We're officially into winter now but luckily we have some reminders of summer and autumn and the garden goodness that we (or our friends) cultivated:
From left to right...
Pickled Peppers: I had never picked a peck of pickled peppers until I made these. It's just too hard to keep up with a chili plant in its prime so I pickled as many as I could squeeze into two jars. They are very nice and occasionally you chomp into a ghost chili (aka bhut jolokia) because, well, that plant was going strong too so I had to grab a few.
Feijoa Chutney: This is from the kitchen of Bridget and Andy who had a feijoa tree blessed much more than ours this year. Among a feijoa cake they brought over, they also turned them into a beautiful chutney that I am going to serve alongside some cheeses this weekend.
Papa E's Onion Marmalade: From Eric by way of another friend's recipe. This stuff is amazing - I most recently put it onto toasted cheesesteak hoagies. Yum.
Papa E's Pickles: Made of their garden cukes, a delicious accompaniment with the caesars we made last week with spicy gin (not pictured). Pickles here tend to only be of the sweet variety so a proper dill flavouring made Eric's extra good!
I hope next year's garden has even more in store! I think we'll shrink the area a little to make it easier to access and tend because right now it's too tempting not to plant every square inch which makes for a lot of effort!
Pickled Peppers: I had never picked a peck of pickled peppers until I made these. It's just too hard to keep up with a chili plant in its prime so I pickled as many as I could squeeze into two jars. They are very nice and occasionally you chomp into a ghost chili (aka bhut jolokia) because, well, that plant was going strong too so I had to grab a few.
Feijoa Chutney: This is from the kitchen of Bridget and Andy who had a feijoa tree blessed much more than ours this year. Among a feijoa cake they brought over, they also turned them into a beautiful chutney that I am going to serve alongside some cheeses this weekend.
Papa E's Onion Marmalade: From Eric by way of another friend's recipe. This stuff is amazing - I most recently put it onto toasted cheesesteak hoagies. Yum.
Papa E's Pickles: Made of their garden cukes, a delicious accompaniment with the caesars we made last week with spicy gin (not pictured). Pickles here tend to only be of the sweet variety so a proper dill flavouring made Eric's extra good!
I hope next year's garden has even more in store! I think we'll shrink the area a little to make it easier to access and tend because right now it's too tempting not to plant every square inch which makes for a lot of effort!
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