Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

@Baymule , that is how I respond to tomato plants BUT I can still peppers, tomatillos, ground cherries, potatoes for the most part. Eating eggplant annoys me, but I never liked eating live packing foam much anyway. I have trouble giving up the tom plants, so I feel for you, but hopefully you'll still be able to enjoy at least the level I can. Oh man, do those welts feel like bruises...but tomatoes are so pretty with such a fun history and fun to grow...so I MUST PINEAPPLE TOMATILLO IT! Yum.

Pineapple Ground Cherry (Heirloom 75 Days)

It really tastes like a pineapple! The large spreading plants are 3 feet across and covered with hundreds of fruit that are quite different from other tomatillos. They are only about 3/4 inch in diameter and soft so they are great for eating fresh. They fall from the plant when ripe. The...

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I have never tried ground cherries. Do you just eat them fresh, make pies, or what do you do with them? No eggplant? LOL I do love me some fried eggplant. What can I say, I'm Southern, fried is always better!

 

[rachels.haven]

Hmm, I didn't know you could fry it. I may have to try once for kicks. Maybe the healing effects of artery lubricating deep frying will counter the negative effects of the nightshade eggplant and it will all go fine, lol.

The great thing about pineapple tomatillos is you just eat them. They are very good popped straight from the wrapper. I think there are a few other varieties other than just pineapple, but I haven't tried them yet. When they get loose on the bush or when they fall off they're done. I'm sure you could use them for something, but I usually plant them as my guilty pleasure and do not share or let them get to the house, so I haven't tried. Maybe next time when I get my veggie garden set up I'll share or try something fun. In Michigan and Iowa they had a short growing season because they really like the heat and hot summer was short. You may get better results.

 

[Ridgetop]

Fried is always better! I don't like okra because it is slimy. Maybe I just don't know how to cook it or use it properly. BUT when I come to Texas I always get deep fried okra wherever I find it. Yummy! Our local little store that offers cheap veggies and has a butcher counter had "catfish tidbits" on sale really cheap We tried them battered and fried and they were good so got a lot more Just love fried catfish. I usually get the catfish filets at Costco but these were 1/2 the price and since I usually cut the filets into smaller pieces these worked out perfectly. Yum! Several meals of batter fried catfish coming up! They also have what they call "pork chunks" cheap I think they are hind quarter meat that didn't go for hams. I cook it with onions and chili verde sauce in the Instapot and freeze it in smaller batches to use with tamales and rice. Costco has some green chili cooked pork in the special food aisle that is very good too, I buy that as well as the tamales Costco sells. We used to get them from a lady who made them herself, but these are better. Hers had too much cornmeal on them, Except the pineapple ones she sold at Christmas. Crab salad tonight since we were out playing bridge with friends. It is still very hot and when it is that hot, I get lazy about cooking. LOL

 

[Baymule]

Crab salad tonight since we were out playing bridge with friends. It is still very hot and when it is that hot, I get lazy about cooking. LOL

You made that crab salad the night we went to your RV. I watched you make it and since them have made it for us several times. It sure is good!

 

[Ridgetop]

Great quick meal in hot weather! I buy the packs of imitation crab on sale and shove them in the freezer. Also good in Fettucini Alfredo for a quick hit meal. I am a big believer in having ingredients on hand for quick meals when we get caught up in chores that "will only take a few minutes" but end up taking most of the day due to our propensity for trouble! LOL

 

[Baymule]

I hadn’t thought about the Fettuccine Alfredo ! Yum! I’ll have to make that, I have a package of frozen imitation crab , maybe tomorrow!

 

[Baymule]

Mike, we veered off track, hope you don’t mind the highjack! LOL LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

Mike, we veered off track, hope you don’t mind the highjack! LOL LOL

Those veer offs often make a slow moving thread move faster.

 

[farmerjan]

You may think you are a "slow moving thread" but I for one really enjoy your posts. Just wish you were closer..... I would gladly pay for some of the meals you guys eat. This cooking for one is just the pits, and when I am busy at the barn, it would be nice to come home to something easy to just pop in the convection oven, or ....

 

[Bruce]

Fried is always better!

You'll fit right in when you move to TX and chicken fry your leg of lamb "steaks".