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Post by Clipper on Aug 24, 2023 16:17:17 GMT -5
Kathy cooked a dozen ears of fresh corn and I made a pulled pork butt in the crock pot with a bottle of sweet and spicy BBQ sauce, a teaspoon of liquid smoke, two cups of OJ, and 2 heaping tbsp of brown sugar. She has a peach cobbler in the oven made with fresh peaches. YUM! Hot cobbler later with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream on top. The fat boy is eatin good in the neighborhood today, hahaha.
She always freezes a half bushel of freestone peaches when they first hit the produce markets fresh picked from Georgia. Cobbler tonight and tomorrow she will slice, add sugar, and vacuum pack the rest of them. I paid $40 for a half bushel box. If they come down I may buy more but half of a bushel should be enough for us considering the fact that she has 25 quarts of Strawberries frozen.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 25, 2023 8:13:13 GMT -5
Wow. I was watching CREATE TV and heard that Georga didn't produce as many peaches this year due to weather problems at the start and that most of the peaches in the market today are from California. I like peaches also I cyt up fresh ones and put them in a cup of plain non fat yogurt for dessert .
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Post by kit on Aug 25, 2023 9:05:54 GMT -5
I drive from south Utica to the other end of Rome to a farm called Ankens for sweet corn. They pick it every day (a lot of it) and the ears are big, juicy, tender, and sweet. It's a several mile drive but it's worth it.
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Post by Clipper on Aug 25, 2023 9:06:39 GMT -5
Wow. I was watching CREATE TV and heard that Georga didn't produce as many peaches this year due to weather problems at the start and that most of the peaches in the market today are from California. I like peaches also I cyt up fresh ones and put them in a cup of plain non fat yogurt for dessert . These were Georgia peaches. The weather problems in Georgia may be why they were higher in price this year. Kathy says that they were only $30 a box last year. One has to wonder if there is any difference in quality or taste between Georgia peaches and California peaches. I would imagine that there isn't, and chances are they are the very same varieties in most cases. Produce prices are terrible lately. Kroger had green bell peppers for 79 cents each, but the yellow and red ones were a buck and a half apiece, and almost 7 bucks for the tri-color "stop light" assortment package. |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 25, 2023 9:59:54 GMT -5
I know the Anken Farm well. I took my original EMT course many years ago with Patty Anken at the Rome campus of MVCC. We too always bought our corn there. Joey Juliano in Schuyler always has good corn too. I worked with him and his dad at Griffiss. Nice people and their corn was always to die for. I love the big ears of the older varieties. I am not fond of what you see at the farmer's markets in later years with little ears and little kernels. Kroger has a big bin of corn the other day. It was those little tiny ears and was 50 cents an ear. The husks were dried up and when I pricked a kernel with my thumb nail there was very little milk to be found. A self-respecting dairy cow would probably turn up it's nose at it. I suppose one could use the dried-up husks for tamale wrappers and throw away the ears, lol.
We will probably only get one more batch of fresh corn from the older gentleman down the road. He does several plantings a week apart so that it is not all ripe at the same time. He said he will be starting to pick the last planting on Monday.
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Post by Atticus Pizzaballa on Aug 25, 2023 14:00:15 GMT -5
Wow. I was watching CREATE TV and heard that Georga didn't produce as many peaches this year due to weather problems at the start and that most of the peaches in the market today are from California. I like peaches also I cyt up fresh ones and put them in a cup of plain non fat yogurt for dessert . These were Georgia peaches. The weather problems in Georgia may be why they were higher in price this year. Kathy says that they were only $30 a box last year. One has to wonder if there is any difference in quality or taste between Georgia peaches and California peaches. I would imagine that there isn't, and chances are they are the very same varieties in most cases. Produce prices are terrible lately. Kroger had green bell peppers for 79 cents each, but the yellow and red ones were a buck and a half apiece, and almost 7 bucks for the tri-color "stop light" assortment package. The green bell peppers at Walmart are 88 cents each! But the tri color package is close to $3.00. |
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Post by Clipper on Aug 25, 2023 16:00:34 GMT -5
I could not understand why two more peppers, regardless of color, raise the price to almost 7 bucks for 3 stinking peppers. One red or yellow pepper is $1.49, but add the green one and the price of the green one goes from 79 cents to a buck and a half also. I asked at customer service and they told me that they don't determine the prices. Kroger headquarters does. Yup. When in doubt blow smoke up someone's ass rather than to come up with a logical answer.
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