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Originally Posted by 1owlzfan

Tomatoes, onions, and lettuce.

Im real picky about my onions. I really prefer red ones but Pearl onions can go with any stirfry IMO.

Cabbage....Cut it up,fill a quart jar with it,put some white vinegar and pickling salt in,pour hot water to the top and cap..and voila..in a few months you have Kraut! Fried with some ribs and you have a feast fit for a king!!!

This year we only did tomatoes and peppers. The deer have just about wiped it out. One of our favorites is fried bannana peppers.

Originally Posted by Habib

If they're right of the vine I love eating them like an apple.

I hope you meant vine...I've never eaten a tomato plucked from a van. :creepy:

That is my KY accent coming out through my typing.

Tomatoes, corn, radishes (white radishes as well) along with green beans are my favorites. I like most all veggies fresh from the garden.

Originally Posted by Royal Uncle

Some of my faves from the garden are:
(1) Cucumber salad - cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and banana peppers w/ some Italian dressing.
(2) 1/2 Runner green beans - these are the best, a few strings never hurt anybody.
(3) Wilted lettuce - fresh lettuce just cut and washed, chopped up w/ some fresh onion, then add a little hot bacon grease.
(4) Fresh corn on the cob. I love speckled white and yellow sweet corn.
(5) Zuchini bread or deep fried zuchini are both great.

We generally can about 50 quarts of green beans a year, freeze as much corn as we can, can countless quart jars of tomatoe juice, and can about 150 jelly jars of salsa we make ourselves w/ tomatoes, peppers, and onions we grow in our garden.
We also make kraut, some regular, some w/ hot peppers for that little extra burn in the can. And we make salt and bread and butter pickles. I should have bought stock in the Kerr Company that manufactures Mason Jars.

The wilted lettuce is my favorite early Spring food. Fixed as you stated , served with fried potatoes and momma's made from scratch buttermilk cornbread and fried squirrel with gravy.
We also enjoy tomatoes,corn,cabbage,green beans,green onions, and cucumbers.
My wife cans beans,corn,kraut,pickles,& tomatoes that we enjoy through the Winter months.

Originally Posted by cvillecat

The wilted lettuce is my favorite early Spring food. Fixed as you stated , served with fried potatoes and momma's made from scratch buttermilk cornbread and fried squirrel with gravy.
We also enjoy tomatoes,corn,cabbage,green beans,green onions, and cucumbers.
My wife cans beans,corn,kraut,pickles,& tomatoes that we enjoy through the Winter months.

^^^ That does it!! Cville unlock the door - I am on my way over!

Originally Posted by oldrambler

^^^ That does it!! Cville unlock the door - I am on my way over!

You know you are always Welcome at our dinner table, but you better get here early.

^ Lil' Cvillecat (who is not so little anymore) is back at college so I may have chance at there being something left.

Tomatoes with a little salt. I'm up to about 3 or 4 a day right now. They give me blisters in my mouth, and my skin breaks out....but it's so worth it. Something to do with the acid according to the doc. Oh well! I'll just continue to torture myself for a few more weeks until they're all gone.

Originally Posted by MsKitty

Tomatoes with a little salt.

Nothing much better than that.

I really like a home grown "mater'" sammich - sliced tomatoes on white bread, salt and pepper and drown in in mayo. ( I like blue plate mayo)
Ummmm Ummm, that is slap your grandma good!!

Fresh Tomatoe off vine and make a BLT sandwich. I love green beans, corn on the cob, cucumber's and most fresh home gound veggies. JD

Originally Posted by MsKitty

Tomatoes with a little salt. I'm up to about 3 or 4 a day right now. They give me blisters in my mouth, and my skin breaks out....but it's so worth it. Something to do with the acid according to the doc. Oh well! I'll just continue to torture myself for a few more weeks until they're all gone.

Put a little garlic salt on them and then chill them for 20 minutes in the fridge...It dosn't get much better than that.

Originally Posted by nees1212

There's nothing better than a ripe tomato right out of the garden. There's no comparison between one just picked from a garden and one bought off a grocery shelf.

I agree, I do not eat store bought tomatoes.

Originally Posted by buckman41ss

Put a little garlic salt on them and then chill them for 20 minutes in the fridge...It dosn't get much better than that.

I haven't heard of doing that. I'll try that myself.

Originally Posted by sweet16

I agree, I do not eat store bought tomatoes.

I just can't do it either, the taste of those things are not even close. Don't know what those things are is but it sure ain't a mater !

In Lewisburg, just outside of Maysville, there's a produce auction on Tuesday and Friday nights. Lately, prices have been along the lines of:

Corn (usually Ambrosia, Silver Queen, etc.) - $2.50 to $3.50 per dozen
Tomatoes - $4.00 to $5.00 per 10-pound box; $3.00 or so for 20 pounds or more of canners
Watermelon - $4.00 each
Zuchinni - $2.00 to $3.00 per peck
Bell Peppers - $4.00 for a box of about a dozen big ones
Canteloupes - $1.50 to $2.50 each (several varieties)
Cabbage - 50 cents to $1.50 per head
Green Beans - $7.00 for 10-15 pounds
Grapes - $2.50 per quart

I usually try to make at least once a week. Now that FB season has started, they'll have to get along on the Friday sales without me.

Best bargains of the year - 30 pounds of white potatoes for $4.00; half bushel of peaches for $4.00.

I love fresh veggies.

Originally Posted by Royal Uncle

Some of my faves from the garden are:
(1) Cucumber salad - cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and banana peppers w/ some Italian dressing.
(2) 1/2 Runner green beans - these are the best, a few strings never hurt anybody.
(3) Wilted lettuce - fresh lettuce just cut and washed, chopped up w/ some fresh onion, then add a little hot bacon grease.
(4) Fresh corn on the cob. I love speckled white and yellow sweet corn.
(5) Zuchini bread or deep fried zuchini are both great.

We generally can about 50 quarts of green beans a year, freeze as much corn as we can, can countless quart jars of tomatoe juice, and can about 150 jelly jars of salsa we make ourselves w/ tomatoes, peppers, and onions we grow in our garden.
We also make kraut, some regular, some w/ hot peppers for that little extra burn in the can. And we make salt and bread and butter pickles. I should have bought stock in the Kerr Company that manufactures Mason Jars.

I love and do all of this too. I have a new healthier version of the wilted lettuce. Instead of bacon grease heat up some chicken broth....healither and taste good too.

Just checked my fall garden and it is really looking good. Cucumbers, Zuchinni, Yellow squash, radishes, spinach, leaf lettuce , bib lettuce and mustard greens.Still getting 20-30 tomatoes a day and several peppers.

Originally Posted by cvillecat

You know you are always Welcome at our dinner table, but you better get here early.

How early?