{"id":29,"date":"2008-12-10T23:48:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/angie\/?p=29"},"modified":"2008-12-10T23:48:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T06:48:05","slug":"yummy-dinner-from-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/2008\/12\/10\/yummy-dinner-from-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Yummy Dinner from the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We harvested several food crops this year.\u00a0 Strawberries, blueberries, carrots and tomatoes.\u00a0 We also grow rosemary, thyme, oregano and sage, which I guess are considered herbs and not food, but since I eat them and &#8216;food crop&#8217; sounds more impressive I have declared them food crops for my garden.\u00a0 Onions were a dismal failure, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that was my fault and, well, brussel sprouts and brocolli were pathetic this year.\u00a0 Again, pretty sure that was my fault.<\/p>\n<p>So what is a gardener to do with all of that abundance?\u00a0 Okay, all of those tomatoes.\u00a0 Canning!\u00a0 I tried canning once, back when I lived in a dwelling with no land of my own in which to plant things.\u00a0 I trekked out to a farm, dragging Matt with me, and picked several pounds of roma tomatoes.\u00a0 I canned them (halved and hot packed with citric acid) and they sat in my cabinet for weeks on end.\u00a0 Staring at me balefully.\u00a0 Eventually I popped open a jar and cooked the life out of them, ate them, and went to bed convinced that I would die at some point during the night of botulism.\u00a0 The next day\u00a0 I promptly opened and emptied the other nine jars.\u00a0 Really, I don&#8217;t do anxiety as a side dish.\u00a0 Much to stressful.\u00a0 Oh and the citric acid really overwhelmed the taste of the tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Not this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_30\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/12\/img_0006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-30 size-medium\" title=\"img_0006\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/12\/img_0006-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Bounty from the Garden (and Farmer's Market)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bounty from the Garden (and Farmer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here is what I learned from my first and subsequent canning experiences.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>When canning tomatoes, lemon juice is so much better than citric acid.<\/li>\n<li>Smaller batches are easier to manage for one person and more fun to do.<\/li>\n<li>Pickles are ridiculously easy.<\/li>\n<li>Pickled beets turn your hands red.<\/li>\n<li>Everyone loves strawberry jam.<\/li>\n<li>Pressure canners make a lot of noise, but their quick and you can pretend you are driving a train.<\/li>\n<li>My dining room table can hold one layer of approximately 300 tomatoes of various sizes!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud to say that of the jars in the picture above, two of the stewed tomato jars are history. \u00a0\u00a0 Yup, I ate them and fed them to Matt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We harvested several food crops this year.\u00a0 Strawberries, blueberries, carrots and tomatoes.\u00a0 We also grow rosemary, thyme, oregano and sage, which I guess are considered herbs and not food, but since I eat them and &#8216;food crop&#8217; sounds more impressive I have declared them food crops for my garden.\u00a0 Onions were a dismal failure, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[12,16,24],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardening","category-organics","tag-canning","tag-gardening","tag-tomatoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubschlager.com\/angie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}