Fresh-n-Tasty Veggies (in the winter!)

My husband, Mike and I used to be garden dabblers. Last year we wanted more homegrown produce so we started expanding our garden. Easy enough when you’ve got the space around you.

Mike: Easy for you! I put in those new gardens. It was Hard work!

Molly: OK, OK, Mike toiled all Spring to put in a whole set of lovely gardens for us in the backyard. Happy?

Mike: That’s more like it…

An unforeseen problem arose from our garden expansion. What to do with all these perishable veggies? Our main go to technique is to blanch and freeze them so that we can enjoy them in the dead of winter.

When we did this for the first time last summer I was a bit skeptical. Would they last in the freezer? How would they taste? We stored them for up to eight months and they tasted stupendous!

Step 1 Materials needed

Materials:

Scissors (to cut the leaves)

Cutting board

Knife

Bowl

Pot with steamer insert

Colander

Small baggies

Sharpie marker

Scale (If you want to be anal about it. Right Mike?)

Comments

[fegundez1]

excellent way to show how its done, I have been too lazy to learn how to properly do the blanching so I now have a monster worm farm. Now the worms will have to make do with leftovers!

[Chicken Girl]

Your worms must love you! If you have a compost pile throw a few in there too.
After a party we filled our worm farm with the used paper plates. They ate them for a few days and than moved over to our crappier compost. Lesson learned: worms can be picky eaters :)