Today's harvest

duh... I knew that!! especially after being hit in the head that many times.... by myself! LOL
thanks bliss, don't know where my head was/is.

dragnlaw said:

duh... I knew that!! especially after being hit in the head that many times.... by myself! LOL
thanks bliss, don't know where my head was/is.

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But that doesn't tell you how much fresh pepper went into making those amounts of peppers minus the seeds, pith, and skin. That's what I would want to know.

taxy, I think with reading the recipe you can make an educated guess. So although some 'poetic license' could probably have been taken with the photographs, one can make some educated guesses.
A large jar of roasted red peppers (at least the one I buy) contains about 5, often more, whole peppers. This corresponds to the picture in the recipe of the peppers they roasted.
So I think bliss is correct with her assumptions as to the jar sizes.
This is also not a baking project where precise weights and measures usually need to be more specific. The recipe only contains some salt, lemon juice and oil, a couple of grams/ounces one way or the other is easily adjusted for your own specific tastes.

On the other hand, should you open the jar of roasted peppers and find 10 huge peppers, I think common sense would tell you that perhaps that is a bit more than the recipe suggests.
The recipe also does not tell you how many peppers went into the recipe, nor how much that 2 kg is for... raw peppers, unroasted with skin, pith and seeds? or 2 kg for roasted, peeled, pith and seeds removed?

Harvest news: at 8 pm tonight, the albino deer (looks like about a year old and is fat), which to us looked like a cow or goat, harvested his/her salad bar from our large garden. We could see it in the dark. I handed mr bliss a powerful flashlight and we tried to spook it. It didn't go far. It was 20 feet from the house when we saw him and only one neighbor away after we yelled and shined the light on him a lot.
Albino or white deer are protected so maybe it is used to seeing people and not so afraid of them. My salad garden (up by the house) is 1 week from me picking lettuce. What are the chances it will be there tomorrow morning?

dragnlaw said:

taxy, I think with reading the recipe you can make an educated guess. So although some 'poetic license' could probably have been taken with the photographs, one can make some educated guesses.
A large jar of roasted red peppers (at least the one I buy) contains about 5, often more, whole peppers. This corresponds to the picture in the recipe of the peppers they roasted.
So I think bliss is correct with her assumptions as to the jar sizes.
This is also not a baking project where precise weights and measures usually need to be more specific. The recipe only contains some salt, lemon juice and oil, a couple of grams/ounces one way or the other is easily adjusted for your own specific tastes.

On the other hand, should you open the jar of roasted peppers and find 10 huge peppers, I think common sense would tell you that perhaps that is a bit more than the recipe suggests.
The recipe also does not tell you how many peppers went into the recipe, nor how much that 2 kg is for... raw peppers, unroasted with skin, pith and seeds? or 2 kg for roasted, peeled, pith and seeds removed?

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You're right. Guesstimating for this recipe is fine.

I use roasted peppers in a jar too. I'm trying to remember if there is usually pith and seeds inside of those or is it something that only happens once in a while. Do you remember?

Are you @dragnlaw @taxlady talking about @larry_stewart 's recipe for pepper paste? This one. https://theveganplanetkitchen.com/sweet-red-pepper-paste-biber-salcasi/

I would assume that 1 kg peppers to be roasted, are raw fresh, but a can of peppers that is 1 kg will do if you need to use them instead.
Under 'Servings', it doesn't list a number of servings, it says 300 ml. That is about 10 ounces. To me-that is the outcome of the recipe, the recipe size at the end.
So I'd assume after charring the peel, removing it, cutting it open, removing veins and seeds, taking off the tops, you lose a portion of the weight. Maybe as much as a 1/4th. Then you cook it for 30 minutes to lose moisture, bringing it down to 300 ml or 10 ounces.
If you are talking about some other recipe then I don't know.

blissful said:

Are you @dragnlaw @taxlady talking about @larry_stewart 's recipe for pepper paste? This one. https://theveganplanetkitchen.com/sweet-red-pepper-paste-biber-salcasi/

I would assume that 1 kg peppers to be roasted, are raw fresh, but a can of peppers that is 1 kg will do if you need to use them instead.
Under 'Servings', it doesn't list a number of servings, it says 300 ml. That is about 10 ounces. To me-that is the outcome of the recipe, the recipe size at the end.
So I'd assume after charring the peel, removing it, cutting it open, removing veins and seeds, taking off the tops, you lose a portion of the weight. Maybe as much as a 1/4th. Then you cook it for 30 minutes to lose moisture, bringing it down to 300 ml or 10 ounces.
If you are talking about some other recipe then I don't know.

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Yes, that's the one. See, I think that the jarred peppers don't usually have seeds and pith, so they would weigh less that the equivalent peppers that were intact. It won't make a difference to cooking them, but the weight ratio of whole peppers to resulting paste won't be 10:3. I will guess more like 8:3 starting with peppers that already have seeds and pith removed. But, all that does is change the amount you get. I doubt it will make a huge difference.

when I make that pepper paste recipe, I use it as a general guide but dont follow it religiously. As long as the end result comes out as a pepper paste ( similar in consistency to a tomato paste) Im happy. I've seen other recipes vary ( garlic, hot peppers for heat..). I use this one as a guide, cause I compared the ingredients to the one I got at the store.

taxlady said:

You're right. Guesstimating for this recipe is fine.

I use roasted peppers in a jar too. I'm trying to remember if there is usually pith and seeds inside of those or is it something that only happens once in a while. Do you remember?

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I don't remember either. But my feeling is that the jpith and seeds are removed. I know that the top are gone.

Actually that's given me an idea. I often don't know what to do with the rest of a jar once opened. They spoil extremely fast. But the last jar I had I made the balance into a pasta sauce. Not terribly impressed with it but still OK and at least it didn't have time to get moldy.
In future I will probably either blend them down and/or freeze flat.
Also must remembre to look and see if they are actually whole without a split down one side. Wondering if I could actually stuff them with.... something?

dragnlaw said:

I don't remember either. But my feeling is that the jpith and seeds are removed. I know that the top are gone.

Actually that's given me an idea. I often don't know what to do with the rest of a jar once opened. They spoil extremely fast. But the last jar I had I made the balance into a pasta sauce. Not terribly impressed with it but still OK and at least it didn't have time to get moldy.
In future I will probably either blend them down and/or freeze flat.
Also must remembre to look and see if they are actually whole without a split down one side. Wondering if I could actually stuff them with.... something?

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That's an excellent idea, finishing off the jar immediately that it's opened. Here's something else to make with roasted red peppers:


I use it in part because it's a red sauce and it doesn't have tomatoes. Some of the available jarred peppers are also sweet, so I rinse them. On my third try making this, I added a splash of Worcestershire sauce and that worked well. Another thing I noted was that it made a huge mess in the food processor. So, the next time, I used my immersion blender and the beaker that came with the immersion blender to make it in. That worked much better than the food processor.

I got even more cherries today, mostly from one Negro Azteka plant, that was late, because it broke off early, in a storm, so I just stuck it back in the soil, and re-rooted it! It was later, and I've been picking a few ripe ones from that every time, but this time I had a huge number of ripe ones on it, and it was spread out so much, through the eggplants, that they were hard to find. I only picked the tomatoes from 3 plants - that one, the Rosella, and the Ron's Carbon Copy, and at least 80% are the Negro Azteka. As I noted with the other two plants, they were not true bred, and this is even different, and better, in that I don't see all the splits; in fact, I didn't see any! So I bagged a couple of the stems, and I'll save these seeds, instead of the others, though I picked the better of the two plants over there.
Almost 4 quarts of cherry tomatoes from 3 plants, mostly Negro Aztekas, a few red Rosellas, and the larger ones are Ron's Carbons. 9-8 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

A few eggplants today, too, plus the ones a few days ago.
Eggplant (and a few beans under them), from 9-8 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

And my last (almost) Thai peppers, plus some habs.
Almost the end of the Thai peppers, plus a few habs. 9-8 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Today I harvested the only 2 winter melons I had out there - the second vine had what looked like a butternut, and only one, on a really long vine, and never even saw another female flower! That long winter melon vine is getting more flowers, though I don't know if I'll get any more in this time. Those winter melons are heavy, for their size - 81 and 91 oz, and the butternut was only 28.5 oz.
2 winter melons, this variety is Snow Lady. The butternut was a seed from the same packet, and only one fruit on the vine. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Pop corn. Grown in large pots. I totally overcrowded the pots and though I'd wind up with nothing, but actually did ok.

More tomatoes yesterday, mostly the Superfantastik, Early Blue Ribbon, and Amish Gold Slicer. I'm getting about the same amount of beans every day; the eggplants sort of slowed down, as far as how large they are growing, but there are still a bunch of them! Fall crops are starting to take off now, and before I know it will be time to put the garlic in!
About 8 qts of the larger tomatoes ripening, plus a few of the beans. 9-11 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

The only tomatoes I picked today were those two sort of enlarged grape varieties - Bronze Torch Hybrids, and Juliet Hybrids. Got about 3 quarts, from just 2 plants each.
About 3 quarts of Bronze Torch hybrid (left) and Juliet hybrid, 9-15. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

And 5 Ichiban eggplants, plus just one of the other 3 varieties.
5 Ichiban eggplants, and 1 of each of the other varieties. 9-15 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

I only harvested a few beans in my garden today, but I went back to my friend's place, where I was yesterday, when I took her my " "extra" greens, and she was showing me all those peppers they had ripening, on only one plant of each type, that I gave her in spring. Her son - the only one that really uses any of the hots - when I told him about the problems I had with the peppers, and most were gone, told me I could have all the peppers I wanted, since he already had more dried and frozen than he could use until next season. They picked them all yesterday (I was going to an appointment, otherwise I would have stayed and done it!), and I went back today, and took them a container of that creole mix I made last night, plus a pint of that yogurt, since they use more of that than I do. And she showed me where she had planted those greens yesterday, and was shocked that they had already grown in less than a day! So I might get her hooked on those, too.

Here are all those peppers they gave me, and only 3 Aji Dulce, because I reminded him that was the habanero flavor with almost no heat, which he forgot. I also gave them another very mild pepper she really likes - Big Mic - a Numex type, that she got some 8" peppers from, and barely any heat, so even she could eat them, so she wants more of those next year. All of these were just from one plant each.
Hanoi Market, from my friend's garden. 9-18 These went into a vacuum bag, and into the freezer. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Thai Vesuvius and Thai Dragon, from my friend's garden. 9-18 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

A bunch of Datil peppers, and just 3 Aji Dulce from my friend's garden. 9-18 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Here's an eggplant, that she "lost" in all the vegetation, so it got close to 2 lbs. I told her it might be a bit seedy, but I haven't had that variety get bitter.
A large Matrosik eggplant from my friend's garden, just under 2 lbs. (my hand is not small!). Said she sort of lost it under the leaves. 9-18 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

Here's my only harvest today, because those beans get overgrown quickly.
A few more beans I harvested, after I got home today. 9-18 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

I got a few beans and okra today - something I do daily - but mostly tomatoes and eggplants, since it had been a few days since I harvested those. And there are still countless tomatoes of those smaller types, and a generous number of the larger types on those plants. Still one cucumber plant alive, but one I'll pull out tomorrow, after harvesting the last fruit from it. And those Ichibans are still producing more than the rest of the varieties.
19 eggplants, just over 60 oz. 9-21 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

That 4 qt bowl has over a qt of sunsugars on the bottom, and about 2 qts of the Juliets and Bronze Torch hybrids, and the Negro Azteka on top. The gold ones in the basket are all Zluta Golds, and the larger blacks are Ron's Carbon, and a few Rosellas, and mostly Negro Azteka one plant.
Tomatoes are still producing well! 9-21 by pepperhead212, on Flickr

I went down to see how my olive trees were doing, unfortunately looks like another "no harvest' this Autumn.
On the other hand, a big satisfaction to see my conference pear trees loaded.

After all those tomatoes went to the 5 trays in the dehydrator, and today I cleaned up all the rest of the last two harvests, and they are cooking down to a paste, I harvested a bunch more today! A bunch more Sunsugars, Juliets, and Bronze Torch Hybrids almost filled a 4 qt bowl, those Negro Aztekas, and a few other cherries, filled another 4 qt bowl about halfway. And the larger tomatoes I got about 3 qts of, almost entirely the Early Blue Ribbon Hybrids this time.
Tomatoes picked on 9-26 - the old ones are all ground up and cooking down to paste. by pepperhead212, on Flickr

I just noticed today that our little lemon tree has 4 green lemons!
It hasn't produced fruits for about twenty odd years now, it's also been through harsh Winters, ice, snow and at one point it looked completely withered, so we'd lost hope and even stopped covering it up during the Winter, like we always did.
Now, this miracle has happened. Who knows if they'll ripen or just dry out, I'll just have to wait and see.
I couldn't get access to the 4th one, as the tree is on a steep slope.