asparagus a plenty

wall of pickled asparagus

tomato pepper frenzy

 my friends Father in law plants a huge garden, and this year they went on a two month vacation, so they invited us to raid it

batch of Mexican Salsa de Dedo (finger sauce)

peaches

from the farmers market

honey-spiced

getting pickled

pickling cukes from the Wednesday farmer's Market

sweet & spicy dills

salsa de dedo

Roasted the last of the tomatoes and peppers from the garden

Cooked down with some guarillo chilis into a warm and rich Mexican salsa de dedo - "finger sauce"

boozapple

Big batch of maple-bourbon apple butter

orange and green and orange

ratatouille

salsa verde

carrot salsa

rhubarb jamming

beautiful September harvest of rhubarb from the orchard

jam x8

it's dilly season

It's dilly bean time!

jamming Sunday

raspberry jam - had enough fruit to make a batch from my own bushes this year

this is sweet cherry jam I made from an old fashioned recipe that calls for ground cloves and cinnamon

wall of corn relish

14-pack

lady marmalade

grapefruit marmalade

first jam

First batch of Summer jam - strawberry-rhubarb

red and pink

pan of tomatoes for roasting

Rudy inspects the jars of roasted tomatoes

beets from the garden

 I can pickle that

nice can

spiced red cabbage

pickled hot peppers

hot, sweet and spicy

jalapeno jam

so spreadable

apricot-rhubarb jam

jammy

Strawberry jam

just when you thought it was safe to look at this blog again...

I made more pickles.  This is how they begin, soaking with onions in salt water

7 pints of bread & butter slices - my favorite

All you ever need is ONE pickling cucumber plant in your garden.  I planted two, which is why I have 10 million cukes.  

stop me now

more pickles