{"id":1809,"date":"2017-07-24T13:44:38","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=1809"},"modified":"2017-07-24T13:44:38","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T17:44:38","slug":"putting-food-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/putting-food-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting Food By"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the time of year when there is an absolute abundance of vegetable goodness on the homestead so The Happy Homesteader is spending the day putting it up for winter.\u00a0 Green beans and shredded zucchini already fill the freezer from yesterday&#8217;s efforts.\u00a0 The green beans will be welcome when kale and spinach are the only things growing in my winter greenhouse, and the shredded zucchini can be easily added to a batch of oat bran muffins.\u00a0 Today, the cooked squash and zucchini, tomato basil soup and vegetable stock is in the works and those will be just as welcome when the temperatures hover in the teens.\u00a0 Yum!<\/p>\n<p>A vendor at the farmer&#8217;s market where I sell microgreens (who is also a vegetarian) told me how he uses all the extra squash and zucchini that he doesn&#8217;t sell.\u00a0 I thought it was an excellent idea so I&#8217;ve copied him.\u00a0 I chopped squash and zucchini and cooked it with salt, garlic and Italian seasoning.\u00a0 After draining the mixture, I put it in canning jars and put it in the freezer.\u00a0 This winter I will use my friend Jonah&#8217;s idea to add the mixture to frozen tomatoes or canned Marinara sauce to make a more &#8220;meaty&#8221; vegetarian spaghetti sauce.\u00a0 Great idea cause there isn&#8217;t a gardener anywhere who doesn&#8217;t end up loaded down with extra squash and zucchini!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0793-e1500915116505.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1806 size-full lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0793-e1500915116505.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><\/a>Organic vegetable broth runs about two bucks a container here in our little corner of the North Carolina mountains.\u00a0 I use one to two boxes every week.\u00a0 Hhmmm. . . seems to make sense to make my own doesn&#8217;t it?\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been freezing carrot and potato peels, green onion tops and squash and zucchini ends.\u00a0 It all went into the pot today along with garlic, salt and some of my dried thyme, sage and rosemary from the garden.\u00a0 A couple of hours on a low simmer and that will make a couple of quarts of some very delicious broth.\u00a0 Any vegetable tastes better when it&#8217;s cooked in broth rather than water<em>, <\/em>so the more broth I can put by, the better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0794-e1500915187987.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1807 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_0794-e1500915187987.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1000px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1000\/750;\" \/><\/a>And the plum and cherry tomatoes with basil?\u00a0 My friends, that&#8217;s gonna be the<strong> very first<\/strong> pint this year of The Happy Homesteader&#8217;s World Famous Tomato Basil Soup.\u00a0 So easy and soooo good!\u00a0 Just roast some tomatoes &#8212; I use Lemon Cherry and Riesentraube Cherry tomatoes along with some plum tomatoes &#8212; with garlic and onion until they have a bit of char on them.\u00a0 Then put them in a food processor along with fresh basil and some salt. 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