I'm glad I have more than one apron. I had flour all over this one from tortilla making, so I had to swap it for a clean one. I have a habit of wiping my hands on my aprons sides versus grabbing a towel.
Hubby and I moved some of the barn siding onto horses to sell.
The ground is still very wet, so we cannot knock down the entire structure just yet.
We got our very first ripe tomato - heirloom pear cherry tomato. These will go nicely in salads, hot or cold. It won't be a lot, but it will be something. These are not planted in the big vegetable garden.
I purchased organic lemons, dried the zest in my dehydrator, crushed peppercorns, and added sea salt. I like to use this for squash/red pepper grilled in foil packets (or roasted in the oven). I used a recipe I found online. We thought this seasoning would be wonderful on fish too. Why make it homemade? Well, for starters, the lemon is fresh and it smell and tastes wonderful. Second, you don't have all the fillers they put in them when you buy it at the store (like sugar). Why even put sugar in a pepper seasoning?
I've successfully dried comfrey, calendula, and soon mullein. My peppermint is doing absolutely wonderful, so that is on today's to-do list. My new organic spearmint seeds are producing, and should be ready to harvest for winter soon. I'm also drying more catnip. I read that it is as effective as Deet.
My lemongrass looks great, and already needs another trim for drying again. The stalks are not large enough for making lemongrass oil just yet.
The recently tossed zinnia seeds have all sprouted. I'm already drying some from previous blooms, for next year's flower gardens.
As for my every day, personal, zippy, mojo, the kids feel that the answer to finding it again, is to buy myself a puppy. Hmm. I'm pretty sure that's not the answer. Funny kids that they are.
I have however, have been getting funky with herbs, tinctures, and other herbal concoctions. Most have to wait about 6 weeks before I can use them. I'll be sure to post.
The sun is rising behind a layer of fog this morning and is quite beautiful. Now that I have talked your ear off, I'm heading to the porch for gal time with God. Have a wonderful Sunday.
Comments
You are so right ... fillers and sugar in spice mixes just doesn't make sense!
The pictures of your herbs look great! . . . so professional!
Have a blessed week!
Save the seeds from some of those heirloom tomatoes and other vegies that you grow. You can rarely grow more with the seeds gotten from produce bought at the store because they don't seem to come up, we're thinking maybe because they've been irradiated and rendered sterile, but you can easily do it with things you've grown in your own garden, free seeds - to save for planting next year.
We generally scrape out the seeds from a couple of the tomatoes, etc., rinse them carefully and lay them out singly on a paper towel on a paper plate and place them on a high shelf in the kitchen to dry (well away from the kitties). Then after a few days of thorough drying, we put them in small appropriately labeled jar (often a clean empty McCormick's spice jar we've used all the spices from which are great for saving seeds in).
God bless.
RB
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