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Post by smsmith on Sept 17, 2021 18:25:28 GMT -6
I've almost killed a quart of hot dilly beans between the Vikes and Packers both looking like shit today. Tomorrow morning it's gonna be a "burning ring of fire" Back on the hot dilly beans. There must be something about the canning process that makes hot peppers less hot. So far I've eaten an entire habanero and half a ghost pepper as well as a bunch of dilly beans. Ya, there's some heat but nothing like it would be if eaten raw. |
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 17, 2021 18:37:56 GMT -6
I would agree.
I make gallons of pickled jalapenos every fall. And they are easy to eat.
Take a fresh one and slice it up. Sometimes they can even give you a good right hook.
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 17, 2021 18:39:50 GMT -6
Not a canning item, but the wife is making apple crisps like mad to give away. Nice apple harvest this year and a lot more to come. sure wish I knew what I planted 10 years ago. LOLLLL
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Post by smsmith on Sept 17, 2021 18:41:34 GMT -6
I would agree. I make gallons of pickled jalapenos every fall. And they are easy to eat. Take a fresh one and slice it up. Sometimes they can even give you a good right hook. Jalapenos are interesting. I can take one off a plant and eat it like a green pepper, and then take the next one off the same plant and it's hotter than a habanero. |
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Post by biglakebass on Sept 17, 2021 18:45:12 GMT -6
I rarely get a pickled jalapeno that gives me the right hook.
I have 3 gallons of a pepper "medley" I made a couple weeks ago. I dont even know what all the peppers are.
Its 5 or 6 kinds. I got a bunch and said what the hell. PICKLE EM!
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Post by smsmith on Sept 17, 2021 18:49:01 GMT -6
I rarely get a pickled jalapeno that gives me the right hook. I have 3 gallons of a pepper "medley" I made a couple weeks ago. I dont even know what all the peppers are. Its 5 or 6 kinds. I got a bunch and said what the hell. PICKLE EM! Throw some green olives, cauliflower, and olive oil in there and you'd have jardinière |
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Post by chummer16 on Sept 18, 2021 17:32:56 GMT -6
I got about 100 McIntosh off my house tree. Most of the big ones dropped without me knowing. Figures my least favorite apple grows the best. I have made two batches of dehydrated apple slice and I have enough for 1 more. Daughter also used 20 and is attempting her first batch of cider(cooking now). I have about 5 gallons of Roma tomatoes in the freezer. Still a few on the plants. I will be doing my first attempt at jarring sauce for the year. My wife can’t have salt anymore and we love pasta so I am making our own salt free sauce.
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Post by kooch on Sept 18, 2021 19:18:52 GMT -6
I rarely get a pickled jalapeno that gives me the right hook. I have 3 gallons of a pepper "medley" I made a couple weeks ago. I dont even know what all the peppers are. Its 5 or 6 kinds. I got a bunch and said what the hell. PICKLE EM! Throw some green olives, cauliflower, and olive oil in there and you'd have jardinière Mexicans skip the olive and add some carrot. I don’t know what they call it. But it’s good. |
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Post by smsmith on Sept 19, 2021 6:34:19 GMT -6
I got about 100 McIntosh off my house tree. Most of the big ones dropped without me knowing. Figures my least favorite apple grows the best. I have made two batches of dehydrated apple slice and I have enough for 1 more. Daughter also used 20 and is attempting her first batch of cider(cooking now). I have about 5 gallons of Roma tomatoes in the freezer. Still a few on the plants. I will be doing my first attempt at jarring sauce for the year. My wife can’t have salt anymore and we love pasta so I am making our own salt free sauce. Macs make some of the best applesauce I've ever had. They are also a great base for cider. Macs were always the most sought after variety by deer at my old place, I assume because they have such a strong aroma. It's a PITA variety to grow though, seems like they're always full of scab. |
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 19, 2021 6:37:35 GMT -6
I got about 100 McIntosh off my house tree. Most of the big ones dropped without me knowing. Figures my least favorite apple grows the best. I have made two batches of dehydrated apple slice and I have enough for 1 more. Daughter also used 20 and is attempting her first batch of cider(cooking now). I have about 5 gallons of Roma tomatoes in the freezer. Still a few on the plants. I will be doing my first attempt at jarring sauce for the year. My wife can’t have salt anymore and we love pasta so I am making our own salt free sauce. Macs make some of the best applesauce I've ever had. They are also a great base for cider. Macs were always the most sought after variety by deer at my old place, I assume because they have such a strong aroma. It's a PITA variety to grow though, seems like they're always full of scab. I always see deer go to my chestnut crab. I have a buddy in the Grand Rapids, (Mn) area and he sees the same thing with chestnut crab. I don’t have any Macs and I doubt he does for comparisons sakes. |
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Post by chummer16 on Sept 19, 2021 7:26:59 GMT -6
I got about 100 McIntosh off my house tree. Most of the big ones dropped without me knowing. Figures my least favorite apple grows the best. I have made two batches of dehydrated apple slice and I have enough for 1 more. Daughter also used 20 and is attempting her first batch of cider(cooking now). I have about 5 gallons of Roma tomatoes in the freezer. Still a few on the plants. I will be doing my first attempt at jarring sauce for the year. My wife can’t have salt anymore and we love pasta so I am making our own salt free sauce. Macs make some of the best applesauce I've ever had. They are also a great base for cider. Macs were always the most sought after variety by deer at my old place, I assume because they have such a strong aroma. It's a PITA variety to grow though, seems like they're always full of scab. They are good to eat for a week or so after picked but they get soft pretty quick. The neighborhood deer are eating them but there is a pretty big pile under the tree. A few fall inside the fence and the dogs like to chew on them. |
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Post by smsmith on Sept 19, 2021 7:32:26 GMT -6
Macs make some of the best applesauce I've ever had. They are also a great base for cider. Macs were always the most sought after variety by deer at my old place, I assume because they have such a strong aroma. It's a PITA variety to grow though, seems like they're always full of scab. They are good to eat for a week or so after picked but they get soft pretty quick. The neighborhood deer are eating them but there is a pretty big pile under the tree. A few fall inside the fence and the dogs like to chew on them. When I was a kid we had a large McIntosh tree. Mom would use as many as she could for applesauce and various apple desserts and we'd give away as many as we could...but there'd still be shitloads of them left. My job was to load up the drops/windfalls/most insect or disease damaged fruits into the loader bucket. I'd take them to a corner of the acreage and dump them. Deer ate an awful lot of them, but they'd never eat them all. The same held true for all the other varieties we had. Some years there'd be 8-10 loader buckets dumped. Dad got sick of all the work that went into fruit trees and cut them all down but 2. |
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Post by chummer16 on Sept 19, 2021 7:36:48 GMT -6
Macs make some of the best applesauce I've ever had. They are also a great base for cider. Macs were always the most sought after variety by deer at my old place, I assume because they have such a strong aroma. It's a PITA variety to grow though, seems like they're always full of scab. I always see deer go to my chestnut crab. I have a buddy in the Grand Rapids, (Mn) area and he sees the same thing with chestnut crab. I don’t have any Macs and I doubt he does for comparisons sakes. All the chestnuts I planted from Cummins died after the first winter except one which later died to an apple borer. I planted another 4 from SLN and they have survived three years now. They were the size of pencils when I got them but they are around 6’ now. Still no apples but probably next year. There were also a few frostbite that came with them and a couple of them had an apple or two this year. After many failures with the first three years planting I finally have som progress the last few years. I will never plant another tree from Cummins or on B.118. That combo represents most of the failures. The Kerr and Dolgo on P.18 from them are doing great but liberty, enterprises, chestnut, and others were nearly 100% fail. |
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 19, 2021 7:52:19 GMT -6
I am not real impressed with B118 as a rootstock for deer apples.
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Post by Sandbur on Sept 19, 2021 7:58:13 GMT -6
I got about 100 McIntosh off my house tree. Most of the big ones dropped without me knowing. Figures my least favorite apple grows the best. I have made two batches of dehydrated apple slice and I have enough for 1 more. Daughter also used 20 and is attempting her first batch of cider(cooking now). I have about 5 gallons of Roma tomatoes in the freezer. Still a few on the plants. I will be doing my first attempt at jarring sauce for the year. My wife can’t have salt anymore and we love pasta so I am making our own salt free sauce. Macs make some of the best applesauce I've ever had. They are also a great base for cider. Macs were always the most sought after variety by deer at my old place, I assume because they have such a strong aroma. It's a PITA variety to grow though, seems like they're always full of scab. I know a guy from Illinois who noted the aroma of the Iowa Prairie Crab. I thought he should try Kola and I think he ordered one. He asked about the aroma of the Nevis Ioensis crosses and I have not noticed it. The apples are still hard as rocks. I bit into one, yuck. I see why the natives used to bury ioensis until spring. |
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