It is tough getting the day started this week.  The cooler weather, just screams "sit, sip and enjoy the morning while you can" ...

  It's nearing the end of our garden season.  The rain is arriving here, so I will wait for the garden to dry up before pulling some mor...

  One of my extreme clean projects (craft binders) landed on the kitchen table, and it made me realize, I need the table for tomatoes.  Yike...

  First time to try using a seedling heat mat to start the hottest of the hot peppers.  I typically do not have any problems starting my jal...

  It's been crazy busy around here.  I cooked a meal and delivered it to a family friend who had foot surgery, and we had to drive 3 hou...

Froze the last of the green bell peppers. Jalapenos and green bell pepper went into this breakfast, topped with freshly cut chives. Froze th...

I started some cilantro and parsley seeds indoors, and they were doing great.  However, I had two spray bottles in the kitchen, and one is n...

  I have a lot on the to-do list this week.  Gosh.  I totally wish it was canning tomato sauce, but I don't think that's gonna happe...

In lieu of the kitchen floor project discovery, I sliced and diced yesterday to get some tomatoes off the tables.   Ketchup was canned.  I l...

It took me a while to figure out how to get this saved to my computer from social media, but I got it done.  It was too long to be able to u...

Habanero peppers made their way to the freezer.  They will stay there until I have a wee bit more free time to can hot sauce or jam w...

Although canning is not over for me, the kitchen deep clean project continues.   Everything is being removed from counter tops, disinf...

I finally found some habaner o peppers, so another batch of hot sauce was canned.  I used my own serran o and jalapeno pep pers for thi...

Hubby loves hot sauce and I use it in several recipes (and our steak marinade) .  I decided it was time to try canning it.  I planted serran...

I'm reclaiming my vegetable garden . . . . . . cleaning  it up