I’ve cucumbers coming out of my ears…guess that is what happens when I put four plants into the ground!
This time, besides more Speedy Dill Pickles I found a couple of recipes that I wanted to try and sort of merged them into one, with a few additions of my own. And I came up [...]
Archive for August, 2009
Finding Different Canning Recipes for Cucumbers
Posted in canning, garden, tagged canning, cucumbers, mustard pickles, pickles, vegetable pickling on 30 August 2009 | 5 Comments »
August 2009 Garden Update ~ Sparks, Nevada
Posted in Nevada, canning, garden, tagged beets, botanical interests, canning, corn, cucumbers, gardening, heirloom tomatoes, herbs, Lemon Cucumbers, nevada garden, peppers, pickles, pickling, sweet italian, tomatillos, tomatoes on 27 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
Well…it’s almost the end of August and here is what is left of my garden. I don’t think it produced as well as last year, but I tried different plants than last.
Cucumbers…I’ve oodles of cucumbers. The best producing ones have been the Lemon and the Homemade Pickles. Both I bought [...]
Salsa & Relish Canning
Posted in Nevada, canning, garden, tagged canning, Lemon Cucumbers, Simply Canning, spacemaster cucumbers, Sweet Pickle Relish, Tasty Kitchen, Tomatlillo Salsa on 25 August 2009 | 6 Comments »
Spent part of last Saturday afternoon canning…again. Imagine that!
I had about 2 more pounds of Tomatillos that I picked from the garden and wanted to make a salsa verde this time with them. I can not for the life of me remember where I got the recipe, will [...]
For Today ~ 21 August 2009 ~ Simple Woman’s Daybook
Posted in Life in General, Nevada, tagged the simple woman's daybook on 21 August 2009 | 5 Comments »
FOR TODAY … 21 August 2009
Outside My Window… TIME LAPSE CAMERA of the buildings going up outside my window
I am thinking… It’s hot…we broke a 90 year old record yesterday! It was 101F and supposed to be 100F today. I WANT OCTOBER WEATHER!
I am thankful for… [...]
More Canning ~ Carrot Cake Jam
Posted in canning, tagged canning, carrot cake jam on 20 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
Made a new jam recipe last night ~ Carrot Cake Jam. Once I have my “testers” try it out, I’ll post the recipe.
It consists of carrots, pears, pineapple, pecans, ground cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, lemon juice and pectin.
It made up 8 half-pint and 1 pint jars. Me thinks [...]
Canning ~ Dill Pickles and Roasted Chile & Tomatillo Salsa
Posted in canning, garden, recipes, tagged canning, dill pickles, tomatillo pepper salsa recipe on 18 August 2009 | 3 Comments »
Did some canning over the past few days…
3 quarts and 2 pints of Dill Pickles last night ~ had some Spacemaster Cucs, Homemade Pickle Cucs, and Lemon Cucs that were ready to pick. I threw some yellow pickle peppers (??? I swear that is what the container said when I planted them) into [...]
Picture Friday ~ Virginia City, Nevada
Posted in Nevada, Photography, tagged Photography, virginia city nevada on 14 August 2009 | 4 Comments »
Pictures from morning walk on Friday, 7 August…
Furlough Day spent at Virginia City, Nevada
Posted in Nevada, Photography, tagged bats in the belfry, silver queen hotel, virginia city ghost tours, virginia city nevada on 13 August 2009 | 2 Comments »
Spent my second furlough day up at VC…we went up on Thursday afternoon and stayed the night at the Silver Queen Hotel on C Street.
My husband received a free night after getting his arm stuck in the wooden floor helping the bartender get her keys that fell down a hole. [...]
Busy Busy Busy…Did I say I was BUSY?! ACK!
Posted in Life in General, Nevada, Sewing, canning, tagged grocery bag, grocery tote, moon photograph, pickles, silver queen hotel, tote bag, virginia city nevada on 10 August 2009 | 5 Comments »
Have been super busy here at work. Haven’t had time to play on the computer…worked through lunches last week and since I have no online access at home it was hard to post anything.
Besides working from 6:30 am to 4:00 pm with no lunches last week here are few things I did [...]
