| Making progress.
Have a great week
Shirley and Rick
Chez Nous Farms
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