Out and about today, shopping. On the way to Bed,Bath and Beyond we remembered some needed shelving. Stopped at Home Depot, Sam’s Club and finally Lowe’s where we found it. Onward to BBB. Ordered a pressure canner/cooker, because that way you can use their 20% coupon on the sale.
All this to get to what I really wanted to post. We have a new Sonic drive-in under construction in Flint at Miller Rd and I-75. Finally I will get to sample these taste tempting treats they have been bombarding my TV with, knowing there were none located anywhere near me,. Now, if we could only get an IKEA.
We then continued our tour to Big Acre to get a pickle crock to make sauerkraut, as my present crock has a chipped interior. They were closed, try again Monday. In the mean time, does anyone have ideas on patching the chips?
Oh, yes, the pressure cooker is for a new venture, canning low acid foods, Meat, vegetables, soups. We’ll see.
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Ground hog
While writing the previous post, we were interrupted by a ground hog coming out from under the shed to sun for a while. Then it went to the barrel planters to inspect the tomato and melon plants. It went back under the shed when I tried to get a better picture. Any one know how to photograph through a door screen?
More canning
Just when you think all the canning is done—Edna drops in with a 1/2 bushel of pears off of their yard tree. We turned those into 20 pints of Cinnamon Pears. Took some jars over to Edna & Bob’s in return.
That got the fun going again, so we went to the farm stand and got a 1/2 bushel of Roma tomatoes. We made 11 pints of Tomato Chutney and 18 pints and a 12oz jar of Low Salt Tomatoes.See more pics at Momma’s corner
Tomato Soup
It’s amazing how a 1 inch incision on the inside of an elbow can drag you down. Between naps today I helped Momma put up 10 pints of tomato basil soup for the freezer.Tasted pretty good, too. Tomatoes thanks to Phylis (next door) and the stupid deer thar couldn’t figure how to get them all off the bushes.
I took some rhubarb sauce in with me to S.E. Michigan Surgical Hospital for Dr. Webb. He had said “Why don’t you guys make some rhubarb sauce, I haven’t had any in years”. Turns out his grand mother had an unorthodox recipe for it. She would stew the rhubarb and then throw in a large amount of candy orange slices. Has anyone heard of this method? I’m off hunting for it. Please help. That was quick. http://www.hungrybrowser.com/phaedrus/2000m.htm has 2 recipes just right (HAH) for us diabetics. We’ll try it soon.