HaarFager's photos with the keyword: Vegetables

Some celery I was dicing up.

I did some more home canning last week and this is what I canned. 19 quarts of vegetables such as potatoes, green beans, carrots and corn; tomato juice and hamburger. My mother used to call it hamburger goulash, but it's not really a traditional goulash recipe. But it sure is good on those long, cold winter nights. Just open, then heat and serve.

I picked five more tomatoes today, June 2nd, 2023, off the experimental tomato plants I'm growing in my library. They're doing fine!

A G.I. Joe figure on one of my tomatoes.

I was so surprised to see my tomato plants are finally starting to put on fruit from all the blossoms. This must have been the first tomato, because it's the biggest; I also saw a couple others. I only planted them a month ago and tomorrow it will have been exactly a month. Taken on June 24th, 2022 with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR. This particular plant is one of the three Cherokee Purples I planted. The tomato looks big, but it's actually only about the size of a pea.

I bought some tomato plants today and planted them in my yard. I just love fresh tomatoes. One plant was a "Better Boy" variety, a hybrid; while the other three were a "Cherokee Purple" - an heirloom variety. Taken on May 25th, 2022, with my Sony Alpha SLT-a77V DSLR.

Another pepper in my series. Camera: Minolta XG-SE Lens: Minolta MD Zoom 28-70mm, f/3.5, @ 70mm 1:5 macro Film: Fuji Film Neopan Acros 100 (expired 06/2015) Shooting Program: Manual Aperture: f/22 Shutter Speed: "B" (bulb) 5 seconds Date: October 8th, 2020, 10.22 p.m. Location: Norris City, Illinois, U.S.A. Developing Chemicals at 68 degrees Water pre-soak: 5 minutes Caffenol CM-RS: 11 minutes Water rinse: 1 minute Ilford Ilfostop stopbath: 1 minute Water rinse: 1 minute Ilford Hypam fixer: 5 minutes Water rinse: 2 minutes Kodak Photo-Flo 200: 1 minute Minolta XG-SE Fuji Acros 100 Fountains 2020 36ff

For dinner tonight, I cooked grilled salmon with hollandaise sauce, scalloped potatoes and breaded okra. I'd never tasted, or made, hollandaise sauce before, but it complimented the fish perfectly. The place setting is an antique and was hand-crocheted by my Grandmother Wright. I was cooking all day - for lunch I had a mushroom and cheese omelette, with fresh organic mushrooms, and in the afternoon I made some banana-nut bread. Yum yum! I'm sure glad I can cook!

This pepper looked photogenic lying there in the produce section, so I bought it and brought it home to memorialize in a picture. I also shot it on film. This was lit from above and shot at f/36 for 25 seconds, @100 ISO. I also used two white reflecting cards to cast light on the front and sides of the pepper.

Last Saturday, this is what I fixed for lunch - grilled salmon with sugar snap peas and some sunrise medley bite-sized potatoes. I marinated the salmon overnight then sprinkled it with dill weed and grilled it using my panini maker to give it those gorgeous kind of grill marks. The potatoes were cooked with butter and parsley, while the peas were sauteed using garlic and butter.

The week before Thanksgiving, I cooked a turkey and made a batch of turkey vegetable soup to can. This was the first batch of seven quarts out of the pressure cooker. I ended up getting 11 quarts of soup and 3 quarts of broth. (The pressure cooker holds 7 quarts at a time, so I filled up the second batch with broth to make 7 quarts.)

This is only my second tomato this year, and it's a dwarf one. For some reason, this year's growing conditions are all mixed up and I'm not getting any big tomatoes like usual. Taken just a few moments ago in my yard.

I checked in my garden this afternoon and found a few different things ready to pick. Some more jalapeno peppers, some green beans and one ripe tomato. Unfortunately, the birds must have gotten my bean sprouts as they broke through the ground because out of three long rows I planted, I only had one plant reach maturity.