A YEAR OF PIES!
HOMEMADE LIVING: HOME DAIRY
HOMEMADE LIVING: KEEPING BEES
HOMEMADE LIVING: CANNING & PRESERVING
HOMEMADE LIVING: KEEPING CHICKENS
In My Kitchen
Allergy attack (head cold?) or not, the tomatoes in our garden aren’t sympathetic to my current medical condition. They’re ripening on the vine like it’s the middle of August (and it is!) and I needed to can them TODAY, so, that’s just what I did.
Huxley, for his part, was a total trooper about the whole thing. He went down around 2 p.m. for a two-hour (!!!) nap, allowing me to blanch, chop, and simmer the glorious veggi/fruits (veg-uits? fru-gies?) of summer. Thanks, little buddy.
Did I bribe him with a ready-and-waiting bowl of chocolate and vanilla ice cream when he awoke, so that I could continue my work, jarring and processing multiple pints of diced tomatoes? I happily, heartily plead guilty. I think, for his part, he was completely on board with my plan.
I love your salt cellar!
Huxley doesn’t even seem to mind at all that he was bribed.
I’ve got to ask what you think of the yellow pear tomatoes. We’ve tried them several times and a couple of varieties, but they just never seem that tasty to me. Visually striking and lovely to add to a dish? Absolutely, but for some reason I’ve never been able to grow a tasty one, can you (or anyone else) recommend one in particular that they really like?
i do like then, john. they’re not as sweet as the red ones, and they seem to go bad more quickly, but, that said, i’ve enjoyed eating (and growing) them so far. i don’t actually have a specific variety i could recommend, unfortunately! i planted so many tomatoes this year that labeling each type somehow got away from me!
Has anyone ever told you that Huxley looks just like Sal in Blueberries for Sal? Please tell me you’ve read it! Love you blog, recently bought your jamming book
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no one has told me that, lindsey but you know, you’re right! thanks for pointing it out!!!