{"id":15132,"date":"2014-10-01T18:39:16","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T00:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=15132"},"modified":"2014-10-02T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T12:40:11","slug":"the-local-vegetables-and-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2014\/10\/the-local-vegetables-and-the-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"The local vegetables&#8230;and the weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetables and the weather&#8230;not things you&#8217;d think go together.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t.  Well, except what bad weather does to things in gardens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So, Veg:  tomatoes, beets and cabbage figure prominently in last and this week&#8217;s menus.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8522.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8522.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As noted 2 weeks ago when I bought the last of the Farmer&#8217;s market tomatoes&#8230;I ate what I could and processed the rest into sauce.  I used some of the sauce and then decided I needed to freeze what was left.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d seen a blurb on using paper cups &#8211; vs ice cube trays (too small) or flat zips (good!) and decided to give the cups a try.  I found paper cups with no wax or other &#8220;stuff&#8221;.  Hopefully, I can peel off the cups, dump the 3 oz of tomato sauce in a pan, slowly heat and &#8220;Bob&#8217;s your Uncle&#8221; &#8211; the perfect bit of tomato sauce for 1!!<\/p>\n<p>The freezing part went fine.  The peeling and thawing and use&#8230;to be cont&#8217;d at a later date.<\/p>\n<p>Next up is the beets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8525.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8525.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I bought the beets, I also bought some spicy sprouts.  I LOVE a sandwich of beets, goat cheese and sprouts on my own rustic seed bread.<\/p>\n<p>But, browsing beet salad recipes&#8230;so as to also use the greens&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I ended up mashing several recipes to make a roast beet galette:  beets, caramelized onions, capers, HORSERADISH! and goat cheese and my own <a target=\"Brioche\"  href=\" http:\/\/beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=9560\" title=\"Brioche\">Brioche<\/a> dough for the &#8220;crust&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8526.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8526.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kind of pretty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8530.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8530.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kind of beautiful and VERY delicious.  I had 2\/3 for supper and the other 1\/3 for a breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>Yum.<\/p>\n<p>On to the cabbage.<\/p>\n<p>Still enjoying cabbage salads, but an experiment is ongoing this week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8528.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Veg8528.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sauerkraut in the making&#8230;details after fermentation is complete.<\/p>\n<p>So much for the vegetables&#8230;now for the weather!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Weather.jpg\" target=\"Large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/beardogco.com\/WPBlog\/blogimages\/Oct14\/Weather.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a September that couldn&#8217;t decide whether to be summer, fall or one occasion winter&#8230;October starts decidedly and beautifully Fall!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vegetables and the weather&#8230;not things you&#8217;d think go together. They don&#8217;t. Well, except what bad weather does to things in gardens&#8230; So, Veg: tomatoes, beets and cabbage figure prominently in last and this week&#8217;s menus. As noted 2 weeks ago when I bought the last of the Farmer&#8217;s market tomatoes&#8230;I ate what I could and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-weather"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15132"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15145,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15132\/revisions\/15145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}