Here are some random pics I found on my phone:
One is the kids watching the Eagles at wegmans over lunch.
One is the kids at Barnes and Noble reading books.
There is John in the shed when he climbed on someone's bike. And John in his helmet with a tricycle.
There's Ellie reading the American Girl catalogue.
And eight kids in my van watching a movie while me and my friend Donna took turns getting haircuts.
garden
I am so sorry I have not updated my garden this summer.
Today we worked on cleaning it up a bit. Chris even burned the leftovers right there in the garden. Last week I finished pulling out the tomato plants and chris mowed the grass.
Some things that are left in the garden still: our kale forest, other kale forest, swiss chard, beets, spinach, horsradish, and a whole host of peppers. Chris has plans to cover them and keep getting peppers until december... see previous post about how we have peter piper beat. :-)
Enjoy the pics!
I love making soup for dinner in the fall. This one came together really quickly because I had frozen chicken broth and frozen cooked beans.
I really like the way tomatoes and kale pair together in a soup, and so does Sam. Just the other day he was actually asking for kale and tomato soup. We are enjoying the last of summer's bounty of tomatoes, and we have a forest of kale in the garden.
In this soup: chicken broth, two big tomatoes, eight or so stems of lactinato kale, 1/2 a zucchini, three potatoes, about 3 cups pinto beans. So far I have only seasoned with salt. I will add some garlic and onions and I'm not sure for herbs. I froze basil and parsley from my garden this year in oil and I am really happy with how it turned out!
I better go finish dinner! I still want to whip up a batch of GF biscuits. Have a favorite recipe to share?
Some yummy warm stewed apples with cornbread for lunch. Simple and delicious! very nice for this fall day.
It was the first time this year it has really felt like fall. Last night there was a frost advisory and Chris and I tucked or pepper plants in safe and warm. Of course I don't think it frosted last night, but better safe than sorry! Hopefully this weekend, we will get some plastic to cover them. Chris is hoping they last into december. We shall see.
YOU should see the amount of peppers we have already picked! We've got peter piper beat, that's all I have to say.
Happy fall!
Do you ever stress over how or if a meal you planned is going to come together? Me too. Like right now; I am wondering if this will work out in the end.
Planned for tonight: rice and cabbage, lamb patties, broccoli and satay sauce to pull it all together.
Right now, rice is done, cabbage is cooking, broccoli is cut, chicken broth for sauce is thawing.
Plan is to finish the cabbage and then sautee patties, finish the sauce and cook broccoli.
Eta for dinner: 15 mins. Hope it comes together!
Today when I was cutting up a spaghetti sqash for dinner, I found two seeds that had sprouted inside the squash! How cool and strange is that!?!? Have you ever seen a sprouted seed inside a squash?
