check your cold-storage veggies!

patandchickens

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... she says, having discovered what it was that I left off my "to do" list from before I went to PA last week and it got cold.

The totally-full kitty-litter bucket of fingerling potatoes that was in the attached garage is all ruined. Am boiling up a few to see if they will make edible mashed potatoes or soup-thickener or such, but am not optimistic. Garage max-min thermometer sez it got down to the low 20s F in there, potatoes were frozen solid when I remembered them just now.

Phooey. We'd eaten most of them already, but still, bad Pat.

Check yer stuff. (Also for rot, of course)

(e.t.a. - enh. Tried some. They are flabby and fit only for smashing or mashing, but should be salvageable for that type purpose. I am eating some in my spinach curry right now. I guess this afternoon I'd better make some time for scrubbing and boiling up and mashing a bucketful of potatoes for the freezer)

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Good advice....but total bummer for you.
 

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Yeah, I forgot a bunch of onions and winter squashes on my porch and in my garage that I meant to put into the cellar before it got too cold. :/ I may try to boil-peel the onions and puree them into some spaghetti and pizza sauce that I need to make. Its a lot of onions, though. Sheesh.
 

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The sweet potatoes are doing fine. We canned the potatoes. Didnt have enough onions. And I neglected the apples and pears. Everything is accounted for.
 
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