Playing d&d (remotely* as we have since Covid started) and thinking about going outside to pick the last of the tomatoes and eggplants from the polytunnel since it dropped below freezing at some point last night.

Green tomato relish or mincemeat?
Probably the latter since I picked up apples on sale a couple of days ago.

I guess I should also take advantage of the day off to dehydrate the apples and basil that is still alive. Or maybe pesto for freezing.

Hmm.
Decisions.

Going to run and take pics and probably grab the tomatoes before my turn comes back around.

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Okay, I went to take photos and discovered very little had survived in the tunnel, except one small eggplant, that, now that I think about it, I should have grabbed to bring inside with the peppers.

So I picked what was worth grabbing.
(I really need a basket with a handle. I think it all the time, especially when putting stuff in sad bags for collecting.)

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* one of the benefits of playing remotely is I can simultaneously do a bunch of low-attention tasks like cleaning and editing simple videos, like the one I am going to drop later on Why People Need To Counter Caryma Sa'd's Many, Many Lies. I still hope we'll be able to get back to gaming in person at some point. I've been playing with this particular set of people almost as long remotely as we did in person.

#dnd #GardeningWithAnarchists #gardening #cookstadon #GigiGarden #canning #preserves

I don't know if you caught it, but a few weeks ago [some guy claiming to be] Harlan Sanders' grandson [or great grandson, I don't actually remember which] decided to share the KFC secret recipe with the world. I don't know the context of why he did such a thing, but I'm totally willing to test it out. Mind you, I haven't eaten KFC in rather a long time so I'm going by my memory here.

1. Sage — 1 tbsp and ¼ tsp
2. Cloves — ½ tsp
3. Nutmeg — ¼ tsp
4. Cinnamon — ½ tsp
5. Red pepper/Cayenne — 2 pinches
6. Coriander — ½ tsp
7. Ginger — ¼ tsp
8. Garlic powder — 1 tsp
9. White pepper — 1 tbsp
10. Black pepper — 1½ tbsp
11. Cardamom — 1 tsp (secret ingredient)

Add salt and use 3 cups of cake flour.

Well I don't have cake flour on hand at the moment, so I'm just using unbleached all purpose, and it does taste like I remember.

Served with a Greek salad (minus the feta) because I'm going to be eating these damn tomatoes for another month at least, before I even have to break into the home-canned tomatoes. Yes, it's yellow and brown tomatoes in the salad tonight because that's what's ripe at the moment. It is a proper Greek dressing with lemon and oregano, though.

Edited: because I meant to attach more pictures relevant to the gardening hashtag. Edit a second time because I have no idea if this person is actually related.
#gardening #cookstadon

My #forage bag runneth over!

With the last batch, I put down some nocino/nocello, but these are a week later, and the black walnuts (there are both black and English walnuts in the first pic) were already starting to form shells, and now you can see the green pith starting to shrink and show the shell outlines.

The next images are the nocino/nocello when it first went in [2]; two hours later [3]; and today.

Black walnuts make for a super dark liqueur.

#foraging #cookstodon #cookstadon #drinkstodon

36hrs hours maturation #sourdough with honey

#foodporn #pizza #wekneadtotalk #dough #cooking #cookstadon

Made mole and salsa (vistoso?).

#cookstadon #cookstodon #nomnomnom