Posted on 01/27/2006 1:47:08 AM PST by Argh
Good - things are going well - daughter got a good roommate for the semester and I'm "passing" 9th grade algegra. lol
Yikes..........algebra? Good news on the roommate, though.
we did a run to WalMart this afternoon. I think hubby was impressed with me. I knw ahead of time exactly what I needed in there.......I was going to the garden center and to the groceries.......and that is all I did.
And I spent more than $50 less than he expected I would. and I did that even though I spent $15 on peat pots which I had not planned on getting there - but they were even a better deal than the deal I had found in one of my catalogs.
I have to pick up 4 cases of jelly jars tomorrow and with the supplies I bought in WalMart today, by the end of next week I'll have a nice stock pile of 10 cases of jellies for a start on the street fair/town festival/flea market seaon. And by starting seeds this week, I'll also have a nice amount of herb plants to go along with them.
Who says you can't turn a city girl into a country girl :)
please tell me you aren't one that is bemoaning not having had one of them when you were in school!
Oh man that is a lot of work for that city girl! lol....I wish you the best and would happily buy some jam/jelly if you were close by!
I'm really enjoying doing it. It will be even more fun when it is my produce going into those jars.......although I will still have to buy the sugar, vinegar, pectin and jars..........there are only so many things this city girl can do :)
I won't be able to add berries to the repetoire this year, but I am ordering a 100 strawberry plants and 6 raspberry bushes on Tuesday.
I'm really, really, really excited about doing this.
I agree - the bars are good - I like the peanut butter ones.
Reminder: Ask Uncle Ben about crossed hockey sticks, sermons on the Mount, and his next parish Mass.
Though he, being a retired Army chaplain from South Texas farming communities who has never never played goalie in his life, might ask me WHY I'm asking him about crossed hockey sticks, sermons on the Mount, and his next parish Mass.
Nah - Go ahead and eat the steak yourself.
He may think he's hungry now, but he won't really be hungry until tommorrow.
Well you have all that land for a big garden - and more energy than I have!
Dievest?
A holy, but bullet-proof, Kevlar jacket?
Land, yes...........energy, I'm not so sure.
However, I am much more comfortable with the gardening and canning than I would be with 9th grade alegebra. I'm having enough problems explaining 2nd grade logic problems to 2nd graders.
However, daughter called from college to discuss her calculus quiz..... i said "speak English" ;^)
OMG - I would have said the exact same thing.
Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are never a problem for me......beyond that is beyond me.
Math is a calling for some, but I was put on this earth for other pursuits. ;^)
You and me both!!!!!
The funny thing is, though..........give me a recipe and ask me to cut it down or increase it, and I can do it as if it were second nature.
Pectin and sugar are not cheap, so the last thing on earth I want to do is waste either experimenting with new recipes. But experiment I do............I've just figured out how to cut them down to manageable size where I don't feel so bad if something doesn't work and I decide to just throw it away.
I'm not a big of red wine for drinking, but I do like to cook with it, especially with venison, so I usually buy the 4liter jug Carlo Rossi burgandy or chianti. Well I needed red wine a couple of weeks ago and hubby picked up a bottle for me, but it wasn't my normal screw cap jug stuff - it was just as cheap, and very good, but had a cork in it.
So here I've got this half bottle of red wine sitting on the kitchen counter, just staring at me, for days. It just so happens I have a recipe for wine jelly that I have never tried...........but I don't have enough wine for the recipe. Those kinds of math skills, I sure do have, because the jelly worked perfectly even though I more than halved the recipe.........in my head.
BTW - if you don't like the wine, you won't like the jelly.
I do love pepper jelly - it is great over cream cheese
I love pepper jelly with cream cheese.
Try melting some down in the microwave and using it as a baste for roast chicken........or even chicken on the grill.
No need to search for the wine jelly recipe.........
6 cups sugar
4 cups red wine
6 ounces liquid pectin]
Mix wine and sugar over medium heat until sugar is dissolved..........try not to let it boil too hard.
When sugar is dissolved take off heat, stir in pectin.
Pour into hot sterilized jars.
Believe it or not, hubby ate almost all of everything, including the steak last night. He was indeed really famished for breakfast this morning, though.
The rain that (thank God) we did not get yesterday has been coming down off and on since 3 this morning, but it is a nice, soaking rain rather than a cloudburst. We were on automatic pilot and got up at the regular time this morning-hubby was really hungry, so I fixed him some oatmeal, and he has taken a supermotrin and gone back to bed. I found an almost pristine copy of Rosemary Sutcliff's "The Sword at Sunset" at the 1/2 price bookstore in Kerrville last week, and I'm going to sit here by the window, watch the rain and reacquaint myself with the story (haven't read it in over 20 years).
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