Pimento Cheese

I have been home most of the day and enjoyed the time so much after working all week. I spent all morning canning tomatoes and pizza sauce.  I will probably have another batch of pizza sauce to make this week. The tomatoes are still coming on. I'm thankful to have all these veggies from the garden but this time of year I'm ready to be done with it!

Pimento Cheese
I made this recipe last week and it was sooo yummy. I love all things cheese. This recipe was good with crackers, chips, veggies, pretzels, pretty much anything that can be dipped! It's a great appitizer to take to a party. Head on over to the farm kitchen page and the recipe will be waiting!!

Happy Weekend Everyone!!

I'm here...

Life is so busy. Today is the first day of school and work is crazy!!! Actually the last few weeks have been crazy. I usually don't work everyday but I am doing a long term position and WOW!! My hat goes off to all the full time working women out there. It is not easy working and then doing all of the home stuff too!!
Which I realize I'm a little spoiled. My love works so hard so that I don't have to. Have I mentioned that he is AMAZING and I LOVE him beyond anything that I could possibly explain!!!!

I am so thankful for my job. The people I work with are great and I enjoy it. I am blessed to be able to make my own schedule. However, my heart is at home. I love being a homemaker and taking care of my husband. I love making pies and cakes and cookies, cleaning, laundry, sewing, mowing grass, canning garden goodness. It is what God has made me to do and it brings me great joy to be a good steward with the home God has graciously provided me.

My love has been super busy as well. We have our own business so busy is good. We are pushing ourselves hard the next 6 weeks so we can really enjoy our break in October!!!

Anyways, I just wanted to let ya'll know I'm still here. I have so many things that I want to blog about!! Can't wait until life slows down a bit!! Hope all is well!!

I am currently eating this...

You can find the recipe on the Farm Kitchen page for Puppy Chow

Sarah Beth

Peaches Come from a Can.....

This is what my kitchen looked like yesterday....a MESS!!!

 I was canning peaches.

Ignore the ugly kitchen cabinets and walls in the background...

I had a bushel of north Carolina peaches to put up. They were so yummy!

I couldn't have gotten it all done without the help of my great mom!! She's the best. She has helped me pick beans too!!

 Freezer Jam

Peaches in light syrup



Peach and Pepper preserves

Out of one bushel of peaches I got...

13 half pints/jelly jar jam

9 half pints peach pepper preserves

13 pints frozen peaches

8 pints canned

1 peach cobbler

2 peach pies

6 rotten ones

18 ate fresh from the box



I do everything in pints because its just the two of us. Its a lot of work to do this but I enjoy it. It is very rewarding to me and I love having it over the next year!

I know you all are probably tired of hearing about my canning and preserving these last few post but that is my life right now. That and my day job.

This week....tomatoes......and more beans!

Busy Summer Time

The past week was so busy and it isn't slowing down anytime soon. It seems like everything in the garden comes in at once, visits with friends and family, mowing grass finally after the mower was broke for over a week. It all needs to be done at the same time. However, I enjoyed all of it. So here are a few pictures from my week...

Green beans

Corn

more corn....

more corn....

and more corn......

zucchini bread

Spent a day with my love at a dairy that is about 40 minutes away. They were having a vintage truck show!! Which my lover enjoyed!!

This is the truck my lover liked. Go big or go home...that's his motto!

Pretty cool jeep truck.

I decided that this could be my daily driver. It was sweet! We have a thing for trucks around our house. We love them!

And you can't go to a dairy without getting ICE CREAM!!! This has been my weakness this summer. I got one scoop of cookies and cream and it was the equivalent of three scoops! It was so yummy! Yeah I ate it all!

In between all that I visited with my friend from out of town, spent the day with my sissy, we went to IKEA for my first time....wow....what a great week!

This week I started back to work and canned more beans today!! I love canning! I have a bushel of peaches ripening up. Does anyone have any good peach recipes?? I would love to hear about them!



I'm Still Here!!

Hello All - I'm still here I will be posting some pictures of my week later today! It's been crazy busy!!
Have a great day and check back soon!!

Rose of Sharron

One of my fvorite things about summer are all the flowers! This is my Rose Of Sharron bush right out the back door! I love it! It has big white and purple blooms!

It also attracts humming birds. I love to sit on the deck and watch the huming birds in the morning...before it reaches 100 degrees.



Well, I'm out to go pick more beans! I hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Pickles

This time of the year the garden is going strong. We have been eating yellow squash and zuccihni like crazy! We have also had plenty of cucumbers, which I LOVE out of the garden. I had an abundance so I decided to make pickles!

The ones on the right are sweet pickles and the ones on the left are hot pickles. We don't eat that many so this amount should be perfect. I have never tried the hot pickles before its something new I thought I would try.

The sweet pickles are made using my grandmothers recipe.

I know you can't really see the recipe here but you can tell that this recipe is yellowed and old. I'm pretty sure this is my moms hand writing. At the top of the page it says "Moms Sweet Pickles". My mom asked me if I rewrote it on a card or something. I like it just the way it is. For some reason it seems like the condition of the recipe makes it better, more character or something.

Today I spent the day at the pool with my sissy, SIL, and their young'ens. Nice day! Then I came home and canned green beans! The corn will be ready by the end of the week and probably more beans. This is a busy time of year.

Did I mention that I am going back to work on August 8th for an 8 week position at school...it stinks that my summer is getting cut short!!

Does anyone else can their food. Sometimes I feel like a loner in my circle of friends!