What are you making with your Edible Harvests ?

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    I'm so interested in what others are making with their veg/ fruit Harvests this Autumn. Last night l made a our tea with home grown Tomatoes ,courgette, onion, with cheese sauce bake served with large baked potatoes, so only had to buy the cheese etc for the sauce. Tonight, just put on in slow cooker for casserole home grown apple, potato, onion,, pinch of rosemary with bought sausages. l always make soups on a Tuesdays and Thursdays, using what growing, for when husband gets back for his morning country walks with daughter and her dogs. Growing our own food in our small veg plot saves me and my husband a lot of money.
     
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      sorry, just found thread on site called 'what's cooking' so this is wrong place...
       
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      As a vegetarian, this thread is kinder on my senses than “what’s cooking?” I don’t think anybody here is in the habit of raising edible animals in their garden, so this thread is probably going to be confined mostly to fruit and veg.

      Today I’m cooking up an old traditional apple jam recipe that belonged to my mum. It calls for six different varieties of apples of your choice, including a cider apple variety. Luckily, I have a Tom Matthews that has given me six lovely cider apples, so they will go into the pot along with Bramley, Lane’s Prince Albert, Braeburn, Nonpareil, and Keswick Codlin and be topped off by nutmeg, cloves, and a few other spices.
       
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        That sounds lovely :) l make a slow cooker spiced apple and pear chutney from a old time WW2 recipe. l tweaked the recipe called 'Air Raid Chutney' and use a mix of pear and apples with spices added and l use ACV as l cant have malt vinegar. it works out really well and l make about 6 jars that l keep stored in my fridge rather than on Pantry. We eat very little meat ourselves , so if its ok with everyone l'll keep this thread going with veg harvest recipes, that l hope others will add to it :) l should have said we always cook with meat free sausages..l just dont like what they put into the beef or pork sausages.
         
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          Made a Autumn Veg soup this morning. Tea is hm Potato bake and dessert is hm Cinnamon Apple cake..all organic veg and fruit from our little back garden :)
           
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            I grow mainly fruit in my garden, so I've got apples, blackberry and rhubarb crumble for last Sunday pudding with bought ice cream, enough to have on Monday.
             
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              I grow red, white and pink currants, Gooseberries, we have them with our cereal as well as making puddings with them.
               
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                Crabapple jelly :)
                 
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                  Busy day in garden to day..so off to prep slow cooker meal . Trying out new recipe called 'Fall Apple Sage Chicken Casserole.' l want to use more sage recipes as iv found sage tea keeps my sinus infections away. We both had really bad covid a few yrs ago and l now get sinus infections easily, But found drinking 1/2 cup of sage tea , taken by teaspoonfuls across the day, stops it in its tracks. When l forget to drink it, l can feel it flaring up. Husband suffers as well with sinus, but wont drink the herb tea, so my plan is to sneak the sage into meals a few times a week. If anyone tries my herb tea tip, do research to check not allergic to herb. We had a very good first harvest of apples from our semi dwarf tree's we planted a few yrs ago, so will be making use of those. Lunch will be chive scrambled eggs on toast. l want to make use of all my chives from garden before it all dies back for Winter, so will do a search on pinterest for recipes. Again iv read chives are very healthy to eat. Dessert will be rest of warm Apple Cinnamon cake with a little whipped cream. That cake recipe was one not tried before, but was a winner as everything thrown into one bowl to mix.
                   
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                    I made a eve's pudding last night with half raspberries and half apples, it certainly went down well.
                     
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                      @Peaceful Gardener I'd love to have that cake recipe please. Sounds like a true winner as you say. One bowl wonders are wonderful!
                       
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                        I made this cake recipe a couple of weeks ago: Vegan chocolate courgette cake - Lazy Cat Kitchen

                        It was amazing! The only thing I changed was to cook it as muffins rather than a loaf cake; it made 14 and I baked them at 175C for 17 mins in my mini oven. They froze really well too.
                         
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                          2 cups SR flour (l only use gluten free)
                          l cup white granulated sugar ...with my home grown apples l only use this amount but if yr using cooking apples , you may need extra l/2 cup. (apples cakes are best with either cooking apples or golden delish apples, not dessert eating apples)
                          l teaspoon ground cinnamon,
                          2 eggs,
                          l cup oil ( l use vegetable oil)
                          and 3 cups golden delish apples, (peeled, core & slice about 1/4" thick slices)..( or use 3 cups of cooking apples)
                          mix dry ingred and wet ingred in a bowl..it will be a very thick and stiff batter , then stir in the sliced apples.
                          put the mixture into baking tin..(l use a sq 8" x 8")
                          bake middle of oven for approx 25 mins, then check if done or needs longer baking.
                          note..forgot to say when peeled & cored apples, cut them into quarters and then slice..or can cut them into chunks, but not tried that yet. Apples need to be a firm type that hold shape when baking, thats why golden delishious works well.
                           
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                              Use a measuring cup - you can get a set of them from the supermarket. They will work fine for all US recipes that deal in cups.
                               
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