I Think I Can

Among other things , it's been a canning twenty-four hours today. Mike too I were upwards at our park early on hour. He needed to larn into town to straighten out an auto-pay resultant at the bank...it meant paying a personal visit...and I needed to larn to the grocery store. He dropped me off , took assist of his banking draw of piece of employment organization piece I did the grocery shopping , too therefore picked me up. We had it all done inwards less than an hour. Don't yous suppose nosotros were feeling pretty smug at our efficiency? Yes. Yes , nosotros were.

When nosotros got dorsum abode too had the groceries lay away , I laid out on 2 canning adventures. We had a pile of cucumbers inwards terminal week's CSA share. Ordinarily , I'd brand a chilled soup or cucumber salad alongside such a bounty. With us gone for the entire weekend , too unopen to other CSA portion to pick-up tomorrow , I decided to role this grouping to brand a batch of Calico Sweet Pickle Relish. I've been making this bask for decades , too it's pretty easy. I've linked to the recipe at that topographic point , but basically , yous finely chop the cucumbers , reddish bell pepper , light-green bell pepper , too unopen to onion...this tin give the axe hold out accomplished inwards merely a few minutes alongside a nutrient processor.

The whole mix is lay into a large container alongside unopen to pickling common salt too H2O , too and therefore it's allowed to sit down for 24 hours earlier draining too processing it. That volition hold out for tomorrow's effort.

While I was getting the cucumber mixture gear upwards , I had three pounds of reddish onions cooking down. These are to evidence a novel recipe published inwards our local paper for Caramelized Red Onion Jam. Sounds yummy , huh?

The recipe called for a loving cup of maple saccharide , which was novel to me. I flora unopen to on the King Arthur Flour website. There are cheaper ways to buy it if yous desire to buy larger quantities. Since this was my showtime fourth dimension always using it , I decided to buy merely the amount I needed. Once the onions are cooked downward , the maple saccharide , apple tree cider vinegar , lemon juice too common salt are added too it's cooked downward to a syrupy consistency.

Mine took nigh 20 to a greater extent than minutes , too and therefore it was ladled into jars too processed. As I'm writing this , it's cooling on the counter laissez passer on , too therefore I haven't tasted it yet. I did lick the spoon , withal , too that ane sense of savour held non bad hope for novel recipe success.

When I evidence a novel canning recipe , I role an one-time lid on ane of my jars too procedure it merely the same every bit the others. The lid normally seals , fifty-fifty though it's been used earlier , but that ane jounce is intended to hold out opened too tasted every bit apace every bit possible. It seems giddy to waste materials a novel lid when it's merely going conduct into the refrigerator. In whatever example , I'll convey to larn dorsum to yous tomorrow alongside the verdict on the recipe.

Miss Sadie has transitioned to indoor/outdoor truthful cat condition , too the alter inwards her personality has been astonishing. She's therefore much to a greater extent than relaxed too happy straightaway than she was earlier existence allowed the run of the place. I wouldn't convey expected such a alter , but at that topographic point yous convey it...one happy cat.

Mike goes out on the ATV too runs it all over the belongings too downward into the woods to chase away whatever lurking monsters. Then , they're allowed out together , too they remain together most of the time. It's warm inwards the Sun for a dark truthful cat , too Sadie has figured out to come upwards inwards too out of the kitty door on her own. Smitty is normally correct behind her.

The alone other thing I convey to tell yous is that I'm nearly finished alongside miserable Mildred. She's non a looker , but she seems happy enough. There was plenty of downward fourth dimension this by weekend , too therefore I got quite a fighting finished. It was a commitment stitching all those lazy daisy polka dots on her jumper there. I'm variety of hoping at that topographic point won't hold out therefore many polka dots on hereafter pieces. There convey been plenty on the ladies I've already finished.

With my canning too grocery shopping done , I silent convey merely a lilliputian housework to complete upwards too and therefore I should convey fourth dimension to create unopen to sewing. I'm woefully behind on the Mon Minis too on the Small Quilt Mystery , but I'm thinking I mightiness create unopen to quilting on the Wheel Estate quilt this afternoon. There's plenty to move on me busy no thing where I start.