Loaf Bread and Spice Blueberry and Peach Jam recipes

Another bread blog has been LONG in the making.  I have purchased my last loaf of bread from the grocery store, and I am making it from here on out.  Why?  BECAUSE IT IS SO EASY!!!  Plus, it tastes better.  And it is cheaper.  What could be better than that?  Nothing.  Repeat after me.  Nothing.

Oh, and did I mention it is best with spice blueberry and peach jam?  Homemade, of course.

Rabbit Soup! by Keith

 

Saturday morning after Rebecca left for the All Locals Farmers Market, I decided I wanted to try my hand at using the pressure canner on some soup.  I really felt like cooking a good Italian soup but I didn’t have any Italian sausage.  I did, however, have some rabbit in the freezer so I figured I could just grind it and make my own Italian rabbit sausage. 

Canning, and Cucumbers, and Pickles! Oh, my!

Pickles…  yummy. 

This week, we are making pickles.  I planned for this and so last week when I went to the Farmers’ Market I ordered a bushel of cucumbers, but I was only able to get half a bushel.  So, it looks like we will be doing this twice this season!  Yay!  That, by the way…  is a LOT of future pickles.  Last year, we only used less than half a bushel of cucumbers and still made over two dozen jars.  However, my family (there are seven of us so far, plus a baby on the way) can go through two jars of pickles during one meal of hamburgers and hotdogs…  plus, I am pregnant right now with all those crazy cravings and I tend to enjoy pickles a little more than I normally do.  Also, it is a great gift for visitors to the house or welcome gift for new people in the neighborhood.  Simply put…  You can never go wrong with pickles.