Got the red beans with sausage and ground beef canned. 17 quarts! See the second one back on the second row from the left? When I took the picture, it had not sealed and I was halfway hoping it wouldn't and we would have it for dinner tomorrow but it sealed. I had planned to can this in 1-1/2 pint jars instead of quart jars because I used 5 pounds of beans and wasn't sure I could get ...
Monday’s Canning Projects
The plan was to get the ham broth canned so I started on that before breakfast. It was an easy project because the broth had been in the roaster all night. All I had to do was scoop it up, pour it into the jars, straining it as I poured it. I really need to move those pears from the back of that table, don't I? They've been photo bombing my canning photos for weeks! I have to bring down ...
Canning Beans and Pork
Note: That's different from Pork & Beans! :) Yesterday morning we woke up to the power being off. I figured it was going to be a fairly short outage but once Vince brought in a generator and I was able to get internet, I read that a squirrel had caused a fire that burned a transformer and it might be up to 24 hours before power was restored. My first thought . . I wish I had canned more of ...
Beauty Berry Jelly
The American Beauty berry is one of my favorite plants. When I was a child, they grew wild in the woods behind our house and we pick the berries and make all kinds of make believe concoctions with them - nothing that we ever really consumed. Many years later when we lived in Nevada, MO, there were beauty berries growing in the woods next to our house but I never had time to harvest any and make ...
Farmhouse Christmas
I'm so glad I started over with Farmhouse Christmas. I would never have gotten it done with the first one I started. When I started it (February 1, 2021), I was such a beginner! It had been close to 40 years since I had cross stitched and then it was on 14 count Aida. It was only in December, 2020 that I decided to start stitching again after seeing a friend's work online. Counting those ...
October Stitching Plans
I'm making some changes from the September plan and from what I said I was going to do in October. Me? Change my plans? Who would have guessed? :) I got tired of working on the same project for 15 days. At least the last half of September I was wanting to work on smalls - things I can start and finish fairly soon. I love the larger, more stitch heavy pieces but I need to balance those with ...