Garden time...Oh boy!

[Farwell]

Jim,
When I was a kid our dog would tree them, my brother would shoot them, my Mother would gut and skin them and we had fresh meat. I don't remember what the meat tasted like. Our dog and my brother got so good at getting them my Mother put a stop to the shooting. She said that if you shoot them you have to clean them. That put a stop to the raccoon shooting.
If you trap them be prepared for a mess. I have to use high pressure water to get the cage clean afterwords.
Farwell

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Scott has a garden going back behind his new barn-shop. We have to pick the okra every other day too. And I think we're going to be pink from all the tomatoes we're eating.

Just about every evening I make a quick spicey okra tomatoe gumbo kind of thing. It's good. It's good for you. And it's not something beyond the capablility of a man to do.

One onion diced

Oh about that much okra sliced (bowl full)

About half the okra amount of peeled and sliced tomatoes

Cup of jalopenas diced. Remove the seeds if there are tender mouths present. If not keep in those seeds!!!!

I put the whole thing in a microwave pot let it cook in the microwave for about eight to ten minutes.

The end result is a gumbo without meat dish that's absolutely delicious if you like okra and tomatoes. And since there's no water involved besides what's in the tomatoes there's none of the okra slime that you usually get from cooking okra conventionally.

Most people have a problem with their nose when I mention jalopenas. But if you remove the seeds before you dice them the only add a sweet taste to the dish. Most people can't tell I've put them in there but they do notice a good taste that they didn't expect.

enjoy.

 

[rox]

Harv,

In your gumbo, add a little bit of high quality olive oil and see if you like it. The olive oil should have a good flavor, not void of flavor.

 

[jinman]

Harvey, your quick gumbo recipe sounds good. I think Rox is onto something with a little olive oil too. Do you ever add any rice? Kathy has been fixing regular gumbo without meat for me from the okra and tomatoes. We've frozen some of it for a quick warm-up treat this winter. I'm sure she hasn't used jalapenos, but that sounds good to me. I'm one of those people who thinks everything is better with jalapenos.

I cut open our first Israel melon last night and it is sweet, sweet, sweet. If you ever have a chance to taste one of these, don't pass it by.

 

[Egon]

I always thought cooking started with putting your hand on the bottle of Olive oil and dicing some garlic!

 

[PineRidge]

I always thought cooking started with putting your hand on the bottle of Olive oil and dicing some garlic!

Egon I'm in total agreement with you, olive oil garlic goes with just about everything.

 

[Bird]

I cut open our first Israel melon last night and it is sweet, sweet, sweet. If you ever have a chance to taste one of these, don't pass it by.

I'd never even heard of an Israel melon until about 5 years ago when a neighbor gave me one. It was so good that I kept the seeds and grew my own the next year. I'm surprised they're not more popular than they are.