Doggone it!

[AJB Temple]

This weekend my wife harvested the last of her summer produce. What are you supposed to do with 29 corn on the cobs all in one go? Plus 77 mostly red peppers?

I decided to make putative corn dogs, so they were blanched for 4 mins in salted water, ice bathed, quartered and vacuum packed. This is the first batch.

All now in the freezer. They will get rolled in bbq seasoning and deep fried or oven roasted as corn dogs in due course. We're having a spit roasted piglet for an event soon, so hopefully I will get rid of most of them then. The peppers all got roasted, de-seeded and stored in oil in kilnar jars.

 

[AndyP]

What’s your solution for an excess of marrows Adrian?
Boiled, stuffed, made into cake, soups and jam have been tried so far. When frozen they are only good for soup afterwards. We've had a bumper crop this year and am now sick of the sight of them.

 

[Mike G]

Far and away the best product from our veggie garden is sweetcorn. There is nothing, but nothing, nicer than a cob straight from the plant, boiled for a couple of minutes, then eaten within a few minutes of picking.

And there is nothing more disappointing than a sweetcorn which has been frozen, or stored for a week or two in the fridge.........no matter how you do it, and what you do with it afterwards.

 

[Mike G]

What’s your solution for an excess of marrows Adrian?
Boiled, stuffed, made into cake, soups and jam have been tried so far. When frozen they are only good for soup afterwards. We've had a bumper crop this year and am now sick of the sight of them.

Chicken food, Andy. They love them.

 

[AndyP]

True and she does get the ends but we are down to one hen at the moment and she couldn’t possible eat that much.

 

[duke]

This weekend my wife harvested the last of her summer produce. What are you supposed to do with 29 corn on the cobs all in one go? Plus 77 mostly red peppers?

I decided to make putative corn dogs, so they were blanched for 4 mins in salted water, ice bathed, quartered and vacuum packed. This is the first batch.
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All now in the freezer. They will get rolled in bbq seasoning and deep fried or oven roasted as corn dogs in due course. We're having a spit roasted piglet for an event soon, so hopefully I will get rid of most of them then. The peppers all got roasted, de-seeded and stored in oil in kilnar jars.

Corn dogs are a favourite of mine with yellow mustard.

 

[AJB Temple]

What’s your solution for an excess of marrows Adrian?
Boiled, stuffed, made into cake, soups and jam have been tried so far. When frozen they are only good for soup afterwards. We've had a bumper crop this year and am now sick of the sight of them.

Compost.

 

[AJB Temple]

Far and away the best product from our veggie garden is sweetcorn. There is nothing, but nothing, nicer than a cob straight from the plant, boiled for a couple of minutes, then eaten within a few minutes of picking.

And there is nothing more disappointing than a sweetcorn which has been frozen, or stored for a week or two in the fridge.........no matter how you do it, and what you do with it afterwards.

As long as they are blanched and iced straight after being picked, they are OK if vacuum packed and frozen. I had little choice really as we had a glut this year having had just a handful last year. Likewise the peppers. I would rather have everything fresh, but that's not how gardening works I am told!

 

[Pete Maddex]

10 pots of blackberry jam made on sunday to clear some space in the freezer.

Pete

 

[Tiresias]

Marrow can make a perfectly good Indian pickle. And it’s ok in some curries. But can be very watery. At boarding school it was always stuffed with mince and baked. Hmmm.

We have just done the final addition of sugar to our cassis. That’s us supplied for another year.

Other than that every thing else is gone from the garden (except for some late apples). We had the last of the (tiny) courgettes on bruschetta with salami last weekend.

Which reminds me. When I was in Brussels I saw and bought the following completely pointless article.



It was less than €10. And it does actually work. But utterly unnecessary. Looking at it I wonder if Stanley made a version of it.

 

[CHJ]

What’s your solution for an excess of marrows ......

A couple diverted to the production of Marrow Rum springs to mind for some reason.

 

[AJB Temple]

Marrow can make a perfectly good Indian pickle. And it’s ok in some curries. But can be very watery. At boarding school it was always stuffed with mince and baked. Hmmm.

We have just done the final addition of sugar to our cassis. That’s us supplied for another year.

Other than that every thing else is gone from the garden (except for some late apples). We had the last of the (tiny) courgettes on bruschetta with salami last weekend.

Which reminds me. When I was in Brussels I saw and bought the following completely pointless article.

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It was less than €10. And it does actually work. But utterly unnecessary. Looking at it I wonder if Stanley made a version of it.

That's like a mandolin but even more dangerous

 

[AndyP]

Compost.

All but the very best ended up as compost already.

A couple diverted to the production of Marrow Rum springs to mind for some reason.

Sounds interesting but can’t imagine that it would ever get drunk around here.

 

[Tiresias]

That's like a mandolin but even more dangerous

You are not wrong. But I only bought it for a laugh. My partner was appalled. And, incidentally is not allowed to use it. But it does honestly work. But then so does a knife…

As an aside I think I have three mandolins. But you only cut yourself on them once. Bloody hurts.

 

[Mike G]

As long as they are blanched and iced straight after being picked, they are OK if vacuum packed and frozen. I had little choice really as we had a glut this year having had just a handful last year. Likewise the peppers. I would rather have everything fresh, but that's not how gardening works I am told!

Yes, they always come in a glut. You can't really stagger the planting as they need to pollinate each other. We've tried everything, including what you're doing. Best of luck with it, but we haven't had any great joy ourselves.

 

[Mike]

Corn dogs are a favourite of mine with yellow mustard.

I think Adrian is describing something completely different than the North American corn dog.

 

[duke]

Oh, never thought of that, what is a British corn dog?
Just sliced corn on the cob?

 

[AJB Temple]

Yes, they always come in a glut. You can't really stagger the planting as they need to pollinate each other. We've tried everything, including what you're doing. Best of luck with it, but we haven't had any great joy ourselves.

What does work is to shred the corns off and make, for example, Chinese style shredded chicken and sweetcorn soup. This freezes and reheats perfectly. We shall see re the corn dogs. I know they wont be like fresh buttered corn, but the dogs thing is a different beast and may be OK. I will report back.

These are the dogs. They call them ribs at Fallow, and they are using fresh, but I think mine might work.

 

[AJB Temple]

You are not wrong. But I only bought it for a laugh. My partner was appalled. And, incidentally is not allowed to use it. But it does honestly work. But then so does a knife…

As an aside I think I have three mandolins. But you only cut yourself on them once. Bloody hurts.

Yep - did you see the Clarkson's Farm episode where he did exactly that. I use a Benriner a lot, and also a small ceramic mandolin. I don't use the guards much. Never cut myself so far but I have seen what they can do close up in a pro kitchen when someone was careless.