Canning
 

I put up nine pints of purple hulls and seven pints of cream peas today. We also have about a bushel of ripe fat juicy tomatos that should become soup base, salsa, and sgetti sauce this week, plus I have another bushel of purple hulls coming this week. I wish the heat and drought had not killed my garden, but I am glad other folks have had success. I am looking for local yeller crookneck squash to make squash pickles..... I love canning.....

How you doing?

GoodOlBoy

Thsi Yankee is going to bite!!!
 

What in the heck are purple hulls????

My garden is doing pretty good if I can just controll the crab grass that took it over last summer when I was sick. Plent of rain so far up here but not enough to flood it out.

What are purple hulls? ah man come on multi now I know ya gotta be yankin my chain! Purple hull peas man! They are a breed of blackeyed peas that have been in the south since there WAS a south.... That's like askin what a chicken fried steak is! :D Just givin ya a ration multi.....

I borrowed(stole) the attached picture(s) from other websites, later I will post pictures of what they look like canned (once my wife emails them to me)

GoodOlBoy

alright here are MY peas.

Enjoy,

GoodOlBoy

Learn somthing new every day. Everyone raises plain old green peas up here.

Never was into pea soups much until a bunch of guys working on a big construction project decided to throw a dinner for us yankees at our Eagles Club. They were a bunch of southern boys that had come up here for the work. A few of them went south to get the fixins.
Best dang eatin on this earth. Never heard of half of the stuff they served but it sure was good.

Just make sure you pack those purple hulls very good before you ship them to me.

Yeah multi we have some good good eats that ain't bad for you down here... and alot of good good eats that ARE bad for you :D

uhm popple, I am not supposed to ship home canned foods north of the manson/nixon line :D Ya know could be considered givin comfort ta the enemy by some of my peers :p

GoodOlBoy

But, I've spent at least a month every year for the last 20 in Louisiana. My Cajun friends call me a Yankee Coon A$$. I knew what purple hulls are and I like them. Your's look very good, must have been watering your garden. My friends in SW Louisiana are really hurting for rain, one has his own well for the garden, but is worried about salt water intrussion.

Glad ya know how to visit the promised lands Popple. My garden is DEAD, but my cousin has been watering his from the creek. Wish I had a pump and a cistern setup so that I could store water from the creek and do that! Heck makes it worse that all the springs feeding this part of the creek are on my land! Oh well I am buyin from him, and canning them.

GoodOlBoy

What, no canned ManBeef?

GOB,
Have you thought about one of these for your garden?

http://www.atlaspub.20m.com/rampg.htm

If the spring is below the garden and the run is not to far, it will work as long as water flows.

I was going to put one on my farm but the distance to the creek was to far and it was too far below my pond.
Ed

hey fbc long time no see.

rapier i have thought about it but i think it may be too far a run. the other thing i thought about was building a cistern on a 6-10ft tower and putting a solar pump on it running down to the springs. I dunno what I am going to do, but I have got to do something in the next year or so.

GoodOlBoy

Me I'll take my Boston North End Italian food. Don't grow too well in the garden but sure is good going down. And from the looks of me it stays with you for a long time.

Say what you want buckhunter, but I bet you some of the grandmother's cooking in some of the OLD Italian family places could make Italian from a Texas garden that would make you want to spit at the stuff you have been eating...

GoodOlBoy

GOB.

Well, In suppose you have ALL the required GUMMINT Licenses and Permits, Right? LOL!

Ya done real good on your garden, my friend. My back feels lots better so I rototilled both gardens and we will, again, donate lots of stuff to the nearby Food Pantry.

Be well.

Adam

Yes GOB my Grandmothers could make a meal out of just about anything. I've seen them make some good stuff out of nothing. When they grew up in Italy they had nothing and learned to live with nothing. Believe me when I say they lived thru WWII eating dirt and survive it say's something for the Greatest Generation.

Yes yes it does buddy. My grandfather, grandmother, and their parents, brothers and sisters all went through the great depression. These were the people that raised me while dad was defending the country. It's probably why I don't get along with so many folks my age, I have alot of respect for making something out of nothing.

GoodOlBoy

Ward
 

Talk like that could get the MB thread going again.
muledeer

Oh, I'm sorry.
I thought this thread was about BO's re-election chances... :D

More canning. So Friday we canned four quarts of homemade spaghetti sauce, this is a new recipe to us but it started life as twenty or so pounds of fresh tomatoes. Then thirteen pints of yellow crookneck squash pickles relish. Yesterday afternoon my cousin delivered the first of three unshelled bushels of purple hulls we ordered from him at around seven, by eleven they were all shelled and we were playing dominos. Hopefully I will get them canned today.

GoodOlBoy