Good morning! The pressure cooker has re-emerged! After disappearing some months back, Deb and I heard a knock on the door this morning, opened it up, and there it stood…our pressure cooker!
The timing was amazing as we had squash, and string beans ready to can, and the tomatoes are going to be right behind!
After much hugging, and high fiving all around, we welcomed it back into our home, and I gotta tell ya’…the little feller hit the ground working.
All jokes aside, which Deb puts me up to by the way, we’re canning as I’m writing this. Actually, we have just taken the first 7 quarts of squash off the burner, and the pressure cooker is cooling down now. As soon as those come out we’ll put on our first 7 quarts of string beans.
Tomorrow we should have enough squash to add with what little we had left today, to at least put up another 7 quarts. As for the string beans, I’m guessing there are at least 14-21 quarts we’ll get from yesterday afternoon, and this morning’s pick.
Our cucumbers we should start pickling by mid to end of the week. The lima beans are just beginning to put on, and still have a ton of bloom on them. They’re still a little while off, but we have quite a few of those in the ground, and three different varieties.
The corn, though it has not done as well as I’d hoped, (and I’m sure has caused the good Lord to frown down upon me on account of my occasional outbursts in regards to it’s not doing so well), has begun to start producing ears. It will still produce a fairly good crop.
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‘Ridin Out The Recession With Dub and Deb in “Miz Judi’s Kitchen’!
Note to Readers: There are a few things that Dub doesn’t know but one thing he does know is that the word ‘Riding’ (as in Riding Out the Recession) is spelled with a ‘g’ at the end. But Dub not only walks the walk, but speaks like he is: down home, true blue, and plain speakin’ country folk.
Dub and Deb are both native Floridians, live in Central Florida, and run a small business as well. They have five children, and seven grandchildren.
Both love to cook, love to laugh, grow a garden, and generally try to “aggravate” most anyone around them basically…all in good fun, of course!
