Work Day...36º

Most every day is a work day, because we don't do very much in a day...It is good to spread it out and hope we get most of it done before winter rolls around.

Early yesterday morning I chopped onions, celery, garlic and peppers to sauté before adding them to navy beans and ham for a huge pot of ham and bean soup...My latest method of cooking beans and ham is an easy one...I put navy beans (unsoaked) into a large pot, add water, broth, ham juice, cooked ham and bone and the veggies, cover and seal with foil...About 9am this goes into a 300º oven for about 1 hour, then lower heat to 200º and forget about it until 2pm...Remove from oven, turn heat up to 425º and mix a batch of cornbread...While that bakes, remove ham from pot, dice and return...Voilà, the perfect fall dinner...To make it even better, whip up honey butter for the cornbread.

Today we return to the wood pile for more stacking and splitting, if I hurry and finish this blog, I might have time to prep a sheet or two of tomatoes for roasting in a slow oven, while we are hard at work outside...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Sunrise

Moonset (is that a word)?