It's been a fantastic year for tomatillos here at Three Bird Farm. It's also been a warm autumn, but with our first real frost in the forecast, we harvested the remainder of the crop. Much of this will be turned into enchilada sauce and frozen for flavorful winter meals. We'll eat a bunch of them… Continue reading The Final Tomatillo Harvest
Category: tomatillos
Big Day on Our Little Farm
Today was pear harvest day, and it was a great crop! We blended and bottled our first hot sauce for the season! We roasted a nice big tray of tomatoes, garlic and herbs. We finished the day with a beautiful piece of halibut from our dear friends at Jess's Fish Market. We made a grilled… Continue reading Big Day on Our Little Farm
The Garden Still Giveth
23 September 2020 It may be fall, but the vegetable garden is still taking good care of us! Charred Shishito Peppers with Garlic Lemon Yogurt Dip Late September fire 26 September 2020
Enchilada Sauce from Our Tomatillo Harvest
Prepping the purple tomatillos for enchilada sauce You'll remember that earlier this summer we posted a picture of our purple tomatillo plant and expressed major excitement over this new-to-us plant. Well we're even more excited that we're now harvesting tons of tomatillos! This batch is going to become enchilada sauce. Enchilada sauce from our purple… Continue reading Enchilada Sauce from Our Tomatillo Harvest
Purple Tomatillos
Purple tomatillos (12 July 2020) This is our first year planting tomatillos, and Ret, who makes a mean enchilada, is especially excited. These are purple tomatillos that our good friend Lisa shared with us. We'll keep you posted on how they turn out, but we're expecting great things!