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Skriven 2014-12-01 12:14:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HAFFLY
Ärende: Re: Peppers
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-=> Quoting Ruth Haffly to Nancy Backus on 11-28-14  17:00 <=-

 NB>> True, our season here is tempered by being close to the Great Lake...
 NB>> and not being at too high an elevation...  :)  And it still seems
 NB>> pretty short.  Danny Wegman (and family) has been experimenting with
 NB>> pushing the season longer by using special greenhouses, particularly
 NB>> for growing local organics, to have them still available almost for
 NB>> the whole year. Some of the other larger farms apparently are doing
 NB>> similarly... :)

 RH> Sounds interesting, if we lived up that way, I'd be shopping Wegman's
 RH> all the time.

I'm sure you would be.   :)

 RH>> We ate, tho they might not have been our favorite vegetables. Dad
 RH>> planted lots of basics, after most of the kids left, he did less of
 RH>> them and added some others, in small amounts.
 NB>> After the kids were on their own, it was more a case of growing for
 NB>> its own sake, not so much for feeding the family...  :)

 RH> They still had enough to carry them for quite a while. Every fall
 RH> (after I left home) they would go up to Cobbiskill for a bushel of
 RH> potatoes, cauliflower and several other vegetables. Mom would freeze
 RH> the vegetables, the potatoes would last into the next (late) spring
 RH> tho they would be sorry looking by then.
 
One gets into hard to break habits... and if one has the available time
and energy to put up stuff, it just seems to be a good thing to do... :)
Reinforced, of course, by the fact that it does last them through the
winter...  ;)   Only when it becomes too much trouble, does it seem less
than a good thing to be doing.   :)

 NB>> after all, it IS the end of November...  (G)   But they are saying
 NB>> 50s on Sunday, with rain... and then back to 30s and snow on
 NB>> Monday... oh, well...  ;)

 RH> I'm glad I'm not up there. (G)

Oh, it's not so bad...  the forecast shifted (what else is new...!?) and
now there's not much chance of that white stuff after all..  30s and 40s
for highs this week, pretty much, with sun expected on the colder
days... not that hard to take for December...  :)
 
 NB>>> Quickie chili with beans...  ;)  About as close as I come to
 NB>>> making real chili any time...  :)
 RH>> I usually do a much more involved one but had the stuff on hand,
 RH>> less to move to the new house.
 NB>> But of course...  you being more of a cook than I, and definitely a
 NB>> good idea to be using up stuff rather than moving it...  :)

 RH> We're still going to have a lot to move but that'll be fewer canned
 RH> goods.

Save some weight for moving... and can always replace them in the
cupboard after the move...  ;)

ttyl           neb

... Anyone who loves food knows that all that matters is: Is it good?

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