Shelby

Wow!!! You guys get the best vacations. I , too, am green, but I can't be too green since you take us with you!

Beautiful!!!

My bank account does not thank you, but I do ;). Just ordered from Amazon.

No....it will be a while before I'm all done with tomatoes--my counters are piled high 😀. I do a batch at least every other day. AND the barstool is back intact and my lid no longer has a seat in it lol.

That's the main thing stopping me. I have a lot on my plate right now. I know I can buy them already roasted and peeled but the fresh are sooooooo good.

I know, right! You should have seen my face when I went to put the lid back on my pot.

Pressure canned tomatoes yesterday. I laid the still warmish lid on top of one of my barstools. Apparently it was a perfect storm of the screw being loose and the lid being warm enough. Sucked the top of the stool right up. I can't get it out. Ronnie will have to do some surgery. I may be reduced to a total of 3 stools lol. Sigh. This would only happen to me.

@robirdstxI LOVE porcupine meatballs and yours look perfect. I haven't made them in a zillion years. I WANT. Ribs with scalloped potatoes, stewed okra and tomatoes and squash

I usually order those, too. I told my husband I was going to skip this year because I still have a couple packs in the freezer....but I am really wanting some fresh ones....

I still have pickles that I crocked and then canned to decided to just do some quickles.

Happy Anniversary @Ann_T! Lovely celebration dinner. Had to clean out the basement freezer. The most hated chore that I have. Especially when I let the ice build up to where it looks like and iceberg. Apart from a whole chicken sliding off the second shelf and pummeling my foot --which has turned it lovely shades of blue and purple--it mostly went well and I'm glad it's done. Found some fish that needed to be eaten. Hot Italian sausage with sauce and pasta Smoked turkey sandwiches FIVE fries, ya'll.

That's too bad about the peaches. GA used to have excellent ones. Maybe it was a bad year....

Emu egg separator.

It's for eating soup when you're on a diet.

And we have toeage!

Ugh. I'm sorry. Half of ours were killed in a storm a couple months ago...turns out that might not have been such a bad thing. We would have tomatoes in our bedroom lol.

Just plain 'ole Big Boys and Early Girls from Burpee.

You're eating really early or really late today

I agree! I could eat them just plain. I need to get some more. That was my last can.

Just googled. Yeah that sounds good!

And so it begins No matter how many times I do it, the first pressure can of the year always makes me nervous. No failures...knock on wood, hopefully that trend continues.

From Saveur-Canned sardine, tomato and caper sandwich I didn't feel like digging through the cabinet to find olives so I left them out. Didn't miss them.

Imperfect More figs!!!!

We've never had tomatoes like we have this year. They look like the perfect ones in the store--only they taste like the best KS tomatoes ever. It will probably never happen again lol. But it's nice to have tons to inhale. Tomatoes for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Roasted chicken thighs, okra, and @Jaymes'squash Big plate of tomatoes and pepperoni and ham pizza Deviled eggs and chicken fattoush salad

Man, I knew I liked your family, but now I know I'd fit right in!!!! My kinda guy!