kitchen salsa

 

Do you salsa in your kitchen?

 

 

Canning season began for me yesterday with salsa.

17 pints to share...

17 more when the tomatoes are ripe enough.

 

 

I purchase all my fresh produce from our local hudderite colony.

These were some busy ladies when I got there.

I can't describe the wonderful smell coming out of their kitchen.

 

 

Today I am doing a double batch of our favorite relish.

Would you believe this recipe came from an uncle that made it?

Gotta love a man that cans.

 

 

The fresh vegetables need to sit for three hours

 before I add the brine and put in jars.

Enough time to wash and sterilize my jars and lids...

and post this blog.

I am a huge multi-tasker and can never figure out

why everyone can't do three things at once?

 

 

I peeled too many cucumbers

 so I will make a gallon of refrigerator pickles.

 

Nothing goes to waste in this kitchen!

 

~b

 

 

 

 



home grown

Vintage appeal...

 

 

 

 

I think I satisfied my need

 to embroider for a bit.

 

 

Maybe...

 

~b



Our weekend on the lake

 

 

"Life is better at the lake."

 

 

 

 

~b

 

 



getting back at it

After a week out of my sewing room

I was anxious to get back at it.

 

 

After all...

It's where I find my sanity!

egg basket block

 

I made the egg basket block

 for my Farm Girl Vintage quilt this morning.

 

 

And now I'm thinking I may make

an omelet for my lunch.

I have farm fresh eggs,

garden vegetables and fresh herbs.

Did you know that the secret

to fluffy eggs is cornstarch?

 

~b



birthday girl

"I'M ONE."

 

 

Happy Birthday Delainee!

 

 

Behind the birthday shoot:

The birthday girl just wasn't into her cake...yet.

 

 

Grandpa has made all the granddaughters

 Adirondack chairs for their birthdays.

 

 

Grandma does the painting.

 

~b

 

 

 

 



Gone Fishing

"Teach a man to fish..."

 

There is no shortage of fish quotes

 to go with my blog post today is there?

 

MEN AND FISH ARE

ALIKE. THEY BOTH

GET INTO TROUBLE

WHEN THEY OPEN

THEIR MOUTHS.

 

The guys took advantage of this lake

 and the boat at the dock to fish.

 

 

Many men go fishing all of

their lives without knowing that

it is not fish they are after.

-Henry David Thoureau

 

 

As you can see they did bring home some fish...

way to go guys!

 

 

Wait a minute...

isn't that your golfing hat Mr. b?

Maybe it's just his lucky hat.

 

 

"Give a man a fish and he

has food for a day;

 teach him how to fish

 and you can get rid of him

the entire weekend."

-Zenna Schaffer

 

~b

 

 

 

 

 

the lake

 

Oh my...
we were lucky enough to get to spend
a couple of fun days on the lake
this last weekend.

Tell you more about it later...
today we are recuperating.

 

~b