Jeanne Lumpia

[Guest guest]

Hi Jeanne,

Yesterday a Filipino member posted a recipe for her lumpia's but she said she

used swamp cabbage. Many of us were trying to figure out what type cabbage it

is. I felt it might be Napa cabbage. I don't have a recipe but I have eaten

the vegetarian version and they are delicious. Look oin the Asian recipe

folder, I think there are a few recipes in there.

I want to come pick veggies from your garden.

Happy cooking, Donna

" The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. " Old Swedish proverb.

[Guest guest]

Ah ha! From what was online, swamp cabbage is like hearts of palm but I'd prefer

real cabbage. Sounds yummie and the TVP version of pork is pretty good.

 

I found Romanesco - Romanescu...some seed companies call it a cultivar of

broccoli, some cabbage, some put it in its own little section. Anyway it goes, I

wants it! Yes, we wants it, Precious. Gotta stop watching Lord of the Rings.

 

I had to put my paw down last night. Carl found yet another cultivar of beets.

GAH! Don't get me wrong, I love beets, honestly, but 6 different cultivars and

500 FEET of beets? Ye Gods and little jujubees, it isn't like there are more

than 2 of us in this house who eat them. We'd be having beet pancakes,

beetaroni, beets and rice, beets and beets, beet salad, beet greens, beet

smoothies ...ok, stopping there before I get us all ill.

 

Mmm...bread and butter beet cubes on salad...

 

It isn't like my darling tomatoes! I can justify each one of my tomato

cultivars.

 

Sort of.

 

Um...Well, ok, so I won't actually DIE if I don't get to plant Mr. Ugly or

Con.... oh whatever that one is called, the Italian Ugly, but they make awesome

sammiches. Yum...mater sammiches. Hell's little coral bells, those tomatoes are

why I learned how to make mozzarella, for pity's sake! Haven't quite got the

hang of milking goats yet, but show me a cow and I can milk her till she's good

and stripped.

 

After all, I gave up THREE broccoli cultivars and settled for just Green Comet.

No greater tomato love hath I that I give up three cultivars. (But I am going to

sneak in that Italian heirloom by Harry Lauder's Crooked Walking Stick!)

 

The man just has to see reason! 100 feet of 3 types of beets is eeeeeeenough

unless he buys me the pressure canner I need. Blathering Batchelors Buttons, you

know how many love lies bleeding beets we can grow in 100 feet?

 

OK, beside the point, neither do I, but I'm betting I could fill a couple dozen

quart jars. Yeah. Other people use pints for those suckers. They haven't met

Carl yet. *note: reminder - pinch suckers off tomato plants.*

 

Oh, since some on the list may be of An Age where the doctor does the turn your

head and cough thing, a little hint. Do Not Eat Bunches Of Beets Before The

Doctor Visit. They're red. Get it? Trust me. Carl's doctor thought the man was

in trouble.

 

Oh darn. Someone went and exploded diet Coca Cola all over the monitor. Sowwy.

 

Jeanne in GA

PS: really, honestly, can any of you come up with more reasons for me to add a

couple more rows of tomatoes???? I've got maters for sammiches, tomatoes for

paste, tomatoes for sauce, tomatoes canned whole and more for sandwiches. I've

got red ones, pink ones, purple ones and ugly ones but yet, I have no banana

tomatoes or pear tomatoes or even grape tomatoes. I am tomato depraved! Er...I

mean deprived.

 

Oh Euporbia. I just recalled that me, myself and I will be canning all this

stuff. Forget I asked for excuses to add more tomatoes to the garden.

 

Hugs, Jeanne in GA

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi! The vegetable dish I posted is known as Adobong Kangkong in the Philippines,

I have searched for its corresponding english name in the cookbooks but sadly I

could not find one. My mother says Kangkong and Swamp Cabbage are the same.

Sorry, I forgot to mention to put a little soy sauce when cooking the dish. One

of the cookbooks i have read, Spinach can be use, in case Kangkong is not

available.

 

I will be asking my mother for her Lumpia recipe.

 

God bless.

 

Belinda