69°f/19°C, clear. No rain.
I've been posting photos from our little getaway, but things have been hopping at home this week. Because the garden doesn't quit just because we're not there. For example, cherry and pear tomatoes:
I had so many i decided to dehydrated them. I tossed the halved little tomatoes with olive oil, salt and pepper, and put them in the dehydrator. This large cookie sheet full yielded a pint of dried tomatoes, similar to the sun-dried version. They are so tasty! A cross between bacon and raisins in flavor, if you can imagine that.
And now it have another large bowlful. I may just dry these too when they are fully ripe.
I had bought a couple frozen pizzas a few weeks ago, thinking we might eat them on days when I was too tired to cook. So this week one of those days came, and I tried Catalyst's trick of adding to the frozen stuff. This was a pepperoni pizza, and I added some of my canned jalapeños and banana peppers, some sliced tomatoes, and my canned chicken-of-the-woods mushrooms and grated cheese. Heaven!
I canned more pickled banana peppers,
ground up yellow squash for the freezer after making a tray full of squash rounds topped with grated parmesan and baked at 425° for about 20 minutes. What a lunch!
I have been giving my cucumbers to my friend Tanaea so she could make pickles, but this week she was sick, so I made bread-and-butter pickles.
And the grapes were ready when we got home. I thought blight had gotten them all so I was surprised to see them hanging ripe on the vines! I ended up making about 24 quarts of juice, enough for the coming year.
I so made spaghetti sauce from tomatoes that were ripe, and will make more tomorrow. August is definitely canning season.
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...your garden keeps you busy!
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