We ate spinach all winter by clipping off the outer leaves. Now spring has arrived as well as the spinach is enormous, so time to freeze. So far I have put up 12 quarts as well as my freezer is full. So that shall have to do…
It is amazing how spinach cooks down. If I come residence with a big grocery bag full from the garden, I manage to freeze approximately 3 quarts.

Harvest spinach
Wash leaves as well as trim stems
Heat a very large pot of water to a boil
Fill clean sink with icy water

I came residence again today with a huge bag of spinach from my garden. The freezer is full. I have frozen mucho spinach this winter. This is Austin as well as I have been harvesting the spinach I planted in October since December.
I couldn’t eat another spinach salad or any more steamed spinach so I made this Indian dish.
Ingredients

toor dal 3/4 cup
 fresh spinach 8 cups
tamarind paste 1/2 tsp.
oil 2 tsp

My onions  red, white as well as yellow Granex are in the ground since mid January as well as now I am planting my white as well as red Kennebec potatoes on behalf of harvest in late May. President’s Day is too late to plant in Austin as well as Valentine’s day is the last best day to plant. Some people put them in in late January.
I am harvesting my leeks right now as well as really enjoying frying them up with potatoes .
We are still eating brocolli, brussel sprouts, cauliflower, red as well as green cabbage, spinach, collards, kale, lettuce, beets,  carrots,  rutabaga , spinach, turnips as well as herbs-cilantro, parsley as well as dill- from the Fall garden. However the rutabaga as well as cauliflower are now all harvested.
I went to Carol Ann Sayle’s Boggy Creek Farm talk last Friday as well as learned that water can split the cabbages. As we got rain I guess that did it. I thought it was rats as well as was happy to know that it wasn’t.Read more >>>

With an abundance of sweet potatoes in my pantry I have been combing recipe blogs on behalf of what to do with them all. Here is a simple groundnut stew that uses sweet potatoes. It makes 4 cups. Groundnut is the common African word on behalf of peanut.

1 medium sweet potato
1/2 onion
1 TBSP canola oil
1 tomato
1 turnip
1 carr

My fall/winter garden is going terrificly except on behalf of the lettuce. The lettuce I planted in October is coming up too slowly. Next year I shall plant in September.  Right now we are eating salads with green leaf lettuce and spinach. This could be worse but I would like more lettuce as well as less spinach.
I started some seeds in my backyard  in a 25 gallon black pot so if it freezes I can cover them with a blanket as well as still have some fresh lettuce. But these I started in early November as well as they are just babies.
Next year I shall follow the advice of the folks at Angel Valley commercial farm who say their best varities are red leaf, romaine, green leaf as well as butterheads.

     &n