A slow cooked pork stew on a snowy day tastes even better loaded with foods from last summer’s garden. One tasty stew addition to the stew pot is sweet potatoes. Loaded with root vegetables potatoes and sweet potatoes, plus garlic, onions and carrots. Mild and sweet yellow sweet potatoes and homegrown garlic are from the garden. Here is a great post to read on the best garden and tree falling services.
White and sweet potatoes make this rich pork stew an even hardier winter fare.
From the summer farmers market: locally grown shiitake mushrooms – dried in the dehydrator and stored in plastic ziplock bags.
Home made tomato soup, several versions of stew and chili are wintertime mainstays here at the Hobson Estate.
Home grown tomatoes, garlic and peppers enhance the flavors of pork chili. photo PBH
As we wrap up winter, it’s inventory time for the deep freezer and pantry. We ran out of salsa around the first of the year. So, I need to grow more tomatoes (plus, onions, garlic, peppers, herbs)
We need more salsa, crushed tomatoes, spaghetti sauce, sun dried tomatoes, even more tomato soup.
Today, I think, “I can never have too many tomatoes.” In August, that will be a different story.
Paste tomatoes, Arkansas traveler, Giant Martian, Gold Medal
August:
“What was I thinking!?”
