| Holiday cooking [message #53323] |
Sat, 22 December 2012 13:47  |
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 Melissa Mead
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Registered: October 2008
Location: Albany, NY, USA |
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Anybody doing any? My husband's roasting 4 kinds of vegetables right now: carrots, beets, onions, and potatoes. I'd never realized how good roasted veggies are. (He's even gotten me to like sweet potatoes that way.)
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| Re: Holiday cooking [message #53325 is a reply to message #53323 ] |
Sat, 22 December 2012 14:56  |
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AJLR
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Location: England, UK |
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We often have a 'root roast' in the winter - leeks, carrots, parsnips, butternut squash, potato, swede, all cut up together with some seasoning and a little oil and put on the top shelf of a hot oven for about 45 minutes. Yumm. And with that we often have grilled salmon that's been marinated for about 30 minutes beforehand with some kecap manis and grated fresh ginger. Even more yumm.  (We also have a green veg such as brussel sprouts with the above, but I know people tend to be divided about the joys of that veg. We love them.)
Being just on the point of retirement, I'm looking forward to doing more cooking over the next year. This Christmas I'm sticking to the easy and traditional stuff. Red cabbage pickle was one of the easy ones.
"Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
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| Re: Holiday cooking [message #53340 is a reply to message #53339 ] |
Sun, 23 December 2012 18:35 |
amp15
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Registered: February 2009
Location: Denmark |
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Yes, but only in the sheltered areas of my garden. Denmark is about on the same latitude as Ann Harbor in Labrador, but the Gulf stream makes it much milder most years.
I barely managed to do my picking today before we had a minor snow storm, but tomorrow we're expecting thaw again. I've got no veggies left, but along my west wall I've got rosemary, thyme, sage and winter savory, and in a cold frame to the south there's chervil, fresh garlic, and a bit of rucola/arugula.There might be a bit of mint left as well in the crevices near the southern wall. My last veggies were a row of late peas, sown early august, they produced no pods, but the tips were still edible after the first freeze in late November. I was pretty impressed too when one of my Austin roses, The Pilgrim, also continued flowering.
Anette, the Great Dane
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