My son brought home all of this & some peaches. Any recipes & best ways to preserve would help.
There's peas, tough okra, brand, peppers (different colors & types),cucumbers, zucchini, tomatoes & peaches. I only have a day or two to figure out how preserve these.
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If it were me, I’d make fridge pickles with the cucumbers, and the peppers I’d sauté, portion into 1/2 cup amounts and freeze for future use in everyday cooking, spaghetti sauce, etc. Honestly not sure how to eat overripe okra, it gets so tough and stringy. A lot of those beans look past their prime too. I’ve tried making dill pickled beans with tough beans and the result wasn’t great. With the eggplant, I’d make a curry or roast it.
To get ready for his next harvests (there will likely be more, right?), look at this sub’s wiki page for resources. Making water bath pickles and pickled vegetables is a good place to start because you don’t need a special canner. Do you have any canning equipment and supplies like jars and jar lifter, funnel etc, or would you be starting from scratch?
Sweet pickle the green tomates with onions
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Dehydrate and grind all of the spicy peppers. Make spicy pepper flakes for pizza, soup, etc…
I would check out our wiki for a list of safe relish and salsa recipes. that would be my go-to.
you can also string up the peppers to dehydrate them.
Chop it all up and pickle it as a relish. Kinda like chow chow. That’s how we always use up the odds and ends of the harvest.
Slice the tender okra and dip it in egg then a dry mix (flour, cornmeal, seasoning) and lay it single layer on a baking pan lined with parchment paper and place it in the freezer. When frozen, seal in storage (ziploc) bag in freezer for anytime fried okra 😋