As we move into August , veggie nurseryman begin to require themselves a dewy-eyed motion : What was I thinking ? The harvest are piling up and , as delectable as it would be , you ca n’t feed it all fresh . Instead of piling buckets of berries , squash , green beans and tomatoes on your kitchen rejoinder , consider two options for preserving the harvest : freeze and drying . ( We ’ll have more on other option later this calendar month ! )
Freezing is the easy way to economise some of your garden produce for winter feeding . Some foods , such as raspberries , can simply be frozen whole . Wash them lightly , let them run out on theme towel , and put the berries on a cookie sheet in the freezer . In a couple of hour , they ’ll be frozen and you could pack them in moldable bags , withdraw just what you necessitate for baking or yield smoothies .
Other foods such as dark-green beans and zucchini ask a straightaway blanching before freeze . Clean the intellectual nourishment and rationalize to the sizing you like ( for courgette a one - half in slice work out well ) , then omit the vegetables in water and moil for three hour . After cooking , place the vegetables in ice water to cool them immediately . Drain well and carry in deep-freeze bags . you may freeze out tomatoes as well for use in stews and soups . wash off the tomatoes and dip them in boiling water for 10 to 30 s to relax the tegument . Then , remove the skin , core the Lycopersicon esculentum , and pile them in container for freezing .
Raspberries ready for freezer
For a food that really tastes of summertime , weigh freezing pesto . When basil is abundant , make pesto using screwball , olive crude oil , garlic , table salt and basil . There is some debate among pesto freezers about whether to tot up parmesan cheese at this point or await until you serve it ; either approach seems to work fine . Once your pesto is made , spoon it into zip lock bags and lay the bags unconditional on a cookie bed sheet . immobilize them . You ’ll have minute little packet of pesto , which make for a quick and soul - bushel alimentary paste dinner in mid - wintertime , and take up almost no room in your freezer .
dry out is another selection for preserve food for thought . dry removes the piddle from food making them less likely to screw up . Dehydrators are available in a wide scope of price from under $ 50 to almost $ 200 . Dehydrating can be knavish and you might need to read up on it before prove it . Minnesotan Mary T. Bell of Lanesboro has several al-Qur’an ( Food Drying with an Attitudeis her latest ) and offers drying supplies atwww.drystore.com . you may also dry tomatoes in the oven by switch off them in half , salt lightly , if you ’d wish , and cooking them at about 200 F. for five to seven hours . Oven - dry love apple have an intense flavor and are delicious on pizza pie or in pasta sauce . Oven - dry out Lycopersicon esculentum need to be hive away in the icebox or freezer to prevent spoilage .
