Getting closer. There are 6 sauce pots brewing and 2 crock pots.
I'm thinking this run will be 20 quarts

Finished out with 21 quarts.
Now I got to get picking more for next batch. We are on target for 100 quarts

How can it get any better. Everything except oil , breadcrumbs and a coworkers honey raised or grown by my hands.
Fried chicken, garden salad, homemade dressing and fried zucchini.

Fisherlady I had a bread machine (once 😁) and enjoyed the aftermath of throwing ingrediants into the pan, pushing the start button and coming back to a fresh loaf of bread (or Facsimile thereof 🙄)

OMGosh what a hoot... sometimes the pan might be half full with a hard crusted whatever it was (super for soups, stewed tomatoes, stuffing) and other times the loaf would mushroom overtop of the pan into something beyond imagination.

'That being said', once in a while a near (I said near😎) perfect loaf of bread.🍞

But seldom, when using the machine, did our house fill with the lovely aroma from fresh bread baking in the oven. Though at times, there was the essence of bread burning in the oven.😕

Nor did the machine bread, have the same flavor or texture as oven baked.

A tad too much of this, not enough of that, adding an ingrediant at the wrong time, using yeast straight from a refrigerator or whatever other excuse the machine could use and we'd usually end up with a lovely lump of crust.

Suddenly one day the machine disapeared and though I never asked, I've a feeling my bread machine sleeps in a land fill. Likely with all my failed attempts at baking a fresh loaf of homemade bread.

Today, I don't make my own dough but use the store bought stuff baking it in my oven (ok wife's oven) but only because, she enjoys fresh baked bread too. Plus it's nearly impossible for me to screw that up. 🤠

Better yet, find an Amish bake sale but you don't get that yummy smell, of fresh bread baking in the oven. Howeverrrrr, there is the option of fresh baked pies too!!!😃


P.S. I don't buy cake at those bake sales🍰. The Amish have this silly rule that sez "You can have your cake, but you can't eat it too". What's up with that? 😞

HT any thought to making up batches of bread dough and freezing it?


The machines work. Heck I know folks who use emm all the time to make breads of all kinds and they love em.

However, the problems are all too real when it comes to types of yeast and yes, the temperature of the yeast before adding and of course when to add ingrediants into the batch.

About to get real again this weekend. Tons of projects happening which include building a tiki bar, moving chickens outside and cooking up batch 2 of tomato sauce.
I just picked this box now along with the other 2 during the week.
Given last week's sauce, I'm expecting 25 quarts on this run. We will be very close to last year total of 50 quarts and I fully expect 2 more runs before season end.

18 quarts.
Chickens went outside in pen. See how they fare tomorrow.
Some little building progress but daylight wanes.

Also my peppers are non existent this year, I guess too much rain lol

Alright, enough of the horseradish.
Since Sunday, a box a day of tomatoes. Chile peppers I pick a few a day and save as long as possible until I actually get to make chili and salsa. We been throwing a few in the sauce along with jalapenos.
Pickle cukes are gaining ground , beans are daily but almost ready to explode into canning mode. Blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and strawberries all either frozen or jam. The fresh local corn has also been frozen. My peaches are canned and I don't see a resurgence on them. Pretty close to applesauce season now.
Herbs of course on the dehydrator daily.
The one thing we are lacking right now is pork. I have plenty chicken and beef but we miss pork.
Speaking of horseradish, mine never re developed.

I've been very soft on picking cabbage. Its ready by my wife doesn't like kraut so its only been harvested for slaw so far. I'm figuring it will be fine in the ground until fall then we will utilize it more with the ham.

This is our canning intake so far not counting frozen fruits , zucchini and corn.
My goal by end of September is 4 times the amount not including applesauce.
Everything in these jars has come from our garden or free foraging of berries except vinegar and sugar.

There are fish in the lake and they are starting to run the river,DSR reports that they are seeing and CATCHING a few every day.In a week or so I have to sort thru my SR gear and tie a few flys for the coming season.Sept 27th will be here before I know it

Just finished last  of beans, broccoli and zucchini. tomatoes should be good next week but are starting.  Making a batch of salsa tonight. Corn is in full swing. Onions are looking good as I pulled a few for the salsa. No peppers though. Winter squash seems to be looking good too. Should have lots of taters. My garlic was small but plentiful.  we did round bales this year and if it works out we will switch over next year. Need to check on my Kraut to see if it is souring

Nice Clint. We just finished the the sauce. 4 8 qt pots. In fridge and into jars Tuesday. Everything except onions which I don't grow are in there.
Hope you get lots exercise on that elbow after surgery.

Nah , I canned 20 jars , but had to purchase my peppers from the Amish. Bad grammar LOL. Don't know with the peppers, plants did ok, but no fruit. I am thinking too much rain and cool weather.   I cracked open the Kraut and she is startin to smell a bit. It seems there is not enough liquid though. Everything is damp in there, but there is not liquid even if I press down. Fist time jitters making it.

Sorry for graphics but 3 little pigs off to the butcher, 3rd one is on tractor hook when I took picture Next time I see them will be in my smokehouse and freezer. They be finished by Wednesday or Thursday.
Um. Bacon.