Basically just ground up pork rhinds… makes a nice crispy like breading… but has zero carbs.
I prep the okra, squash, onion all in one big bowl.
Just cut it all up to the size pieces you prefer and dump it all in a big bowl… then beat up a egg… or two (depending on qty) in a separate small bowl and pour it in the big bowl. Then in the big bowl stir it all up to get all coated with eggwash.
Then add your spices and breading materials to the big bowl and stir it up more to evenly distribute it.
Get your oil hot and fry it up. Turn it over in the skillet a few times… it will eventually brown up good. When it starts to blacken a little… it is normally just crispy crunchy with no slime left.
So…does anyone have any science based or experience based guide to know at what stage a J plum will continue to ripen after picking? Is it a brix level threshold? Does it vary widely my variety?
I assume the further away from natural ripening, the less flavorful the result will be.
Do they stay on the counter to ripen or does refrigeration help like it does for E pears?
Yeah, I’m thinking of the coming rain and the state of my FG pluots.
I pulled one today that has some rotting on the darkest colored, upward facing “seam”.
It was certainly sweet enough for eating, so maybe I’m close on some
my granddaughter and i picked my 2 indigo honeyberry bushes today. we ate all we could find. im sure we missed some but the bushes have grown together pretty thick. sadly my phone was in the house but she was purple from head to toe. my wife wasnt impressed and i owe my daughter a new outfit for her. hopelessly stained. lol!
Haha. I’ve had slimey too… last time in airplane meal but I’m pretty sure ive had it dries in bacon grease more recently that was pretty good okra. @TNHunter sounds great! I might have to try growing it again. One of the other boards someone offered to send me some seed. I’ll look back and see who.
Hollywood J plum seem to like these rains just as much… This is the 3rd lot of split fallen plums in two days. All is not lost, though. The fruit on one overloaded branch (suspended on a pergola) apparently does not get as much water as thinned branches so it will hopefully hold until ripe.
Well, mine wouldn’t even to do the “Don’t know what you’re talking about. I’m just a garden gnome.” act. He’d shark-dive after the peach on his left before you even considered saying “no”…
She’s really well-mannered but loves a ball, so I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt that she thought it was a ball tree. She has stripped a Jerusalem artichoke down to no leaves almost (it’s small) but if I catch her a simple no will stop her from whatever she’s doing. For now she receives blame for the peach haha but maybe it was a bird.
Our dog (and his predecessor) has a very strong “inner goat” (like inner child only more destructive to the garden). We have realised that a gate is more efficient than teaching a bull terrier to not be sneaky or have their own ideas about the whole human rules&authority bs… So the little pirate is confined to the smaller mostly ornamental garden and “paradise” is only accessible with a supervisor.
We have been in a rain deficit for the last 4 weeks, so if it holds off a little more, these will be fantastic. I may need to hit them with another round of captan to get to harvest.
