The majority of my time this week was spent in the kitchen canning and freezing our garden produce. The weather has been a bit cooler and I’ve started doing some yard clean-up to get ahead on that for fall. Many of my flowers have finished blooming, so I’m cutting them…
Sometimes I can win against the squash bugs and actually get a good harvest of zucchini. If not, I can usually buy it for a great price at our local farmers’ market. I buy enough to shred some to freeze for future use. And then I make zucchini bread! This…
Beef Nacho Casserole was a favorite meal of my daughters as they were growing up. Even now in their twenties, they request it as their birthday meal. It was one of the first meals they learned to cook. It’s a good meal to have children help prepare. Small children can…
Four out of six of us were down with a cold last week, so this week has been a week of catching up now that we’re feeling better. I did manage to do some canning, and we kept the gardens watered, but one afternoon I had no choice but to…