{"id":72,"date":"2007-02-26T01:50:42","date_gmt":"2007-02-25T13:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=72"},"modified":"2007-02-26T02:01:26","modified_gmt":"2007-02-25T14:01:26","slug":"tasty-little-morsels-from-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"Tasty Little Morsels from the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As well as growing our own vegetables here on the Farmlet, we are hoping that we&#8217;ll eventually be able to grow a lot of the seasonings we use on our food. The first step in this direction has been to plant a variety of culinary herbs. We are also keen to grow as many spices as we can. Today I spent some time harvesting coriander and celery seeds. I&#8217;ll save some of the coriander for planting, but mostly those seeds are to be kept to fill our spice jars.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border: 0px solid black; padding: 15px 15px 40px; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; width: 448px; height: 336px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" style=\"border: 0px solid black\" src=\"\/images\/corpods.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Coriander seed pods<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the future, we hope to try growing and harvesting other spices: fennel seed, caraway, fenugreek, cumin, mustard and possibly even saffron, though I&#8217;m not sure how it would do here. We are also enjoying the spicy flavours of jalape\u00c3\u00b1o, cayenne and Thai chili peppers in our late summer meals.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border: 0px solid black; padding: 15px 15px 40px; background: white none repeat scroll 0% 50%; width: 448px; height: 597px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"448\" height=\"597\" style=\"border: 0px solid black\" src=\"\/images\/jalthaipeppers.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<small>Jalape\u00c3\u00b1o and cayenne chili peppers<\/small><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"float: left\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=cryptogoncom-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1931498237&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=ADC71E&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr&#038;nou=1\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I picked a bowl of nasturtium seeds a couple of days ago to make nasturtium seed &#8220;capers.&#8221; They are a lactic acid pickle, the recipe for which I found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWild-Fermentation-Flavor-Nutrition-Live-Culture%2Fdp%2F1931498237%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1172411838%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&#038;tag=cryptogoncom-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Sandor Ellix Katz&#8217;s book, <em>Wild Fermentation<\/em><\/a>. The recipe worked really well, and the nasturtium seeds do end up tasting very like capers!  <em>Wild Fermentation<\/em> is a fantastic book with lots of exciting recipes in it. I recommend it for anyone who&#8217;d like to explore the delicious and health-giving world of fermented food. The recipe instructions are clearly written, and I love the fact that they are interspersed with anecdotes featuring Katz&#8217;s colourful collection of friends. There is even an anecdote about milking goats. This is my kind of recipe book! I tried out Katz&#8217;s recipe for &#8220;sour beet pickle&#8221; today with the first of the beets harvested from the garden. Can&#8217;t wait for it to ripen so that we can taste it! Perhaps by next Autumn we&#8217;ll be growing our own caraway seeds for making sour beet pickle.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as growing our own vegetables here on the Farmlet, we are hoping that we&#8217;ll eventually be able to grow a lot of the seasonings we use on our food. The first step in this direction has been to plant a variety of culinary herbs. We are also keen to grow as many spices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-recipes","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farmlet.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}