{"id":2495,"date":"2009-06-03T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/what-to-do-with-your-share-week-4-9\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T05:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:45:29","slug":"what-to-do-with-your-share-week-4-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/what-to-do-with-your-share-week-4-9\/","title":{"rendered":"What to do With Your Share &#8212; Week 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Garlic Scapes<\/strong><br \/>One of the delicacies of the season, garlic scapes are a treat and a necessity. We need to pull these flower buds from the hardneck garlic so that their energy goes into making a head of garlic underground, instead of a flower top. In the process we get a tender garlic green with a beautiful white base, that shades to light green, and is topped by a long, pointy bud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXcRXcC9CI\/AAAAAAAAAUU\/co1xKW-qbsw\/s1600-h\/garlic+scapes+060109.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342918723852497954\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXcRXcC9CI\/AAAAAAAAAUU\/co1xKW-qbsw\/s320\/garlic+scapes+060109.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Its uses are many. Our annual treat is to make a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairsharefarm.com\/info\/Newsletter\/2005\/v2%20I3w%20June%201.pdf\">pesto<\/a> with it. It is also great chopped and added fresh to salads, as a garnish for soups, or as an addition to homemade salad dressing.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fresh Strawberries with Homemade Yogurt<\/strong><br \/>As homesteaders, we are always looking for ways to become more self-reliant, especially when it comes to our food. One way to do this is to become more and more proficient with food biology ie, fermentation. From bread making to wine making to kombucha, you can tap microorganisms to do your bidding.<\/p>\n<p>One thing we\u2019de been talking about doing for awhile is making yogurt. Lori heard us and bought us some yogurt starter the other day, and we are hooked. Now we can turn our local Shatto milk into a tangy and tart fresh yogurt. The yogurt is the perfect accompaniment to fresh strawberries (with a little mint for garnish). Our next project is labneh (yogurt cheese).<\/p>\n<p>To make the yogurt take 1 quart of milk (you can use an old yogurt container to measure it into), and heat it in a saucepan to 180\u00ba F. Let it cool to about 110\u00ba F. Pour a small amount back into the yogurt container, add the starter culture, stir, and then add the remaining milk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXcpXmsJfI\/AAAAAAAAAUc\/Wn_pbZN_CiA\/s1600-h\/yogurt+making+1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342919136214001138\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXcpXmsJfI\/AAAAAAAAAUc\/Wn_pbZN_CiA\/s320\/yogurt+making+1.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXdKS_YYAI\/AAAAAAAAAUk\/_HuXRLoxhD4\/s1600-h\/yogurt+making+2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342919701911068674\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXdKS_YYAI\/AAAAAAAAAUk\/_HuXRLoxhD4\/s320\/yogurt+making+2.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stir again, cover, and place in your oven with the light on for 4 to 6 hours, or until yogurt is set and you can see liquid (whey) separating around the edges. Refrigerate to stop the fermentation and to cool.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXePG9LnbI\/AAAAAAAAAUs\/l3qwobNlK7M\/s1600-h\/yogurt+making+3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342920884091592114\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXePG9LnbI\/AAAAAAAAAUs\/l3qwobNlK7M\/s320\/yogurt+making+3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Place 1 cup yogurt in a bowl, add 1 cup strawberries and top with chopped mint. You can also add granola, almond slices or other garnish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXePSqvQhI\/AAAAAAAAAU0\/NJPHNbtZVBE\/s1600-h\/yogurt+making+4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342920887235461650\" style=\"WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IZpBNvaDJnw\/SiXePSqvQhI\/AAAAAAAAAU0\/NJPHNbtZVBE\/s320\/yogurt+making+4.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garlic ScapesOne of the delicacies of the season, garlic scapes are a treat and a necessity. We need to pull these flower buds from the hardneck garlic so that their energy goes into making a head of garlic underground, instead of a flower top. In the process we get a tender garlic green with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/what-to-do-with-your-share-week-4-9\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What to do With Your Share &#8212; Week 4<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69686,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions\/69686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fairsharefarm.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}