Herb processing

My steps are as follows: put herb in ninja and blend some you'll need to add something to to help it blend better I find once frozen oil lasts longer then water but be smart about how it's used too 

Once blended well (I had to add some water be careful as too much can happen quickly) 

Transfer to named and dated ziplock lay on something flat and freeze (once frozen I stick them in the door) 

The rungs in my freezer (side-by-side) don't always work well and some of the top bags are a little thick you'll get a feel for how it goes 

Then once you need break off a chunk and use it as desired lazy enough but also works well enough for me 

Note: that's the personal size cup on the ninja 1500 it can mince anything at all smooth or danged near whatever works for you feel free to use it but I do stuff as full as possible I've learned the limits of my ninja well worth knowing I think 

Have fun y'all and good luck! 

Processed

I haven't processed anything new yet I was planning to today then stayed up all night and mucked so meh 

Have y'all seen little trays with herbs and oil or the herb/oil/such squeeze bottles? There's also dried herbs that we have some of 

This is from the salsa because I didn't grow quite enough 

This one has the oil further down and me personally I don't trust gmos so I try to avoid most soy canola and corn so when I process I'll use water or olive oil depending 

Here's my older processed I throw them in personal size and blend if it won't that's when I start adding the oil or water depending on how I intend to use the herb ex: oil with mint when it goes in tea prolly not smart but water with lemongrass when I'm frying it up would prolly work better --once I have a paste type thing (it's all chopped/combined) then I pour into a ziplock (I go thru them like nobody would believe!) lay on a flat to freeze and toss into that spot oh and label too! On a wire rack not so cool and thinner works better to break pieces off as you need but too thin is pointless I'd say 1-2 cm ish is good thinner is not gonna work nor will thicker (damage bag while breaking bits before grabbing) in English that's about a half inch or so as a max and a quarter or third inch as ok range yup looking you'll see different ranges those ones are pretty good in there 

Have fun y'all! 

Quick recon and wrapping up the season

Mostly pics as I got lazy recon is before work a few days ago and today's pics are after trimming to process the tomatoes/such may have a couple ripe showing depending on where I was and while I know I should have watered today I didn't 

Mints/herbs 

Big shot flowers herbs peppers lemongrass and tomatoes 

Peppers

Catnip and peppers 

Herbs 

Goji peppers and lemongrass 

Bottom part of goji 

Lettuce 

Herbs/mint

Lettuce/tomatoes 

Tomatoes 

Table top 

Raspberry and peanuts

Tomatoes and peppers

Sunberries

Tabletop tomatoes 

Subvert closeup

More sunberries

Old harvest (I just love the indigo rose tomatoes made mom a slightly spicy salsa with some of the fish peppers) 

Inside by the light note: these were watered after pics were taken

Succulent garden

Aloe

Aloe/dragonfruit

Pineapple

My ONE lonely little fly trap 

And today's pics: 

Tabletop

Raspberry 

Peanut

Look closely in the peanut and you'll see a flower 

Sun berry 

Tomatoes

Peppers

Another mostly tomato shot

Tabletop tomatoes 

Clover/catnip/lettuce

Tomatoes 

Lettuce and herbs 

Goji

Lettuce 

Herbs (yup really barren looking after trimming) 

Peppers lemongrass in the back 

Turvies indigo rose still looks to be doing better then the patio tomato 

Herbs and mints 

Look closely: the stevia is starting to flower 

The trimmings chilling out till I process them 

They need to be washed then trimmed as needed (leaves off the thyme that sort) then in the ninja to blend something like the mint there's enough I can likely just use the mint but something like the thyme or sage where I don't have much I'll add oil (olive) or water to get it going depending on how I plan on using oil in the door (so mostly cold some warm) of the freezer so far I've gotten like a year or so from expecting a bit more from it tho the water one lasted only like 3-4 months or so then by 6-7 ish it was badly freezer burnt so I'm tossing old ones had nothing then harder to tell apart so I tryied to work and am labeling everything with name and date (I keep a sharpie in the kitchen) 

Minus sunberries and currant tomatoes this was today's harvest 

Cinnamon/Thai basil

Purple basil 

Indigo rose tomato I'm gonna try fermenting them in the  zip locks (I literally use ziplocks for everything I buy the little ones as I use them the most then during the holidays just after we buy a bunch of bigger ones I merge boxes (so a 10 pack has 20 bags) cause they hold more move into our system and get on with life using those for the whole next year

Currant tomatoes fermenting 

And sunberries I doubt they need to be fermented but I figure "why not" lol