Saturday "You are there" blogging

Hold on to your hats people – this is going to get exciting! I have a lot of produce to get whipped into some kind of usable shape before it goes bad. We had a frost Wednesday night, which had Larry out in the garden furiously yanking tomatoes and peppers from the vines and plants and hauling them into the house by the bucketload. I have two days to get it all dealt with or it is going to start rotting nad festering and that is not a pretty sight.

In keeping with the up to the minute nature of today’s posts, I am using my camera phone and with the exception of resizings, these photos are unedited. To get started, here are some of the veggies we will be dealing with today.

Tomatoes – they will be made into sauce, stewed tomatoes, roasted tomatoes and tomato/jalapeno jam [recipe coming Tuesday].

There are the last of summer squash – leave it to the aliens to survive the longest, eh? We will probably just eat them for dinner tonight. Those wax peppers will get pickled though.

I have 2 huge bags of peppers – the ones I don’t use for sauce will be frozen to use in chili, spaghetti and casseroles. And tomorrow I am making stuffed peppers – the recipe for those will be forthcoming as well. If you go by price of red peppers in the middle of the winter, this is about $500 worth of them.These are the hots – red cherry peppers, jalapenos, and more hungarians down in the bottom. Most of these will be pickled by the same method as the dills I did earlier this summer.
And, lest I forget, I have some tomatoes.

Stop back later on to see how I am doing – I promise to update at least twice today. Unless they just plain overwhelm me. Have a great Saturday!