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He also brought home from them, radishes, onions, celery, oranges, 3lbs apples,4 lbs plums, cantaloupe and 6 tomatoes that are the size of a soft ball.
SO today I started ... I harvest garlic chives ,chives and kale from my gardens and put that in the dehydrator. In the other dehydrator is celery from M and what I had picked up. That will give me enough for the winter as I will buy some fresh for celery salad and stir fries.
I froze cauliflower and broccoli I had gotten. Not a lot but enough for a meal or two.
I started canning the last of the beets M sent over last week when her daughter L knocked on the door and had 1 plastic grocery bag of green beans with the news of her brother was bringing the second bag. OH well add that to the growing list.
Hubby called to tell me he had local honey to bring home and we were being gifted with a fresh chicken as one of the guys had butchered 40 plus chickens..
Tonight is beef roast with M's onions and my potatoes... tomorrow is now chicken.
I have cantaloupe ,watermelon and corn to process for the freezer.
I have more kale, garlic chives and chives to dehydrate.
I have plums, green beans, pears, (another gift)peaches (yes again) pickled watermelon rind, and pickled red onions to can.
Within a week or 2 I will have beets for pickled beets from A, green tomatoes(sliced and breaded for freezer and made in to relish) red tomatoes ( picadilly , salsa and sauce ) from N .I will dehydrate the tomato skins for powder to make paste out of when needed or add to taco meat etc
Making noodles is still on the list also.
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Wow! Sounds like your cup and pantry runneth over. I know it is exhausting processing so much, but what a blessing this winter.
ReplyDeleteHow do you freeze watermelon and cantaloupe? For smoothies maybe?
sometimes we just eat them , other times I smash them up to be like fruit slush. we won't do smoothies much at all.
DeleteWhat a fantastic problem to have!
ReplyDeleteI will not have to live through the fall garden produce life. I will miss it.
ReplyDeleteIf I could draw well AND could send you a picture I would make a map of Ohio and fill it with people in a giant, long line that filled the entire state and at the front of the line was you standing at your pantry handing out food that you had frozen/stored/dehydrated or purchased for when the rest of the state ran out of food. I think your husband would get a kick out of it.
ReplyDeleteactually Daddy used to say I fed the county and any stranger as once we had strangers come in off the street and have Tday dinner (which was in the back yard) with us. We thought they were friends of the kids, kids thought they were friends of Hubby's from work.
DeleteThat is a lot of food to process. I wish my dehydrator and canner were here! You are doing well getting fresh produce. I wish I had neighbor like yours. I, too, was wondering about the watermelon and cantaloupe in the freezer.
ReplyDeleteExplain how you prepare the green tomatoes for frying, please. Maybe it could be in a post.
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