~We went to Fruit way again this morning. Happy, happy!!!We got another 1/2 bushel of peaches. Hale variety this time. We'll just eat all of these. If they start to get over ripe I'll peel and freeze them. I'm just not a huge fan of canned peaches.
12 pints of blueberries. $1 per pint. Nice! I'll freeze these too.
10 zucchini
watermelon
cherries STILL 79 cents per pound. WOW!
2 eggplant
Anaheim and Santa Fe peppers
red onions
yams
red creamer potatoes
green beans
limes
pluots
and 2 half bushels of tomatoes.
~I've never had great luck canning salsa. It always gets too runny. I prefer thick chunky salsa. I got this possibly crazy idea that I could can the tomatoes and then when we want salsa I'll just chop them up and add fresh chopped onion, peppers, cilantro and garlic. If I'm right, that will result in a fresher flavored salsa, with the benefit of home grown tomato flavor, even in the dead of winter.
That's the plan anyway. I'll let you know how it goes.
~I had a major migraine when I woke up yesterday morning. It lasted all day long and into this morning when I finally surrendered and took my last Imitrex. Migraines, complete with nausea, are aparently good for the diet because I woke up this morning just ONE pound away from my goal weight. After the Imitrex knocked out the migraine my appetite came roaring back to life. So we ate lunch at a cute little diner near the fruit stands. Without apology I ate a Bacon Blue Cheese Burger. AND fries. LOL I hope my weigh in goes well tomorrow. :P
~Some Jaxon funny.
Facebook friends have already heard this one. Sorry for the repeat I just need to get it down here for the record. Because someday I really AM going to have the family stuff printed in book form.
So, I'm busy doing my thing in the kitchen last week and Jaxon is playing nearby. Suddenly I hear a big thud followed by a cry of pain. I think that Jaxon has shut his fingers in the drawers. Because heaven knows that happens fairly often.
But no, I turn to tend to him just in time to see him pull the kitchen towel off of his head and face.
He had been running around like a crazy person with the towel over his face and ran right into the sharp pointed corner of the counter top.
There was a little puncture wound on his forehead. I grab a towel and reach for the faucet to get it wet while trying to keep him from touching the wound but his hand slips free and he touches his forehead. Then, upon seeing the blood on his hand, he declares, "I died."
Thinking that he had died didn't seem to cause him any additional distress though.
Is that good or bad? I'm thinking a healthy fear of death might be a good thing for a little kid to have. LOL
He got over it pretty quickly and posed for a picture.
6 comments:
Trish-- Canned tomatoes work great for fresh salsa, that's what I use all the time for my homemade salsa. I'll add garlic/onion/peppers/cilantro/spices/etc and just pulse it in the blender or food processor with tomatoes that I have canned. Yummy! :)
Poor Jaxon. It looks like he is proud of that hole in his head. I can't believe you are finding such good prices on your fruits and veggies. Jim can't believe the price of those cherries. They are on sale here everyonce in a while for 2.99 lb. I don't care for fresh cherries but I like them out of a can and into a pie. lol Your doing great on your weight I am doing better since I went back to 2nd shift. I lost the 4 lbs I gained over summer and 3 more on top of that.
I'm watching Brians two little ones this weekend they went to the nascar race in Virginia. Its really a challenge with the little one he is hard to keep up with. He is so cute but man he is rotten. well time for bed I'm sure he will be up early.
That looks like a LOT of work... FUN work, but work... if you decide to give me half of everything... (after the work is done, of course) I'm cool with that.
I'll be very very grateful, and think about how sweet and generous it was EVERY TIME I open a jar of tomatoes or take a bag of blueberries out of my freezer, cuz that's how I roll.
If you think I'm kidding, you are wrong. REALLY REALLY GRATEFUL.
;)
Becki~ Thanks! Good to know that having salsa that tasted like summer in the dead of winter is not such a far out idea after all.
Alice~ If you don't like fresh cherries, you should try freezing some. Makes them like CANDY! YUM! Of course we never have any left to freeze. LOL
Great job on getting back on the WW track now that summer is over. You're doing great! And so fast!
We're doing Grandparent daycare with Maveryk today. He's still easy though because he can't get around on his own.LOL
Christy~ I believe you. ;)
Hey where is this "fruit way" I have never heard of it.
twomoms~ From Salt Lake, go about 40 miles North on I-15. Past Ogden, Plain City, Farr West.Take the exit for Highway 89. The first fruit stand is just a couple of miles once you're on 89. There are about a dozen more as you make your way toward Brigham City. It's about a 10 mile stretch of the highway scattered with fruit stands.
It's like Christmas!! Or maybe that's just me. LOL
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