Gorgeous day here. Our maple trees along the driveway have just the slightest ‘blush’ of color and I noticed the other day that the “smell” of fall was in the air on occasionally
The garden is slowly going - one tomato plant is about dead. I did a major picking earlier this week - anything with a hint of color came off the vine. In 3 days, those green tomatoes were almost ripe & the ripe ones were almost too ripe. Yesterday, I spent 4.5 hours peeling tomatoes & cutting up for salsa (I take out the seeds). I have enough tomatoes for 2 batches (7 qts per batch) & that canning project is happening this morning.
My basil took a hit on a cool morning (40’s) - several plants have dead leaves so I need to make another pesto batch before we get another cool spell. Half the plants are fine & half have some blackened leaves.
The jalapenos are finally coming in - good thing because I have requests for Jalapeno Pepper Jelly. This past weekend, I met a couple at a Crab Feast & somehow we got to talking hot food - I mentioned the JPJ & he begged me for some. He’s in the Navy, being transferred soon, so I need to get on the ball. I’m including a few other homemade items in his JPJ package with a note “thank you for your service”. They were a totally charming couple & great fun to pick crabs with. BTW, if I had to pick crabs to survive or make a living, I’d be dead or broke.
Once the canning is done (salsa today, JPJ tomorrow), I still have some fields to mow - got most of them earlier this week. It’s great mowing weather and it’s something that I find relaxing so I’m looking forward to it. After that, I’m going to break down the straw bale garden & work the compost in, then see what I can do about some fall crops. Tried to get a head start last month with some seeds in a little ‘greenhouse’ thing I bought & it didn’t go well.
Right now, I’ve got too many things to do and not enough hours in the day - just feeling blessed to have the good health & physical ability to be able to tackle it all & eventually, it will get done. :-)
Good to hear from you. I like that story, and the little note to thank him for his service. I’m not getting much done today - extreme sciatica.
Sitting in this chair, with my leg crossed Indian style has brought the pain level down to a bearable level. Had to give up and take aspirin and Tylenol plus combo last night-or I should say morning. Didn’t go to sleep till 8 am.
I found a bread recipe to try - overnight no knead. So I had mixed it up last night, I substituted 2 handfuls of my homegrown wheat in the recipe. When I got up, I dumped it into a pan, and brushed some olive oil on top, and let it rise for an hr. Baked @ 425 for 30 min.
This was a great tasting bread, Hubby liked it too. This may be the recipe that I’ve been looking for. It was good enough that I already used 2 of my 4 carb servings for the day. I want to get as much whole grain as I can in the recipe, so I’ll put just a bit more in the next batch.
I estimate that this recipe was 1/8 whole wheat. Next year, if my winter wheat succeeds, I’ll have some white wheat to try.