Yeah!

Good old spatchcock chicken, baked corn on the cob and fried okra...make you slap your pappy! I did lemon teriaki chicken this time...we had just picked the okra and I dredged it in seasoned corn meal and fried it. The corn was out of the freezer. The chicken was less than $4...so supper was cheap and plentiful. I have enough chicken left to make chicken salad or just re-heat. The okra bites the dust pretty quickly and I never seem to have any left to throw away. Same with the corn.

We had Little Man and Big Guy yesterday. It had turned off so nice we all went outside. Nice breeze and overcast...Little Man got a bucket and toted pea gravel all over the place - he looked like a miner when we went inside. Hubby gave him a cowboy hat and he walks around saying "Howdy Partner" and has a bandana tucked in his back pocket that he whips out and blows his nose on.

Thank Goodness for the babies...they keep us on our toes!

Have a great day!

Salsa Day

I made salsa yesterday and I tweaked the recipe a little. Since we will not have the on-going tomato crop, I used half drained diced canned tomatoes and half fresh tomatoes I had frozen. It was every bit as good as the original and still had the good summer tomato taste. So I still have enough for 3 more batches in the freezer.

This is the boiling water bath...I made all pints to can, we had a quart I didn't process - just put it in the fridge, and a small bowl we ate. Pints process for 15 minutes.

This is me in my torn up kitchen....we took the wall out and are slowly but surely finishing it. Those jars are hot, hot, hot!

It really turned out great...I got 8 pints in addition to the quart and bowl.

We also found some corn...of all places...WalMart. We bought a few ears to test...it was yellow and white, clean, and the raw kernels were sweet. (I snitched one). I put them on top of the fresh greenbeans and new potatoes and steamed it. It was very, very good. It was also only $.30 an ear, making a bushel only $18 as opposed to the $25 price at the produce store. We are trying not to be hogs, but we are going to go back and get more to freeze. I cut the stalk end and the top end off and freeze it in freezer bags. It holds very well like that and all we have to do is wash it and put it on the grill.

Sure would be nice if we had a little rain in the near future. Have a glorious day!

Well whadda ya know....

our first watermelon was delicious!

This little fellow was about the size of a soccer ball and was as sweet as it could be. This was the first...we did the thump test on them all until we decided on it. It was one of the solid green "twins" I pictured the other day.

Wow - I'll be glad when we can go grocery shopping again...Sunday the first will be the day. Hubby went by the produce market to check on corn....it's right at $25 a bushel for Silver King variety. We always buy that because it is so sweet and it does wonderfully on the grill. That comes out to around $.42 per ear (60 ears to a bushel), so what we will do is purchase the bushel and freeze it, then buy what we want to eat right now as we go. That way, when the season is over, I will still have my bushel.

We bought fresh corn at Aldi's at the first of this month and I baked it on the cob. It was really good...they had stripped the husk off on one side, so I washed it and got the remaining husk good and wet. I buttered the open side and seasoned it with cajun seasoning and a little garlic pepper. I put it on a cookie sheet and put it in the oven. It baked until the exposed kernels were lightly browned. It was delicious! We normally do it on the grill, but we didn't have it on.

I can buy my corn and other fresh produce with my food stamp card. Every little bit helps. Freezer space is getting short, so I'll probably have to go ahead and make my blackberry/raspberry jam soon. Hubby dug out the jars from his shed so I've got plenty to work with. That might just be a weekend project.

Have a berry good day!