Pioneer Woman at Heart

  The pickings are slim right now, but we'll take anything we are blessed with.  I made a salad and cleaned the beans.  The rain will give us more for a meal in a day or so.  The green beans are every so slowly coming on this season. I made a batch of homemade granola, and instead of my homemade vanilla extract, I used my homemade Christmas Spice Extract.  It smelled so good in the oven, and while cooling.   I picked some purslane, and am doing an experiment with it this time.  Update soon.   Chit Chat ©  August 2026 by Kristina at Pioneer Woman at Heart

One bonus from all this rain and recent heat wave, is that the weeds are galore.  Edible weeds - purslane. Although this is wonderful fresh, I'm stocking up as much as I can for winter soups and frittatas. I steam it for a few minutes, and followed the directions found at Mother Earth News online page (regarding harvesting purslane). I cooled it per their instructions as well, to not wash off the vitamins and minerals - filling a metal bowl with ice water, putting an empty one in the ice water, and cooling the steamed purslane.