yum! @Finnie :)
after i get the jars sealed and cooled completely i put the date/batch number on them and shake them a few times to get the air bubbles out and to settle the contents down into the liquid.
tomatoes are pretty easy considering how much they can produce and i love the flavor they...
these were given to us, neither of us like them enough to ever buy them. but they did happen to work for this dish. purely optional. maybe potato chips or pretzels would work for you better? :)
raining this morning, decided i wanted something for breakfast and i had some leftover tomato chunks in the fridge so i put some butter on some bread and warmed that up and then warmed up the tomato chunks and put those on the bread and we have some cheezits that we want to finish up so i put a...
i managed to get out and pick some dry beans until i was tired (and before the rains were due to arrive) and then found some tomatoes that weren't too badly cracked and ok for eating fresh. out of 9 plants i got 6 tomatoes but there are several hundred out there but all of them are deeply...
the last of the carrot cake (cream cheese frosting with just enough sugar that you could still taste the cream cheese, not too sweet at all) and for something different i put some peanuts on it plus a glass of milk. i thought of putting some chocolate sauce on it but didn't - i think that was a...
we have water ready at all times and the propane fireplace provides heat and a way to cook things, those things are the most important in the middle of winter.
funny coincidence, last night i dreamed i was eating a dried fig, i've never eaten a dried fig in my life... i have no idea what they are like, my brain decided it wanted to make that all up. note the only influence i was under last night was some chocolate...
finished last batch of tomatoes (unplanned by me but since they picked them last week they were there to be used and ready yesterday so i did 'em) of 7 quarts.
many had deep rotting splits so about 1/3 - 1/2 of what was there on the counter ended up in the reject bucket and got buried in the...