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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Oh, Wow!!!! And Convenience Food Haney Style ... Just Sayin...

So, as I intimated, it has been busy.  Oh brother!!! Or should I say uncle???  Well, whilst the garden was busting out all over today, I was blessed with my dearest of Lekya's.  Ok now, nobody has ever had a sweeter or more lovely harvester than she...c'mon, you know it's true.  She picked a "gred" pepper (meaning partly green, and partly red).  Well, that's how the day went.  It's already after 10, and the kitchen lights are on bright and clear...

So anyway...today/tonight we processed a strainer full plus the babka bowl full of ripe tomatoes.  We did 7 quarts of cajun spiced/recipe ready tomatoes:  and they all sealed.  Major score!!!  You plant it, you grow it, good God willing you harvest something, and then you preserve it, because there is too much to eat right now, and it would be a real crime to let it go to waste...

And then there is the mother-lode of all convenience foods...in two little words...BLACK BEANS!!!  I mean, you plant 'em, they grow, and then you pick 'em when they are all dried already and shell 'em and stick 'em in a ziploc bag, and you've got food for the winter, protein, fiber, taste, you name it, and you don't have to do one more blessed thing in order to preserve it.  If we could, we would plant an entire field of these little lovelies!!!!

1 comment:

gatorbait said...

Any particular way you dry out the beans?