For the love of Produce...

AnnPT77

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I (foolishly) planted multiple zucchini plants and have the happiest veggie garden I have ever had this year! I'm inundated! Good thing I'm inventive, and love zucchini!

I also have an enormous amount of Tomatillos growing, I think I'm going to be canning a lot of salsa verde!!

Oooo, lucky you (more like clever, industrious you)!

Visions of chilaquiles dance in my head, with tomatillo salsa, roasted sweet corn, black beans and other goodies in the mix. But that's probably not calorie-efficient, is it?

Alatariel75

mtaratoot wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I (foolishly) planted multiple zucchini plants and have the happiest veggie garden I have ever had this year! I'm inundated! Good thing I'm inventive, and love zucchini!

I also have an enormous amount of Tomatillos growing, I think I'm going to be canning a lot of salsa verde!!

Keep your eyes open; you'll almost certainly have volunteer tomatillos next year. Perhaps for several years! If you have volunteer squash, they won't breed true so good luck figuring out what they are.

I recently learned that planting an avocado seed from one from the supermarket won't give you an avocado tree of the same variety as you bought, because of the grafting! Fascinating!

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I (foolishly) planted multiple zucchini plants and have the happiest veggie garden I have ever had this year! I'm inundated! Good thing I'm inventive, and love zucchini!

I also have an enormous amount of Tomatillos growing, I think I'm going to be canning a lot of salsa verde!!

Oooo, lucky you (more like clever, industrious you)!

Visions of chilaquiles dance in my head, with tomatillo salsa, roasted sweet corn, black beans and other goodies in the mix. But that's probably not calorie-efficient, is it?

Yum, that sounds amazing! I could definitely make that fit my calories!

I also have radishes (sooo much better fresh from the garden), cucumbers, cucamelons, eggplant and tomatoes! I love my garden this year!

SafariGalNYC

AnnPT77 wrote: »

@SafariGalNYC, I haven't seen that squash around here yet, but I love Winter squash. If you feel inclined, could you let us know how you like that one after you try it, maybe a mini-review?

Still my all-time favorite so far is an heirloom called Georgia Candy Roaster, banana-shaped, pale orange skin (sometimes with a bit of tan), huge - like 18" long or so, maybe 10 cups-ish once roasted and smashed. It's not (despite the name) crazy sweet, but very meaty, moist but not excess juice when roasted, rich flavor, with especially large seeds that are great for roasting.

It's not a long keeper, but I try to buy several in Fall to roast and freeze, usually around 25 2-cup freezer bowls. I've mostly only seen it in farmers markets, rarely in a few small stores that buy produce locally. I blew it this Fall because other parts of life got seriously complicated.



That's a normal good-sized kitchen cleaver in there in front of the back (uncut) squash, for scale.

Happy Thanksgiving all! 🍁

Re @AnnPT77 - that Georgia candy squash looks awesome!! I have to look for those!

My MFP produce review- 🤓
The Koginut squash has become one of my favs! When I first opened it, the fragrance was like a cross between a watermelon and papaya.

So I baked the koginut squash for 45 min at 400 - the texture is more velvety than butternut. It carmelized a bit more than the butternut I also had roasting. Perhaps it has more sugar?

Butternut I find has a very mild taste, I thought the Koginut was more complex and slightly fruity. Really nice. A keeper at our house!

mtaratoot

Alatariel75 wrote: »

mtaratoot wrote: »

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I (foolishly) planted multiple zucchini plants and have the happiest veggie garden I have ever had this year! I'm inundated! Good thing I'm inventive, and love zucchini!

I also have an enormous amount of Tomatillos growing, I think I'm going to be canning a lot of salsa verde!!

Keep your eyes open; you'll almost certainly have volunteer tomatillos next year. Perhaps for several years! If you have volunteer squash, they won't breed true so good luck figuring out what they are.

I recently learned that planting an avocado seed from one from the supermarket won't give you an avocado tree of the same variety as you bought, because of the grafting! Fascinating!

It wouldn't be ~from~ grafting, but if avocados don't breed true, then you have to graft them to get the fruit you want. When you graft, you take a piece of scion and graft it on to a root stock (or onto a branch). What you get from grafting is the advantage of one root system with the branch qualities of the scion. Apples work the same way. To plant a particular variety of apple, you graft the scion of the apple you want onto some rootstock that may be resistant to some disease and also defines the size of the tree.

However, like a squash, they don't breed true. An apple seed will not propagate a tree that grows the same kind of apples as that fruit came from. We had a squash plant once that we thought was some weird zucchini. It turned out to be some weird winter squash kind of thing. It was tasty enough, but we never really figured out the best way to cook it.

I didn't realize that avocados don't breed true. Of course I can't grow avocados here; they aren't hardy enough in the cold. Heirloom tomatoes breed true. Hybrid tomatoes don't.

Aint plants fun?

AnnPT77

@SafariGalNYC, thank you for the detailed review (with photos, even)! The Koginut squash sounds really intriguing, different from the pack: I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for it here, so I can try it. Looks/sounds yum!