In Season Recipes

So happy to have a DS who loves the woods. He brought home a 5 pound "hen of the woods" (type of mushroom). It was huge! We had "chicken" and biscuits last night -- I used a "Red Lobster" biscuit recipe to top the cream sauce -- yummy!

Tonight I'm going to try making "chicken" enchiladas. Because of its size, we are drying the remainder... We already have a small amount of dried morels in the freezer so I'm glad to add to them!

Was too sick to process all our tomatoes, so many went into the compost . But still have tomatoes on the plants so all is not lost!

Yes, Teka... they are delicious, have a texture similar to chicken... and cooked correctly, have a similar taste. We only eat easily identifiable "wild" mushrooms. Anything that has look-alikes we avoid. And, anything that looks like a super-market mushroom we also avoid -- they have too many look-alikes in the woods! We've got a book on native Missouri shrooms and that helps. Looking for chanterelles this weekend!

To process lots of fresh tomatoes for sauce, try the Greek way. Wash tomatoes, cut out the flower/stem in a cone cut. Then, on a coarse grater, grate the tomato, cut end first. The skin spreads out and protects your hand. It goes really quickly and saves both the peeling and the chopping.

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Hello Everyone,

My DH and I hunt morels, and just love them, did not find many the last couple of years but enough to enjoy a few meals! A lot also hunt pink bottoms here but I am not sure so don't maybe some day! We are thinking of growing some, I tell them at work that lately I feel like a mushroom so when I leave next winter I may learn to grow my own!! I am staying on at my company until the end of January, taking my 4 week vacation coming back for a few days in March and then leaving, but will come back as a sub contractor to do some teaching on our software as most are new in the past 6 months and the software takes a long time to learn, Just tired of the long drive, and the changes are at times tough to deal with.

Sounds as if the wedding went well, looks like a nice restaurant! I love the pumkin idea, will go out later today and see if I have any pansies growing I can transplant!!

Garden is almost done, a banner year. Lots of good stuff put up. I made a celery apple salad today using our wild apples, celery from the garden, maple pecans, raisins, our home made apple pear cider, a little pure maple, a little mayo and some yogurt, tastes good!

We did a lot of cider one batch was apple pear and I canned some pure pear juice to use to can some fruit in next year. The other batch was all apple and had 17 people here to help it was a great day. The 5 year olds had too much fun washing the apples and everything else near by! Will make sweet potato pie for Thanksgiving I think, have pumpkin but not sure how ripe and we have lots of sweet potatoes. I grew some French "Cinderella" type pumpkins, I think 2 may be ripe will try the small one tomorrow!

The wines are doing well, we had so much fruit we made a lot, will not do much next year as this will last awhile! We bottled the rhubarb, the strawberry is ready to bottle, we have golden sweet cherry, apple pear, gooseberry/josta berry, concord, and some apple jack all brewing! Will keep me busy bottling this winter. It was one of the best fruit years we remember. We are still enjoying some of the late everbearing red raspberries, I like them fresh with yogurt, cherrios, cream cheese!

Have a great Fall, it has been wonderful weather here, just getting crisp, but nice enough to enjoy a walk and go outside!

Just finished canning "Christmas Pickles" with our end-of-garden large cukes... I am amazed I got it done despite my fatigue. Tonight I expect our first frost, so have to pick garden herbs and start drying them.

I love fall also... I just don't like the work that goes with it this year!

When the leaves start falling and there is a chill in the air, soup really hits the spot. I've always wanted to make butternut squash soup- but it seemed like it would take too long and be too much work. I found a recipe that is easy and delicious-Roasted Butternut Squash Soup on the Chow website. Not too many ingredients and while the squash is roasting you can do other things-like rake leaves!

Thank you, Teka!

Butternut squash is great with butter, a little cream and some cinnamon or made into a soup-tastes kind of like pumpkin or sweet potatoes. I'm in Kentucky and we have several weeks before any snow, there are still a lot of leaves hanging on. Fall is my favorite season too...I always have more of an urge to cook and bake.

My oldest daughter's birthday was last week and she wanted a pumpkin layer cake with caramel frosting. then I made some pumpkin bread for a few neighbors and pumpkin muffins for my family! haha -by Thanksgiving I'm all pumpkin'd out until next fall!

Are pumpkins hard to grow? What are hall-less seeds?

Need help ladies... my DS went foraging again and came back with wild persimmons! I now have two cups of persimmon pulp.

Does anyone have a favorite recipe? I've found online recipes for pudding and "fruit leather" but was hoping someone had a tried and true persimmon recipe (preferably one that travels well for Christmas gifts).

6 cats, sorry no persimmon recipes, not sure I have ever had it.

Teka do you grow pumpkins that provide hulless seeds? If so what kind are they?

Lynn1234 I am using the French "Cinderella" style pumpkins right now to cook with, we had mashed pumpkin last night, salt pepper, a touch of cream and pure maple (could use brn sugar) a little butter it was really good! I am going to make pumpkin pie squares for card club and then soon make pumkin muffins and I have a recipe for pumpkin bread rolls sounds good so will try! Welcome to this site!

Cinderella pumpkins-How fun! Sounds like you're crazy for pumpkins, too!

Are pumpkins hard to grow? Maybe I'll try to plant some seeds next spring. I do not have a green thumb at all but would love to try. I wish I has a persimmon recipe for you. Does it have a sour taste?

Pumpikins are easy to grow there are lots of varieties so you want to know what you want to do with them, you need room but there are some that are a type of bush that take less room. I will try one of the hulless varieties next year. You want to look at days also the French ones are hard to ripen here, I only had two that ripened but will try again next year. Once I try my newrecipes for muffins and rolls will post them. Making pumpkin pie bars for card club tomorrow.

Lynn on the persimmon you could try a sweet and sour sauce using the mash or a glaze for pork or chicken, you could reduce and add a sweetner if needed. We do this with apple cider, plum pulp, berries. Add enough liquid id you need to, bring to a boil, turn down and simmer until reduced by half, taste and swetten if needed but this makes a nice fruit glaze f or poultry or pork. Tomorrow I will make a pork roast and glaze with apple cider reduction.

Hi, I haven't posted anything on this thread, but made this yummy recipe yesterday and thought it should be enjoyed!! Sweet Potato Bars - Dr. Weil's Healthy Kitchen - DrWeil.com

Enjoy!!