Is it really a vacation unless you let loose a little with what you are eating? Come on, what is vacation without a little extra fat, salt and sugar in your diet? You might as well stay home, have a bowl of All-Bran and go to work.
Category: Cooking
Fresh cider, apple juice or sweet cider. Anyway that you name it, it is truly a sign of the fall harvest. This year my wife bought a cider press from Happy Valley Ranch. We have our own small apple orchard, so we were planning on pressing apples from the backyard. However, when you have a nice cider press, you start looking around for other sources of free apples.
Tina has a friend that has a large apple tree in their front yard. For the most part these apples get tossed to the horses. When Tina hold her friend that we had a cider press, the next thing that I knew, we had 7 bushels of apples in our garage waiting to be turned into cider. Two weekends ago we processed enough apples to press about 14 gallons of apple juice.
This weekend we picked a pickup truck load of apples. We pressed about 30 gallons. Most went into the freezer, but some was consumed fresh and 6 gallons when to my friend, Andy, for some hard cider.
I remember as a kid that there were a few houses that we would go trick-or-treating to that had fresh cider. I can now understand the pleasure of sharing a cup of fresh cider. I don’t think that I an quite ready to try to bring that tradition back for trick-or-treat, but many of my neighbors will look forward to cider season.
Cheers!
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Fall Harvest Recipe #3 (Curry)
This variation for sweet meat squash takes its inspiration from India. I am not an Indian cook. This is a cuisine that I am just starting to learn about. Since the sweet meat squash seems to lend itself to vegetarian cooking, I wanted to see how a spicy curry would work.
Curry powder is a generic term for a collection of spices. Each curry powder is different from different manufactures. I have a spicy curry powder from Sharwood’s. The jar I have is labeled “Sharwood’s Tandoori Spice Curry Powder”. It is a blend of ginger, cinnamon, fenugreek and other seasonings.
Ingredients:
- 1/4 Sweet Meat Squash cut into 3/4 inch cubes (about 3 to 4 cups)
- 1/2 medium yellow onion, diced
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 2 – 3 tablespoons vegetable cooking oil
- 2 tablespoons Sharwood’s Tandoori Spice Curry Powder
Directions:
- In a wok or large non-stick pot, heat vegetable oil.
- Add garlic and onion and saute until tender.
- Add sweet meat squash and continue to cook. We are just trying to bring a little browning to the squash.
- Add curry powder to taste. The squash takes on a beautiful red hue on top of the the orange flesh.
- Place into 9×9 dish and cover with foil or parchment.
- Bake at 350 F for 45 minutes, or until tender.
Serve with steamed rice.