Shelby

Doing my yearly bump of this inspiring thread

Kay, your tomatoes look SO good! My pickage has looked like this for about a week and half now. Green beans, squash, zucchini, a couple cucumbers (not enough to start a batch pickling though.....I'm down to 3 cuke plants so I'm hoping I get enough) a few cherry tomatoes, and an onion or two. Lettuce is starting to bolt. I'm going to miss having it. But, hopefully the tomatoes will make up for it I have one plant that looks wilty and the leaves have rust spots. I'm hoping what ever it is doesn't spread to the others. \\ Anyone ever grown artichokes? My plants look like this now....they don't seem to be growing very fast.....is this normal? Annnnd, I went over to our pumpkin area the other day and discovered there are also zucchini and watermelon interspersed amongst the pumpkins. And also these: They are not yellow squash. Maybe a pumpkin and a zucchini crossed?

Duck egg that I might have kind of hidden in the fridge so that I could have it.......

Oh man. I have a $50 credit from WS to use however I want..... I don't need another IP...I don't need another IP....

@cyalexa's hotdog buns. I always get a craving for hotdogs after I watch the Nathan's Hotdog eating contest on the 4th of July.

I love summer for many reasons but close to the top of the list is just having little tidbits like this from the garden to munch on before dinner ribs last night

Ok, I feel better. You'll be back in the mix soon

Oh I would happily eat those...they look good to me! Glad you're home!

I am worried, too. It seems like he's been in there a long time!

Sigh. Well, she will get to come home to a great meal at least. People must be partying a bit too hard up there today lol.

Squash casserole and fried fish last night

Happy Canada Day!!!!

Lovely meal! Why no oil?

*settling in* It's not too far away from cocktail hour. What will it be today? I remember you left some interesting things up there so you could dive right into a drink without having to unpack too much right?

Now that's just downright mean to those of us without

I know, I know. My pork chop looks anemic. I SV'd it and I didn't feel like searing it. It was very tender so I don't care what it looked like lol.

Our sandhill plum bushes are LOADED this year. I have never seen them like this before. I still have jelly from like 2 years ago but dang, I hate to not use these for something......

Oh Elaina, I know how hard it is some years. Have you tried to dust with Sevin for the flea beetles?

Holy crap, how cool!!! Nose molds!!!! LOVE the couches that you sit on. Was it comfortable to eat on them? Everything looks so good. Were those mulberries in the spoon next to the cheese? Love the pea presentation and also love the wooden spreader for the butter on the bread.

Spaghetti night

I went back and found my pictures, too . I remember that I didn't measure precisely but it turned out soooo gooooooood. Before baking After You can't tell from the picture, but this was a HUGE pot.

I used it for pizza sauce the other day. Excellent.

Venison taco salads

Ronnie went down to the river and caught us a nice catfish yesterday. So we had that, fries and a garden salad.

Yeah, I think the pressure canner and I have made a little progress on our relationship lol. I've canned tomatoes in a water bath for like 20 years now. I think early on I canned spaghetti sauce but I decided that I'd rather just can the tomatoes and then make the sauce later out of those. OR, I make the sauce and freeze it. No problem with canning it, though. Now, if you put a lot of stuff in it like mushrooms etc. I'd pressure can it, but if it's mostly tomatoes you'd be fine in a water bath IMO.