Hey Granny, Your garden is looking terrific! Sorry to hear about the hermie.
I wanted to mention canna-butter to you as another alternative for all of the trim you are going to have. I really want to try and make hash in the near future. I'll start with the gumby hash. If I like that, I'll stick with it because I really don't want to lay out a bunch of cash for bubble bags.
However, I have made canna-butter several times already and I thought it might be a good use for some of your trim. You can use canna-butter (or budder, if you like) in any recipe that calls for butter. I make peanut butter cookies for my wife. It helps her with pain and insomnia. My recipe for the cookies is from an ancient Betty Crocker Cookbook (you know the one, pg 218). It calls for a stick of butter.
I usually make up a pound of budder at a time. I usually use my slow cooker but I have used a double boiler once also. I throw a pound of butter in the crockpot with 1-2 oz of trim, depending on quality. I also add 4-6 cups of water. The water is used to make sure the budder doesn't burn. I put this on low and forget about it for at least six hours. I read one budder recipe that said leave it for 23 hours. I did this the first time and decided I wasn't gaining anything. I usually let it go 8-10 hours. As long as you have a nice dark green oil slick on top, you're good. Strain this mess through a couple of layers of cheesecloth in to a bowl or other suitable vessel large enough to hold all of the strained liquid. Throw out the soggy mulch, you don't need it anymore. Put the bowl of strained liquid in the fridge undisturbed until the butter has all floated to the top and hardened back into a solid. Now cut a small opening in the budder, like you are opening a can of tomato juice, and drain the water off. Careful, you don't want the budder to come loose from the bowl and fall in the sink. Yes, that is experience talking. Remove the slab of budder from the bowl and pat dry with a paper towel. You can now divide it into 4 equal wedges and put them into small freezer bags and freeze until you are ready to bake. It will keep for several months in the freezer. You can also leave some thawed in your fridge and spread it on your toast.
You can also do this with vegetable oil but you will want to use a double boiler on low. The crockpot method wont work because the oil doesn't solidify in the fridge. With this method you will only need to strain off the mulch as the water and oil are never together.
No matter what you decide, you don't have to decide right away. You can dry the trim in a paper grocery sack for several days. make sure you stir it a few times a day until it is dry to avoid mold and aid in drying. Then, pop it into gallon freezer bags and freeze it until you have time to deal with it. You will want the trim frozen for all of the cold water extraction methods anyhow.
I hope all of that made sense. I'm a little baked at the moment.
I love your garden.
P.S. If you decide to cull the hermie, make hash or budder out of it too.
I wanted to mention canna-butter to you as another alternative for all of the trim you are going to have. I really want to try and make hash in the near future. I'll start with the gumby hash. If I like that, I'll stick with it because I really don't want to lay out a bunch of cash for bubble bags.
However, I have made canna-butter several times already and I thought it might be a good use for some of your trim. You can use canna-butter (or budder, if you like) in any recipe that calls for butter. I make peanut butter cookies for my wife. It helps her with pain and insomnia. My recipe for the cookies is from an ancient Betty Crocker Cookbook (you know the one, pg 218). It calls for a stick of butter.
I usually make up a pound of budder at a time. I usually use my slow cooker but I have used a double boiler once also. I throw a pound of butter in the crockpot with 1-2 oz of trim, depending on quality. I also add 4-6 cups of water. The water is used to make sure the budder doesn't burn. I put this on low and forget about it for at least six hours. I read one budder recipe that said leave it for 23 hours. I did this the first time and decided I wasn't gaining anything. I usually let it go 8-10 hours. As long as you have a nice dark green oil slick on top, you're good. Strain this mess through a couple of layers of cheesecloth in to a bowl or other suitable vessel large enough to hold all of the strained liquid. Throw out the soggy mulch, you don't need it anymore. Put the bowl of strained liquid in the fridge undisturbed until the butter has all floated to the top and hardened back into a solid. Now cut a small opening in the budder, like you are opening a can of tomato juice, and drain the water off. Careful, you don't want the budder to come loose from the bowl and fall in the sink. Yes, that is experience talking. Remove the slab of budder from the bowl and pat dry with a paper towel. You can now divide it into 4 equal wedges and put them into small freezer bags and freeze until you are ready to bake. It will keep for several months in the freezer. You can also leave some thawed in your fridge and spread it on your toast.
You can also do this with vegetable oil but you will want to use a double boiler on low. The crockpot method wont work because the oil doesn't solidify in the fridge. With this method you will only need to strain off the mulch as the water and oil are never together.
No matter what you decide, you don't have to decide right away. You can dry the trim in a paper grocery sack for several days. make sure you stir it a few times a day until it is dry to avoid mold and aid in drying. Then, pop it into gallon freezer bags and freeze it until you have time to deal with it. You will want the trim frozen for all of the cold water extraction methods anyhow.
I hope all of that made sense. I'm a little baked at the moment.
I love your garden.
P.S. If you decide to cull the hermie, make hash or budder out of it too.
LOL!!!
and granny hugs 
But I must end with a closeup of the trichs on her just so ya know they are doin' fine oh fine...
~~ my mind not about turkey atm 
