Yesterday's wanderings set me upwardly for a few days of canning. Today I guide maintain zucchini savor on the agenda. I already had everything I needed for that alongside 5 zucchinis inwards my vegetable crisper as well as to a greater extent than coming on our plants. Even so, Erik as well as Mae tried to foist off around of their zucchini when I went to the farmer's marketplace alongside them yesterday. I politely declined...at to the lowest degree I tried to live polite. But here's something...I was happy to guide maintain to a greater extent than than 8 cups of cherry tomatoes off their hands. We picked them fresh from their plants when nosotros got dorsum to their house. Actually, they did most of the picking.
So what am I going to practise alongside hence many cherry tomatoes (remembering for a 2nd that I guide maintain my ain rattling prolific plant)? Well, here's the thing. The folks on around of the canning forums guide maintain been enticing me alongside a intelligence of this book:
Believe me, I was sorely tempted to purchase it. And then, i of those canning ladies happened to postal service that the Kindle version was only $1.99 yesterday. Well, don't you lot know I dropped everything except my iPad as well as went right away to Amazon to purchase it. (And if you lot must know, it's nonetheless on sale, hence larn your ain Kindle version correct here.) So, of course, I perused the mass only earlier leaving to run across upwardly alongside Erik as well as Mae. There were lots of skillful recipes inwards the book, but this one, inwards particular, caught my eye.
It's made using 8 cups of cherry tomatoes, as well as hence when they offered me the cherry tomatoes...well, the phrase "Hot Damn!" comes to mind. Or for the to a greater extent than demure amidst you, "Heck Yeah!" Or how almost ""Does a behavior sh*t inwards the woods?" Or this one, which I absolutely can't resist: "Is a frog's donkey watertight?" Well that devolved quickly, didn't it?
So anyway...yes, I'm making it...tomorrow...because I demand around fresh ginger as well as around lemons. I sort of wondered what constituted "Moroccan spices" as well as hence I looked it up. You tin sack notice a recipe for a Moroccan Spice Blend correct here, as well as that's pretty much what ends upwardly inwards the preserves.
Here's what else I flora at the farmer's market: Tomatillos, as well as hence Tuesday, it'll live around salsa verde action.
For salsa verde, i needs plenty of jalapeno peppers.
And cilantro.
Yes, the cilantro does hold off suspiciously similar Italian parsely, but I rubbed the leaves betwixt my fingers as well as sniffed. It's definitely cilantro.
Also, I picked upwardly these 4 tomatoes. They're hence ripe that i genuinely carve upwardly opened upwardly earlier I could larn them home. No matter. I'll live using these to brand around gazpacho today. It'll live an chance to move around of the cucumbers from our most recent CSA share.
When it comes to CSA vegetables, we're e'er inwards a country of war to proceed from existence drowned inwards the deluge.
Roma tomatoes were non to live flora yesterday, although at that topographic point were around light-green ones that were rather expensive. I wanted them to brand tomato plant salsa, but it powerfulness live a niggling early on for Romas. I guide maintain quite a few on my ain plants, but I'm resisting picking them until they're a niggling larger. Besides, I in all likelihood guide maintain plenty to proceed me busy for now. I'll live able to larn Romas from our farmers before long enough.
Before I took off for the farmer's marketplace yesterday, I got started on the latest Heart & Home block.
When I got home, I finished sewing the Wine Country blocks together. Now, it only needs borders. If making savor as well as gazpacho doesn't guide maintain upwardly the whole day, I'll add together those today.
I promised you lot a motion-picture demo of my thought for the borders, as well as hither it is:
There won't live plenty of the edge cloth for the back, but I'll guide maintain plenty of the cork cloth as well as the light-green to slice a dorsum together. Also, at that topographic point volition live plenty ruddy for the binding. It's going to live pretty when it's all finished. Already, I guide maintain around ideas almost how to quilt it, but it volition demand to hold off its plow inwards line.
Smitty was pretty excited to reckon the blocks all sewn together.
By the terminate of the day, nosotros started talking almost pie fillings I'd similar to make. Pie is never far from our thoughts. And hence nosotros both got a powerful yen for around pie. Since I nonetheless had a crust left inwards the Pillsbury box as well as ii jars of Blue Cherry Pie Filling, I set together a niggling pie for ii for our dessert terminal night. This time, I set the pie crust scraps across the move yesteryear crazy quilt style. I'm having a niggling rival alongside myself to brand the ugliest pie crust. Winner gets to consume pie.
When it was cool plenty to eat, nosotros smothered it inwards H2O ice cream as well as topped it alongside around of the Chocolate Cherry Preserves I made recently. It was deadly, but nosotros both survived.
Which was skillful for Sadie because she needed a lap to prevarication on this morning. It occurs to me that she's ii blocks long...quilt blocks, that is.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few of you lot guide maintain asked me almost her tail. Nothing happened to it...she was born that way. She's business office Manx, as well as Manx cats guide maintain either no tail, or a brusk stubby tail similar hers. When nosotros get-go brought her home, she wouldn't allow us behavior upon her tail, but at nowadays she luxuriates inwards a skillful tail petting. She was a rattling anxious truthful cat when nosotros get-go brought her habitation too...clearly, her anxiety has waned, although I mean value she's a niggling high strung yesteryear nature.
She genuinely loves hanging out on Mike's lap inwards the morning. And she insists on a quilt. What truthful cat wouldn't?
So this morn I'll larn to piece of employment on the relish. It has to sit down inwards pickling common salt for an hour, as well as hence I'll in all likelihood move that fourth dimension to larn a niggling housework done. After that, cooking as well as canning, as well as hence dorsum to quilting. Cooking, canning, quilting. (Awesome alliteration.)
Oh yes, as well as don't forget, the Pets on Quilts demo starts August 10th.
We are non develop hither at the Three Cats Ranch, but we're getting there.