Canned food.

Anyone besides me think canned beans and asparagus sucks.

Reply to
DogDiesel
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Sounds like an awful combination.

Reply to
Frank

Been known to use canned asparagus.

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................................ Crab and Asparagus Soup With green onions and cilantro

Ingredients

2 Tbls. Peanut Oil 1/2 cup Shallots peeled and sliced 1 lb. Crab meat 4 cups Chicken stock 1 lb. Asparagus 2 eggs beaten 2 Tbls. Fish sauce 3 Tbls. Soy sauce

1 Tbls. Corn starch I Tbls. Water To taste white pepper

3 Tbls. Chopped Cilantro 3 Tbls. Chopped green onions ( Green Part only ) 1 Cup pea sprouts

Method

  1. Sweat the shallots in the oil over medium heat. Add the crab and Asparagus sauté 2 minutes stir gently

  1. Add chicken stock bring to a boil . Slowly pour in eggs while stirring gently. Use a Crockpot pot.

  2. Combine the corn starch and water in a small bowl and mix to make a slurry. Pour into the boiling soup while stirring and cook five minutes.

  1. Remove from heat and add the soy sauce, fish sauce and white pepper.

  2. Ladle into warm deep bowls and garnish with Cilantro, green Onions, Pea sprouts and tempura fried Asparagus spears. Serve immediately.
Reply to
Bill who putters

I assume you mean green beans? (The dried ones cook/can just fine). Those are two things that just don't can well. Add peas to the list.

Gary Woods AKA K2AHC- PGP key on request, or at home.earthlink.net/~garygarlic Zone 5/4 in upstate New York, 1420' elevation. NY WO G

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Gary Woods

Canned asparagus is compost not food. "Fresh" asparagus from the supermarket can be acceptable but it isn't good. Asparagus you cut 10 minutes ago is the real thing and a sublime experience as long as you don't overcook it.

David

Reply to
David Hare-Scott

Canned beans are ghastly and not worth eating. Canned asparagus is such a pale imitation of the fresh product that it's only good as an ingredient mixed with lots of other food.

Reply to
FarmI

Well thanks, i got that right.

Diesel.

Reply to
DogDiesel

Even better than cooked is to break off a spear and eat it in the garden. That assumes that they have not been sprayed.

Reply to
The Cook

Well, it's just canned food! In a gardening forum ... I prefer fresh things!

Reply to
Molie

Fresh is not always possible. In prefer canned foods over foods that are out of season that is shipped from all over the world. Fresh is better if it is locally grown.

There is the newsgroup: rec.food.preserving You might find that group very useful. They know allot about what you seek.

The bible of food preservation book is: Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving: 400 Delicious and Creative Recipes for Today [Hardcover]

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most vegetables requires a pressure canner, not just a pressure cooker. However, pickling vegetables is the best way to go. I prefer pickled asparagus over pressure canned. I prefer the taste of my own canned foods over store bought. Home canning does not have all of the chemical preservatives that destroy flavor. Also your choices of canned food selection is vast compared what you can find in the supermarkets. It does require work to make your own canned foods.

Reply to
Dan L

I have tried home made pintos and canned pintos. When I cooked them the difference was not as large as I hoped. Some relatives do a much better job cooking pintos and the difference is large. So it depends on the experience of the cook.

Most of the time stores near me have a wider variety of bean types canned than dried.

Comparing canned and fresh asparagus is sad. Over the years the variety of fresh veggies available in stores has grown and grown. A half century ago the availability of fresh veggies in groceries during the winter was limited enough that canned asparagus wasn't that bad.

I do like asparagus soup. It's easy with canned. It does work as an ingredient in certain recipes. Not 100% bad news but closer and closer as transportation gets easier and easier.

Reply to
Doug Freyburger

London *Ontario*Canada* here...

Home canned looks pretty good when you're up to your waste in snow.

Right now we have over a metre of snow blanketing the garden ...and the city's been more or less shut down for 3 days.

That said, with some determination and a shovel I could harvest some kale or some pak choi(which was still OK pre-snowfall). I just hate ruining the view right now.

Reply to
phorbin

I know what you mean and hope your well stocked in useful things.

Ps Santa is bringing me snowshoes soon. This so I can walk about and reduce the snow build up on my perennials. Last year stunned us.

Reply to
Bill who putters

I like canned better then frozen!

Reply to
fsadfa

Remembering the past. When I went to Michigan Tech University in the Upper Peninsula I went snow shoeing by myself on the golf grounds. I was curious and I took them off and jumped... I was up to my neck in snow. It took a half hour to get back on those shoes. I was well dressed though. Snow eventually came up to my second floor dorm room window. I loved seeing the northern lights every night high in the sky during the winter.

Reply to
Dan L

I think that you didn't mean quite what you said. But it is rather funny that way. Although maybe just a little bit "gross'"

LOL Emilie

Reply to
mleblanca

Hi Emilie,

I more or less meant it the way I wrote it. I think I didn't mean it=20 quite the way you've taken it :-)

Reply to
phorbin

waste vs. waist in snow? Don't know how your waste could make canned food look better.

Reply to
Billy

Ah... bugger...

Couldn't see that without help.

I hate it when I make unintended mistakes like that.

I'll let snow shovelling fatigue be my excuse. With all the extra physical exertion, I'm pretty close to waisted.

Reply to
phorbin

it's the auto spell checkers, they help and harm you. Mine does not just warn you with red underlining, it changes the word as you type. I like it and I hate it.

Someday I hope they add an auto grammar checker like in word processors to run in all applications. It would correct the context spelling as well.

One inch of snow today. Sunday predicting four inches. It's not much.

Reply to
Dan L

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