The food thread

[evanc]

some recent...More bugs..


Hot peppers. One plants worth made 2 cases of small jars of hot sauce. What to do with the other dozen plants?


more dinner from the garden. Pickled beats, cucumber watermelon salad, lentil salad with tomatoes and fire roasted eqqplant.


Jersey tomatoes and corn..... no additives needed


White trash way to enjoy crab...crab salad on white toast....

 

[jackinnj]

Evan - how do you keep the deer off the tomatoes -- I gave up here in Short Hills

 

[evanc]

A fence made of a few bits of fishing string seems to work...they get weirded out feeling the string they dont see. Dog hair from brushing our animal. Also...and don't judge me...I go out by the garden and both the animal and I "mark" the garden as ours. Works for the lillies too....only they are in the front yard so I have to go out later at night.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

and don't judge me.

I do/did that at my neighbors.
(peed in the fountain on the driveway in their absence, a little voodoo never hurts)

 

[jackinnj]

I use the deer spray which smells like a full 2-day old diaper pail, but when we have very dry conditions they will eat anything. I never thought of your method, but it brings to mind a scene from "Goldmember"

 

[scott wurcer]

I use the deer spray which smells like a full 2-day old diaper pail, but when we have very dry conditions they will eat anything. I never thought of your method, but it brings to mind a scene from "Goldmember"

That was certainly stretching a point to make a joke.

 

[evanc]

We made DIY dear spray for a few seasons. Pee in a spray bottle mixed with eqq yolks for cling and hot pepper sauce for extra repellency. Worked but I've gotten lazy and go right to the source....Plant hot pepper plants here and there and well you know the rest.

New formula is easier to apply if copious beer is being consumed...

 

[evanc]

The hot peppers are going gang busters this year....Anybody want some really hot hot sauce? The first batch is about half fresh peach and nectarine half hot pepper puree and is very hot.

 

[vinylkid58]

Anyone around here with a veg. garden has a big fence. You can pee all you want, doesn't deter them.

jeff

 

[evanc]

You must have those wild west deer.

I would bet in my case the dogs smell deters them more then anything.

 

[jackinnj]

That was certainly stretching a point to make a joke.

As I am close to Soc Security age, that point doesn't get as much stretching as it is wont.

 

[chrisb]

Anyone around here with a veg. garden has a big fence. You can pee all you want, doesn't deter them.

jeff

now, raccoons and rabbits are another story - at least if you can catch them, the rabbits are more or less edible

 

[Cal Weldon]

I'm not sure officer, the deer somehow broke it's leg, so you see, shooting it was the only humane way of dealing with it.

 

[jackinnj]

now, raccoons and rabbits are another story - at least if you can catch them, the rabbits are more or less edible

ragout de lapin, great with papardelle

Cal: wifey hit a deer here in NJ in my brand new MB about 20 years ago -- she was taking the kids to Boy Scouts. Millburn police officer was very happy and took it to the butcher over 2 towns.

 

[Cal Weldon]

Last time I had that good fortune, it turned out to be a lactating female, so no dice.

 

[tomtt]

upscale -

https://instagram.com/poppyscatering

An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.

 

[nezbleu]

Chocolate cherry torte

Fresh cherries (in the middle bathed in chocolate cream, hard to see), nice cake soaked in Kirsch, loads of whipped cream.

 

[Groove T]

Some food with guests on sunday

Papaya salat thai style with sticky rice and long beans and tomato with mozzarella buffalo

 

[Groove T]

Here somewhat more, there is prawn salad with vegetables and lamb racks, potato salad and sirloin steak

 

[jackinnj]

Local PBS station is running a show "Great Bakeries" -- one of the gals takes her truck to the "Food Truck Rodeo" --