Late Summer Fun...45º

Saturday was a full day of pickling...I started early washing/scrubbing cucumbers and stuffing quart/pint jars with dill, garlic, hot peppers and grape leaves...Everything but the hot peppers and cucumbers were picked fresh from our garden...Bobi, trying to stay out of my way, but still be productive made a lentil/quinoa/tuna salad for our lunch...After lunch, Bobi took over scrubbing cukes and I stuffed the jars...We also had enough cukes to fill two gallon jars, cover with salt, vinegar, alum, and water, and let them brine for 6 weeks...Then I will slice them, add sugar to the brine, pack in pint jars and process for sweet pickle chips...By dinner time we had 12 pints and 22 quarts of dills cooling on the kitchen table...Herb and Cienna made their own peanut butter sandwiches for dinner and Bobi and I had more tuna salad and we all had a glass of wine and some of us had two glasses of wine!..Maybe we will have enough pickles for two years.

Ready to eat by Thanksgiving.

Early Sunday morning, Herb carried all the pickles downstairs to the cellar and I started washing/slicing tomatoes to roast...By 10am, we were all up, showered and had a big breakfast of pancakes covered in huckleberry compote, sausage on the side...The tomatoes were doing their slow roast, so we girls left Herb to babysit the tomatoes and we went yard saling...Lunch was fresh roasted tomatoes on bread or crackers or tuna salad...Cienna came home from yard saling with the original "Trivial Pursuit" from the 60's/70's and we spent the afternoon on the deck finding out how few of the answers we knew...Cienna is really at a disadvantage coming up with answers and I never was any good at this game, so we ended up giving each other lots of clues, so we could end the game and get onto dinner!

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Tomatoes Ready to Roast.

My famous "Mock Eggplant Parmesan" made a good dinner, although Herb got tired of waiting for us to cook and ate brownies and ice cream for his dinner...Hmmmm, might have to try that today, wonder how it will taste with wine?...Hugs To All...OWAV:)

Mock Eggplant Parmesan ready for the oven.