Yesterday I was determined to can soup. A friend has been canning soup and tells me about it all and, since we love soup in the winter, having canned homemade soup is perfect. I have dreams of sitting and cross stitching all day, opening a jar of soup and making a sandwich for dinner, and getting back to stitching. I had planned to make vegetable soup but it seems not a store in this county has ...
Sampler September Accomplishments
You would think I would learn but I always think I can get so much more done than I actually get done. It isn't just with cross stitching but with everything I do. I fully expected that I would finish A Sampler For All Seasons and I could have had I not stopped to work on Love is the Key. A Sampler For All Seasons: This is by The Scarlett House and is not available in shops at the ...
The Poblano Peppers
Wednesday night I picked the last of the poblano peppers - there were 66 of them. It was supposed to have been 44 last night, tonight and tomorrow night it will be about 45. While these temps won't kill peppers, they aren't going to do much growing now. After Sunday, our lows will be in the mid 50's again til the middle of October so I'm not pulling the pepper plants yet. There were a lot of small ...
Love is the Key – More Progress
I was going to press this after finishing the center flower so I could get a good picture but I've heard that pressing too much flattens the stitches so, since I was going to keep on stitching, I didn't press it. There's a good bit more to the pot but that flower is so beautiful in real life. Oops . . I see I didn't stitch the center of the bottom right flower. I'll get that done right ...
Tomato Soup & Toasted Cheese Sandwiches
One of my favorite meals . . maybe my very favorite meal for fall and winter is soup and sandwiches. Yesterday after I thought about making tomato soup, I had to stop and do it. Pioneer Woman's Tomato Soup is the best I've ever made. The salt rising bread makes the most wonderful toast. It also makes wonderful croutons! With two loaves of bread, I won't need to make bread again ...
Salt Rising Bread
A week or so I tried a starter for salt rising bread and it didn't work. The starter is stirred together on the evening before the bread is made. The next day, the dough has to be made, kneaded, let rest, kneaded more, shaped into loaves, let rise for 1-1/2 to 3 hours, and then baked so really, I needed to plan ahead and make the starter on an evening when I was going to be home all day. Finally, ...