Thursday's Kitchen Cupboard ... Enchilada Sauce

Here is a before and after picture of my home canned enchilada sauce...

You can find the recipe and directions for the sauce here on the Canning Homemade web site. I did add one of my home grown cayenne peppers for a little heat ... it tastes great! I had a can of "Old El Paso" sauce in the cupboard ... the ingredients include MSG, soy protein, yeast extract and soybean oil ... I'm not going to miss any of those in my home canned version. Thanks for the recipe, Cindy!

I am adding this to Thursday's Kitchen Cupboard. Join Robin to find out what others are cooking up from their garden produce.

 Enjoy!

I'm Back ... and Pippin!

Wow!  I just realized that it has been almost a month since I posted.  Things have been very busy here on the Cove!  First I has held hostage by  my new loom for quite a while; weaving is totally addicting! (Photos coming soon, Laura :)  Then there were 80 pounds of tomatoes to be canned, an update/remodel of the garage pantry to make it more earthquake proof (post coming soon), planting the fall/winter garden (another post soon) and, most recently, traveling to Spokane to bring home our new puppy!

This is the photo I fell in love with when I saw it on the Silver Paw Cavachons blog.

Mike and I drove to Kristy's home in Spokane on Sunday to meet him ... it was love at first sight.  We named him Pippin (after one of the hobbits in Lord of the Rings).

Today he is exploring his new home ...

... getting to know his new best friend ...

... and just hangin' out with the rest of the pack.

I'll post about all the rest of the gardening and home keeping activities soon, but today I need to finish Pippin proofing the backyard (he's small enough to get through the fence).

Enjoy!

Today .. Aug. 19, 2012

I bought a loom!  It's an Ashford 20" Knitter's Rigid Heddle and I am having so mush fun!  FitzGyver claimed my first finished piece, a short scarf (short because one of my warp threads broke and I didn't know how to fix it) in a bright turquoise (Mike's favorite color).  I dyed commercial yarn for the warp and the weft was my own home spun ... Pics to come soon.  My second piece is still on the loom; almost finished.  This morning I'm spinning the yarn for the warp of my next piece ... some nice Corriedale Top that I bought last year from WC Mercantile on Etsy. I should be able to finish a couple hundred yards this morning ... and then I really need to get out into the garden, harvest and process the celery and get some fall veggies in the ground ... more to come ...

Deb

Wordless Wednesday ... *sigh*

Enjoy!