That’s a Wrap! Cooking From the Garden Harvest 2020

So I frequently refer to myself as the Organic Eater, but I don't often talk about the cooking I do. This fall I made plum salsa, tomato salsa, tomato sauce, a delicious squash soup and a fantastic apple pie filling.

Plum Salsa

I can't believe I don't have a picture of the plum salsa, but I do have a picture of the tree from July 21, 2020. I got the recipe from the Delish site from a post of 12 best plum recipes.

Soy Ginger Plum Salsa Yum!

I didn't have any fresh ginger, but I did have a container of crystalized ginger I had been adding bits of to my granola. And when it marinated in the salsa, it became all soft and added the perfect sweetness to the salsa.

The fun part was I actually had jalapeno peppers which I usually don't have but they were leftover from the tomato salsa I made in September. I had one lime, and the first batch I made I didn't have cilantro but I got some the next day because that is key.

I also used Bragg's aminos for soy sauce in the first batch I made and that was a big mistake. I don't have soy sauce in the house so the second batch I just left it out. I also didn't have sesame oil, but I think that would make it much more yummy.

My plums were tiny so I used about 20 in each batch at least. But Let me tell you the longer it sat in the fridge the better it got, that being said it was so yummy it was hard to not eat right away!

I baked the squash in a roasting pan on my woodstove first. I love this type of squash and I saved the seeds for next year.

The squash soup I got from In Jennie's Kitchen, but of course I did a few things different.

Since I had already roasted my squash in a pan, I started by sautéing a clove of garlic a tiny bit before I added the rest of the ingredients, stirring the whole time.

I didn't have fresh ginger so I just used powdered ginger that I added along with the bay leaf, tumeric, and I used curry instead of coriander and cumin. I didn't have lime or red pepper flakes either.

I like to top it with a dollop of fresh yogurt. Vanilla gives it a kind of sweet creamy flavor. And if I have some fresh cilantro I like to put that on top too.

When I reheated the last batch I added some milk to make it creamer.

Delish! I have to confess I didn't grow these squash but they were given to me by a dear friend who did indeed grow them herself.

Homemade French/Steak Fries

I usually love potato fans, but the other day, I tried making oven baked fries and they were so good!

Apple Pie + Filling/Crisp?!

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