Garden Goodies

Here are a couple of photos showing some of our garden produce.

The top photo is a bowl-full of Aji Limon peppers.  They are spicy with a fair amount of "sneaker heat", and, in addition to the yellow color, they actually do have a nice citrus-like flavor.  I turned these into a fermented brined-pepper mash.  Very tasty, and a good way to preserve garden produce for the winter.

The second photo shows the winter squash we got this year.  There are several varieties shown here:  Cinderella pumpkin (the large orange guys), Kuru (small orange), Buttercup (small dark green), Sweet Meat (medium-sized gray-green), Butternut (oblong tan fruits), and Queensland Blue (medium sized gray-green, ribbed).  The Kuru and Queensland Blue were new to us this year.  We like the Kuru -- we put it in a batch of Mussaman Curry last night.  The Queensland Blue is very hard and dense, but the flavor is not as good as the others.  Our overall favorite winter squash:  Sweet Meat.  Best keeper:  Butternut.