Reaping the Harvest

This is the wonderful result of last night's canning session: 4 pints of pickles, 5 half pints of jalapeños, 4 pints of dilly beans and 4 pints of "dilly beans of death."

You're probably wondering how you go about making "dilly beans of death." Its very simple actually, you have too many cooks in the kitchen and then through miscommunication you end up with 1 tsp of Cayenne pepper per jar instead of 1/4 tsp per jar!!!!

*Note to self: do not give "dilly beans of death" as housewarming or "welcome to the neighborhood" gifts.

~ Norma
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Sunday Afternoon

My husband and I spent the afternoon processing some of our garden bounty. It was so much easier having help. We made more dilly beans, made our first batch of pickles and jalapeños.

My sweet husband even made cookies to keep our energy up. Canning is hot messy work!

Have you done any food preservation this year?

~ Norma

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Random Homesteading

These pictures are all from a few weeks ago before the garden exploded.