Comments on: Harvest http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html Images and writing about my abstract contemporary textile art by Lisa Call. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:55:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jerrad Pullum http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3592 Jerrad Pullum Sat, 09 Sep 2006 00:22:36 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3592 Do you have a receipe you can share. My wife and I have more tomatoes than we know what to do with from our garden. We are looking for a marinara sauce receipe and salsa receipe. Can you help? Do you have a receipe you can share. My wife and I have more tomatoes than we know what to do with from our garden. We are looking for a marinara sauce receipe and salsa receipe. Can you help?

]]> By: Lisa Call http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3426 Lisa Call Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:06:25 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3426 Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I've caught up with the squash and while I was thinking I wouldn't plant the patty pans again I've discovered I love them roasted, brushed with olive oil and sprinkled with garlic salt. Very simple but I can munch down a squash a day cooked like this. Yum. I've also made them into a cream based soup like Melody suggested and they were delicious. Thanks for all the great suggestions! Lesly I'm going to try that raspberry ice cream suggestion next. Sounds great. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions. I’ve caught up with the squash and while I was thinking I wouldn’t plant the patty pans again I’ve discovered I love them roasted, brushed with olive oil and sprinkled with garlic salt. Very simple but I can munch down a squash a day cooked like this. Yum.

I’ve also made them into a cream based soup like Melody suggested and they were delicious.

Thanks for all the great suggestions!

Lesly I’m going to try that raspberry ice cream suggestion next. Sounds great.

]]> By: Chole http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3372 Chole Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:12:26 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3372 I just happened upon this blog, but was wondering if you by chance have seen the book "preserving the harvest". It is chuck full of hundreds of canning, freezing recipes for every food under the sun. Choices are always good when it comes to an over abundance of tomatoes I just happened upon this blog, but was wondering if you by chance have seen the book “preserving the harvest”. It is chuck full of hundreds of canning, freezing recipes for every food under the sun. Choices are always good when it comes to an over abundance of tomatoes

]]> By: Tracy Helgeson http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3366 Tracy Helgeson Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:49:30 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3366 Glad you're back Lisa, and hope you're feeling better. Actually you must be to be doing all of this work! I am very impressed that you are canning. I am WAY too lazy to do that-and so we are just eating tomatoes and squash at every meal. Tomatoes don't go with oatmeal:-) Glad you’re back Lisa, and hope you’re feeling better. Actually you must be to be doing all of this work! I am very impressed that you are canning. I am WAY too lazy to do that-and so we are just eating tomatoes and squash at every meal. Tomatoes don’t go with oatmeal:-)

]]> By: Omega http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3350 Omega Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:09:17 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3350 If you really have piles of surplus tomatoes, you could always start a US equivalent of La Tomatina! http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/fiestas/tomatina.asp If you really have piles of surplus tomatoes, you could always start a US equivalent of La Tomatina! http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/fiestas/tomatina.asp

]]> By: Charmaine http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3342 Charmaine Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:25:08 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3342 Look at you go! Our tomatoes are gearing up but we still don't have a kitchen and all our canning supplies unpacked. I'm SO BUMMED. This will be the second season in a row that we haven't canned tomatoes and pizza sauce. Look at you go! Our tomatoes are gearing up but we still don’t have a kitchen and all our canning supplies unpacked. I’m SO BUMMED. This will be the second season in a row that we haven’t canned tomatoes and pizza sauce.

]]> By: Karoda http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3338 Karoda Wed, 30 Aug 2006 14:41:09 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3338 I envy you having such a dilema...the veggies are just as lush as the fabrics! Some zucchini walnut bread...yum, yum~ I envy you having such a dilema…the veggies are just as lush as the fabrics! Some zucchini walnut bread…yum, yum~

]]> By: Lesly http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3324 Lesly Tue, 29 Aug 2006 19:58:34 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3324 Hi Lisa Nice to see you back, but sorry you caught a bug. This post is just mouth watering! The thought of all those home grown veggies .... MMMM! We are making a new garden and so haven't got a veggie patch started yet (although we have planted a grapevine and a mini-orchard). In any case it is still winter here in New Zealand so your post was extra drool-worthy!. And I am highly impressed with all your preserving and freezing effort!! If your squash are similar to the pumpkin and kumara that we have here (?) then warming winter soups to freeze (with curry flavouring or nutmeg) are favourite. But I don't know how else one would preserve them. And raspberries are just my favourite fruit! Did you know that if you make ice-cream with pureed raspberries (or strawberries) + equal quanitities of double and single cream (beaten together) + a little lemon juice and icing sugar to taste, you don't have to keep taking it out the freezer and beating it? You just freeze the mixture 'as is' and leave it! I won't vouch for all that cholesterol but it makes the most divine ice cream! Hi Lisa

Nice to see you back, but sorry you caught a bug. This post is just mouth watering! The thought of all those home grown veggies …. MMMM! We are making a new garden and so haven’t got a veggie patch started yet (although we have planted a grapevine and a mini-orchard).

In any case it is still winter here in New Zealand so your post was extra drool-worthy!. And I am highly impressed with all your preserving and freezing effort!!

If your squash are similar to the pumpkin and kumara that we have here (?) then warming winter soups to freeze (with curry flavouring or nutmeg) are favourite. But I don’t know how else one would preserve them.

And raspberries are just my favourite fruit! Did you know that if you make ice-cream with pureed raspberries (or strawberries) + equal quanitities of double and single cream (beaten together) + a little lemon juice and icing sugar to taste, you don’t have to keep taking it out the freezer and beating it? You just freeze the mixture ‘as is’ and leave it!

I won’t vouch for all that cholesterol but it makes the most divine ice cream!

]]> By: marti plager http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3304 marti plager Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:55:16 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3304 I'm right there with you Lisa. I too am messing with tomatoes and making marinara sauce for the freezer. Have already canned salsa, chutney and soup. I like doing this but often get annoyed when I feel I should be in the studio. So I sympathize with your wanting to be in the studio instead of the kitchen. I guess the trick is to remember this harvest time next winter. I’m right there with you Lisa. I too am messing with tomatoes and making marinara sauce for the freezer. Have already canned salsa, chutney and soup. I like doing this but often get annoyed when I feel I should be in the studio. So I sympathize with your wanting to be in the studio instead of the kitchen. I guess the trick is to remember this harvest time next winter.

]]> By: Melody Johnson http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html/comment-page-1#comment-3303 Melody Johnson Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:30:59 +0000 http://blog.lisacall.com/2006/08/harvest.html#comment-3303 Lisa, I will be right over! I wish... But as for the squash, yes, roast them in chunks with a bit of olive oil and then take off the peel and mash them with garlic and butter or conversely with brown sugar butter and cinnamon. The mashed stuff freezes beautifully. Our favorite is squash soup with is mashed roasted squash, with chicken broth and heavy cream, garlic of course... Nothing low cal about any of it, but then it is all comfort food, guaranteed to fix the flu or a broken heart. Lisa, I will be right over!
I wish…
But as for the squash, yes, roast them in chunks with a bit of olive oil and then take off the peel and mash them with garlic and butter or conversely with brown sugar butter and cinnamon. The mashed stuff freezes beautifully.
Our favorite is squash soup with is mashed roasted squash, with chicken broth and heavy cream, garlic of course… Nothing low cal about any of it, but then it is all comfort food, guaranteed to fix the flu or a broken heart.

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