Our Plum Trees Loaded With Unripe Fruit

       Last year at plum season I was searching around for something to do with plums besides jelly(as I have plenty of that from last season), and canned plums which I am not very fond of.  I decided to make a plum sauce for meat. I did not have a lot of time, because I was about to leave for camp. So I made it up, and threw it into the freezer. Last night I finally tried it on pork strips.
    The original recipe I came up with involved running the ripe plums through my food mill, and cooking the sauce with onions, garlic, some vinegar, and sugar, and then blending it all together in a blender. Then I returned the sauce to a pot, and cooked it all down real thick. Then I just tossed it into the freezer, and basically forgot about it until last night.
    Last night I blended some of the sauce with soy sauce, and brown mustard, and added just little bit of pineapple juice. Let me just say, YUMMM! This was a fantastic meal! We had the Plum glazed pork strips,  Roasted potatoes, and onions, and salad with Poppy Seed dressing. It was a very good meal!
    Today I am planting Peas and Fava Beans. This year I am planting Tall Telephone shell peas, and Mammoth Melting Sugar peas, and probably some Super Sugar Snap peas.. I like all the different forms of peas. They each have their purpose in the kitchen. The shell peas make a nice table vegetable, especially with new red potatoes, or in cream sauce with baby onions. The Super Sugar Snap peas are wonderful and a nice fiber vegetable, to serve in butter, or as a finger snack. Most of these get eaten right in the garden(by me!). The sugar peas are really nice when making Asian dishes, particularly in stir-fry.

    I am in the process of writing a book. I am writing a cookbook.  When it is completed, I will be releasing the book on CD-Rom. I plan to enforce a 5 year copyright on the book, after which I plan to allow the book in the public domain. I'm not much of a believer in egregious copyright laws. I think it is more than acceptable to earn some money, and then let it go for the use of others. It is my intent to create a series of youtube videos immediately preceding the release of my cookbook. This will be a fun and educational experience I think!

                        Here is one of my gardens from a few years ago. This was quite a productive garden that year. However, the bean teepee did not do as well. Needed to put the mulch down before I put the teepee in.