Sunday on the Homestead

-

 


Wet and gray describes another day here in the PNW.  It has been a nice Sunday.  We got up early and went to early service at church..  it feels strange to be home by 9:30 am!  But nice too!  The kids and I picked up the house and Hannah made pancakes and scrambled eggs for brunch. 


 


Tobin will be home late from work today.  He is still helping his dad clean out his house.  He said it should not be much longer till it is done.  I have meatloaf cooking in the oven, Leanne just put the garlic roasted potatoes in with the meatloaf and I have a pot of yummy pinto beans simmering on the stove.  Salad left to make and some dressing.. in a little bit.   Isaac is watching Bonanza reruns..  and Jacob is reading..  and I just spent some time on my message board catching up with things there.. 


 


Hannah just took Sierra over to her friend Makayla’s house for the afternoon.  The older girls have Bible Study tonight.  They invited a couple friends to join them. 


 


So the house is clean, dinner is simmering and I have some nice music playing for when Tobin walks in..  that always makes for an enjoyable evening..    No Pretender for us tonight.. I returned season 2 this morning at church to the friends who let us borrow it and have plans to go and get season 3 from them tomorrow…  Season 2 ended at a terrible place!!! Of course they do this on purpose.... LOL..  ok so you would have to be a Pretenders fan to appreciate any of that..   


 


That sums up my Sunday on the Homestead

Comments

  1. katiebellesmommaNovember 5, 2006 at 11:25 AM

    Crystal, I love reading your day to day life. Thanks for sharing!


    ~Beverly~

    ReplyDelete
  2. frtblssmNovember 5, 2006 at 11:57 PM

    Just curious...what is this show about? I have never seen it, or really heard about it, either. Thankyou. :)

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

All messages are moderated. After approval your message will be posted. Thank you for your comments!! Crystal :)

Popular posts from this blog

Canning Chicken Noodle-less Soup

-
Image
Today was one of those busy days that it seemed I was moving from the time my feet hit the floor until this evening.. But, I got so much done and that is a great feeling! :) One of my accomplishments today was canning 14 jars of chicken noodle-less soup. I call it “noodle-less” because you can’t can noodles. They end up falling apart. So I canned the chicken, veggies and broth. When I go to use the soup I will bring it to a boil and then add a handful of noodles (any type of pasta will work) and cook it until the noodles are done. Because I plan to add the pasta after the fact I wanted to make sure there was enough chicken broth to do this. So I only filled my jars about half to two thirds with chicken and veggies and then filled with chicken broth. Here is how I did this…. I started off with 2 chickens that were a total weight of about 10lbs. I put them in my 14 quart stock pot… I then added 2 gallons of water.. And 3 tablespoons salt.. I brought this ...
Read more

Canning Cabbage

-
Image
I had 4 large heads of cabbage that weighted about 25 pounds. We had some really hot days and I figured I better get the last of them picked soon. My daughter Sierra and I ended up processing 3 of them yesterday and I have one left for a meal on my menu this week. I made pickled cabbage and then canned up the last of the cabbage. Here is the recipe for the pickled cabbage (according to how I made it)… 8 pounds cabbage 1 large onion 1 ½ red peppers 1 lb carrots ¾ cup salt 9 cups water 12 cups white vinegar 10 cups sugar 1t mustard seed 1t celery seed Slice cabbage thinly. Slice onion and peppers. Grate carrots. Mix all veggies together in a very large bowl. Sprinkle with salt and mix in well. Let sit for 2 hours to soften veggies. Rinse veggies well.  In a large stock pot (mine was 14 quarts) combine water, vinegar, sugar, spices. Bring to a boil. Add cabbage/veggies. Bring to a boil. Fill hot pint jars with veggies using a slotted spoon. Fill jar with brine...
Read more

Canning Beef Stew

-
Image
In my last blog post I shared that I had bought 10 pounds of beef roast. I cut it all up and used 4 pounds in 2 crockpot freezer meals ( http://homesteadinghomemaker.blogspot.com/2012/02/two-more-crockpot-meals-for-freezer.html ) . I used the other 6 pounds of meat along with potatoes, carrots, onions and celery to can beef stew. Here were the general proportions I used in canning 7 quarts of beef stew.. 6# beef 2# potatoes 2# carrots 1# onions 1# celery After I cut up the meat and got the freezer meals done I moved to the beef stew. I peeled and cut up the potatoes and carrots. I chopped up the onions and sliced the celery. I pulled out 3 quarts of veggie stock from my freezer to use for liquid in the stew. You can use beef or chicken stock or you can use water. I did not add anything to thicken the liquid as usually thickeners don’t hold up in canning. You can thicken the broth after it is opened if you would like. I added 1 teaspoon salt to each of my ...
Read more