Yesterday Vince dug up two of the Jerusalem Artichokes (sun chokes). There's no telling how many area out there to be harvested. Maybe I'll keep track this year of how many we harvest. It's best to wait til after a hard frost or freeze before using these. We did have a 24 degree night a few weeks (maybe a month) ago but I had planned to wait til we get some cold weather to start harvesting ...
New to Me Sourdough Method
There are plenty (like everyone!) of folks who know more about sourdough bread making than I do but I've always wondered why you feed the starter, let it rise and then fall and then fall and that's when you use it. Normally, I will feed my starter the night before when I'm going to make bread the next day. I can see on the sides of the jar how far it rose and then, it fell. In my head, it ...
Green Tomato Curry Recipe (of sorts)
The green tomato curry recipe . . I watched a video of (That 1870's Homestead) and copied what she was doing, then I read a bunch of other recipes and tweaked the recipe a little. It isn't really a recipe - just my notes that may or may not make sense to any of you. This recipe makes A LOT! It's what I used for canning so I hope you can decipher my thoughts, cut the recipe down to a better size ...
Green Tomato Curry
Someone will probably remind me that I say this about everything I can but Green Tomato Curry is one of my favorite things I've canned. I will admit that my canning storage system here is not good - just not good at all. I have plenty of room but I don't have a good set up. In MO the first time, I had metal shelving units and was able to keep all my jars on those shelves. The basement had a large ...
Spilled The Oil!
Remember that I said yesterday I was going to stitch til midnight? Nope . . I made a huge mess and had to clean it up. I had onions and garlic in the freeze dryer and about 10:00 p.m., it was ready to come out. When I go in there to get food out of the freeze dryer, I take a plastic drinking glass (that we no longer use for a drinking glass) in there full of vacuum pump oil. I have an old style ...
Stitching Day
This is the photo taken last night . . This is how much stitching I got done today. Does that look like a day's worth of stitching? No! It looks like a day of talking, watching some clips from floss tubes, looking at charts we need; looking at charts we have and need to stitch, looking at linen, ordering a chart and some floss . . it was a day of fun and just what I needed. I missed our ...