Another busy weekend.  I found a receipe for squash pickles so we are trying them. 

They are a refrigerator pickle.  I'll let you know in a couple of days what they taste like.  Rick only planted 6 squash plants but we are still getting too many squash. 

Blanched tomatoes for canning tomorrow night.  The beginning.

The result.

We'll be canning okra gumbo.  Basically it's tomatoes, onions, okra and garlic.  My mom made this dish from scratch.  She seasoned it with salt, pepper, chili powder, added corn, etc.  Rick cans it without any seasonings and it tastes very similiar to mom's.  I just don't understand that but it is wonderful.

Rick's canned green beans and mustard greens taste like they were cooked on the stove with a bit of ham/bacon yet they didn't and are wonderful.  I find that amazing.

The weekend flew by again.  But more dents in house cleaning were done.  Another box for Goodwill.  And garden things were taken care of . 

Rick cooked a pork butt on the pit for 24 hrs.  It is great.  We'll be eating that for a few days.  I made his bread again and it worked this time.  It's a flat bread with a hard crust and really soft inside.  He loves it.  

I also ordered seeds today for the fall garden.  It seems never ending but it's very fulfilling.  We know we could survive without stores and that is awesome.  Yet that is not our first choice.