Local produce
- My mom has been bringing me regular installments of produce from her CSA share.
- I went once to Frogtown Farm market, earlier in the year, and it was great. I'll definitely have to go again now that there will be more produce.
- I've been to the St. Thomas More market near my apartment once, and the Lakeville farmer's market once.
- I haven't been as involved in Hamline's on-campus gardens as I hoped, but it's not too late.
- Pretty soon, I'll start receiving boxes from the Good Acre's farm share.
Fruit foraging
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| A couple hours' effort. |
- I picked so many serviceberries in June... I made serviceberry pies twice, serviceberry wine (kind of), and I still have some in my freezer.
- I missed most of the mulberry season unfortunately, but I did get some sour cherries and raspberries.
Canning
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| From $5 worth of tomatoes. |
- I have 9 pint jars of canned tomatoes! Yay!
- I haven't tried anything else yet, but I would love to try canning some salsa verde if I can get a large amount of tomatillos.
Fermenting
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| Beginning stage of hot sauce |
- I've made about 3 napa cabbages worth of kim chi so far this summer, and found some new favorite ways to eat it, including: on eggs, in ramen, in a peanut butter and kim chi sandwich, finely chopped into a sauce for rice noodles.
- Sauerkraut is always a favorite of mine, and I love to eat it on brats or in a sandwich with some swiss cheese and roast beef. Or just plain. It's delicious.
- I've also fermented a lot of beets, which is one of my favorite ways to eat beets.
- Right now, I'm trying my hand at a fermented hot sauce, with cayenne peppers, sweet peppers, onion and garlic. It probably won't look too pretty since I'm using both red and green peppers, but hopefully it will taste good.
