I had planned a nice two week vacation the end of August. I figured with the *on call* substitute position at the school I would need to be close to home once September rolled around. School starts August 10th. Well, no vacation for me...I got the call to come to work on the first day of school until the first of September. It seems one of the new hires won't be able to start for several weeks. How does that work? I have never applied for a job and then when I got told the employer I can't work. Oh well, not my problem. I'm looking forward to learning some new things and making some money to go towards weather-proofing the plumbing at the cabin and off-grid solar here at the ranch.
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| The Cabin: Needs Winterized Plumbing |
Yesterday I finally canned Monday's Farmers Market beets. I canned them in a sweet pickle syrup with cinnamon and cloves...my favorite. For the first time ever I had the bottom break out of a jar...maybe this is the second time. What a mess...I had beets and glass everywhere. Oh well, I went a head and cleaned out the canner and processed the jars that were fine. While the beets were processing I threw together a couple meat loaves and some German soft pretzels. The kitchen smelled wonderful. The pretzels are a new thing. They're really delicious and if I can get the twisting part down so they look more *professional*, we're going to start selling them at the Farmers Market.
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| Big Beets From Farmers Market |
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| Chunked in Pints and 1/2 Pints |
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| Bottom Blow-Out |
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| German Soft Pretzels |
The garden is keeping us in tomatoes, cucumbers, crook neck squash, zucchini, basil, sage, oregano, thyme, French tarragon, potatoes, shallots and peppers. We had a friend bring some cod he caught over at the coast, so I'm deep frying cod and zucchini fritters and onion rings, fried French fingerling potatoes, sliced tomatoes, with basil, cucumbers, olive oil and balsamic (crushed garlic) and homemade mozzarella...ice cream and homemade butterscotch topping. Can't get much better than that! Sorry about all the fried stuff...normally I don't fix us much fried food...but when I do, I fry everything!
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| Weekend and Monday Garden Booty: Watermelon, Cukes, Crooks, Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggs |
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| Wednesday Harvest and Eggs |
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| Friday Harvest |
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| Cod |
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| Zucchini |
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| Zucchini Fritters |
Today I went to gather eggs and found one of my 10 pullets had laid her first egg! My little girls' are growing up!
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| The Ladies Feasting on Kettle Corn...A Once A Week Snack |
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| One of My Ten Pullets is Laying! |
4 comments:
Nice harvests...and congrats on the newest layer!
Looks great. I was canning up some salsa in the "wee" hours of the morning on Wed. I was just filling and capping the last jar when I realized I'd completely forgotten to add the vinegar the recipe called for. Dumped everything back in the pot, cleaned the jars and started over.
Lynda, how on earth do you manage it all? You make me tired just reading about it!
I've only had one jar blowout, and that was a quart jar of dill pickles, when I only had enough cucumbers left for three quarts. Never for anything I have in abundance, of course. I'm with you on the frying. When I get out the deep fryer, nothing is safe! It's a good thing I don't do it often, but I think I hear some french fried onion rings calling my name right now ;-)
You continue to inspire me!
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