Friday, January 7, 2011

GTTC - the freezer section

This week's Garden to Table Challenge post comes from the freezer section - pretty weak you're thinking, but ho ho! I felt a good bit of pride while picking through a few ziploc bags on a search for frozen goodies to eat. See the kid with the pre-breakfast lollipop, coonskin cap and princess nightgown? She's helping me make some steel-cut Irish oatmeal for breakfast.


After 25 minutes of pot-watching, the kids ended up with bowls of hearty and delicious lightly sweetened oatmeal topped with cream and sugared strawberries.


I had my oatmeal topped with Swedish pearl sugar (an IKEA purchase) and lingonberries from the two little plants I put in this year. It's probably due to the lean environment in the Greenish Thumb garden, but the plants did not produce many berries. In fact, they were pretty much harvested a berry at a time. I collected them in freezer berry-by-berry knowing I'd be able to enjoy them one day. The lingonberries are fantastic. They're like a really flavorful and pretty cranberry (and don't require a bog to grow in!). They plants are small and not too fussy. I put them in the border of my perennial garden - near the front door so I wouldn't forget about them.


Meemsnyc gets a letter for "potatoes" in her last post that she linked to the GTTC (see the rules in the link up top if you're confused). Someone needs to provide her some competition!


16 comments:

  1. I didn't know oatmeal could look so tasty with the berries! Steel cut oats are good and much better than regular oatmeal...i think. Love the first photo! That is a great outfit she has going there. :)

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  2. Hi Wendy, i replied to your comment on my post on forcing bulbs to flower. You might not read it there so came here too. I suggested that for an experiment for 5yr-olds you can also use germination of mungbean or alfalfa seeds. After soaking in water cover one treatment with black cloth, then the other will receive normal light. Maybe for lighted treatments, one use a dim light and the other normal light. You will see that the covered with black cloth will have very long radicles, and very white. What about that?

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  3. I do agree, that is some yummy looking oatmeal.

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  4. Those lingonberries sound amazing, I have never tried them but they do look like an excellent addition to your oats. I'm off to do some reading on them...I like that coonskin cap.:)

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  5. Yummy!! Looks delish!! I finally got back on the linky bandwagon. Sorry for falling off!

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  6. Lingonberries? LOL You are making this game tough! hahahaha I love Lingonberries and had no idea you could grow them in the states. I've only seen them in products at Ikea. I especially like the lingonberry jam they sell there. I just got a package of Irish oatmeal, I'll have to recreate this recipe only with strawberries.

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  7. Your oatmeals look delish and I don't even like oatmeal (I know....I'm a crazy). But I would certainly give the one with the lingonberries a try.

    I've got nothing but back in the freezer, so now garden to table activity for me.

    So...I couldn't find the link to explain the "potatoes" reference. What did I miss?

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  8. My lingonberries have formed a dense ground cover, but I have yet to see a berry. I agree that the taste is amazing. Guess I will have to plant some more in a sunnier spot.

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  9. The colours of your food presentation is marvellous! Red berries on white oatmeal... not only look Christmassy but really attractive also (appertising!) :-D

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  10. I didn't know lingonberries even grew here!! I'm a fellow NOVA area blogger and am glad I found your blog. However, you can keep the racoons!! Love the little girls outfit. :o)

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  11. The first picture brought an instant smile to my face...I wish I could dress like that! :-)

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  12. The breakfast look so yummy!
    The lingonberries are totally new to me!

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  13. Coonskin cap?!!!?! Are they back?!


    OK, the oats look awesome. But for the very best oats -- rolled, cracked, whatever -- cook 'em in CREAM. Ay yay yay. We had them for breakfast at The Crask Inn in the Scottish Highlands, years ago, and we thought we had died and gone to breakfast heaven. Who knew!?

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  14. That looks mighty tasty. My freezer is my primary resource for food preserving and meal planning. I have blueberries in there that I picked 4 years ago that are still delicious in muffins and other recipes.

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  15. She's really cute! Your oats creation certainly looks yummy.

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