This is kind of
mish mash post. We've been really busy in the kitchen of late. Then I picked up Salmonella from something (still not sure what exactly... but something outside..) and that took me out of commission for some time. Let me tell you , Salmonella is NO fun. I wanted to die. And I think I had a pretty mild case actually with none of the usual symptoms except possible hurling my guts out.
ANYway, moving on, I am better, several pounds lighter and willing to look at food again. I've had enough energy to do things for a few days then I overdue it and have to crash for a few days. But it is so good to be able to DO something when I can that maybe I get carried away. Anyway, I'm thankful for whatever I get.
Isn't this weird? I thought the leaf coming out of one was weird but this is definitely weirder... is that a word?
I'm not sure what variety these are because they don't look like anything I planted. Except for the one on the right which is a Poona
Kheera.
Blueberry ice cream. It looked very strange. But it tasted very good. Now we have no more blueberries because I used them all up.
A Hillbilly. A fat one. I was very proud.
TWO Fat Hillbillies.
They are going to bury us soon ...
But we are fighting back by sucking the life out of them in the dehydrator .
Fermenting
apple juice .
This tastes better..
Well look what we have here.
I was just leaving....
Pardon me...
I love red. Well, when it is on tomatoes and stuff.... I can't wear it.
More squash.... Elly May chops it up for pickles. I think we canned 19 pints of stuff that day.... I didn't get a picture because it got put away before that happened. And by then I was too sick to care about anything.
Still not enough for ketchup though...
But we did make tomato soup.
Then I made Minnesota Chili Sauce which is some old tomato relish type recipe I got a long time ago. It is really good on meat . First you have to scald and peel tomatoes though. Not my favorite job. So Elly May did it. ;-)
And I chopped.
Pretty.....
On to the beans. We've been saving them up for days til we had enough to do to make it worthwhile to heat the kitchen up with the
canner.
I wish the purple ones staid purple after they got cooked... It would look so much nicer...
One batch down...
For the next batch we actually had flowering dill heads .. FINally....
And I put some of our yellow peppers in.. just because they looked cute.
Voila.... Phew! I feel very accomplished. And tired. There are still more tomatoes... More squash... but they can wait. Especially since we have a major heat wave hitting us now with some triple digits. The pool is very nice about now.
Now we are three weeks old.
What are you looking at?
Heading up the plank for a swim.
And you all thought my garden was so beautiful . Ha!! All the tomatoes were ripped out. They were at the end of the line and hand mites. The peppers are still there and producing a bit. I'm leaving them for cover at the moment.. the ducks like them. And the squash is still there at the end. We already harvested the big beautiful one. I'll have pictures of that eventually (nearly all 20lbs of it!) . A cover crop and salad greens will be going in here soon. But then where will they play???
We have the ability to dirty any water in 10 seconds. Quite the talent..
Some hide out in the peppers... stripping leaves here and there the little dears.
So big!
Cuddle time... but we really don't like that camera thing.... We'll stay down here until you put that contraption away!
Well, as long as you are going to keep poking that thing at us we will go over here..
What beauties!
