Sisyphus Acres

Edamame...mmmmm....

Well got the soybeans shucked off the plants yesterday...6 gallons!!  My mom brought 3 to her knitting group last night as we'd never eat them all.

Hannah (dd) and I cooked some up last night, and WOW!  Makes me wish we hadn't sent any off to the group, they were so yummy!  Not like what you find at the store at all, they were sweet and buttery tasting, all we did was boil and salt 'em, what a great and nutritious snack.

I actually had shelled what we ate before cooking last night, not fun, they are hard to break into ~ so from now on, we'll do the more traditional cook and squeeze 'em out.

We had to pull in the rest of the tomatoes cuz of the hard freezes this week (it's been 32 or below 4 nights so far).  There are a wheelbarrow full for me to sort through, last year I had them ripening through Halloween.

Pulled in 11 small sugar/snack jack pumpkins, 4 spaghetti squash, 5 more zucchini, 4 "fooled you" jalapenos...4 ears of corn...and two onions for...

...Stewed tomatoes!!!  I used the pressure canner for the first time and made 8 pints of stewed tomatoes, seemed to work pretty good for the first time through...I was a bit nervous, but it all worked out.

Oh, we shelled almost all of the hard beans, got about 5 pounds of kidney beans and about 3 pounds of cranberry beans (still have some left to shell, they are still drying out, so we'll have about another 1/2-full pound of the cranberry beans).

The kidney beans are my next canning experiment with the pressure canner.

Still have to make the jelly ~ hopefully tonight, should be quick.  And I need to clean my bedroom, fold laundry, wash some more laundry, make zucchini bread, ummm...hm...there's more, more than I can do.  I would need to take 2-3 days off to completely catch up, and it's crossed my mind!

Started crocheting a sweater for myself, got most of the Christmas shrugs done...I have one in process that I need to finish, but it will only take a day or so to finish up.  When my folks went on their vacation (for their 40th anniversary) my mom picked up some lighted crochet hooks for me, they are so cool to use, especially with dark yarns

Well, I have to get back to work, breaks over...lol...

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{ 01:47, 2008-Sep-23 } { Posted by gabbie427 }

Sounds like you have been busy both in the garden and in the kitchen!!!

God's Blessings,
Amy Jo