Fresh Garden Salsa

5 quarts ripe tomatoes
5 big onions (or more)
18 jalapeno peppers
1 cup white vinegar
1 1/2 cup sugar (more or less)
8 teaspoons canning salt
6 teaspoons garlic (minced or dried - you can add more if you like)
chopped cilantro (fresh or dried - just to you liking)

Drop tomatoes in boiling pot of water 15 - 20 seconds. Core and slip off peel. Run tomatoes, onions & peppers through food processor. Mix all ingredients together and bring to a boil. Turn down heat and simmer for and hour or so to cook down a little. Taste. Pour salsa into hot clean jars, 1/2 inch headroom. Hot water bath pints 10 min - quarts 15 min.

We would like to thank Merrie Rivers for the recipe. We tasted ours before it boiled and decided it would be great. We didn't taste it again after boiling. We also made ours chunky, but you can blend down in the food processor to your liking. We also boiled ours for about 1 1/2 hours to cook down more of the liquid for extra chunky. However you like it doesn't matter just add and take away until you find your own perfect recipe. Ours made 5 quarts and 1 pint.

Oh No...I Have Become My Mother!

If you don't understand my blog title please visit my mother's blog @ http://www.kitchgarden.blogspot.com/ for clarity. I have taken pictures of my garden and some of the fruits of our labor so that my mom can see what our garden looks like. I enlisted Charles to build me some garden boxes that had some architectural detail. I found a couple pictures online and showed them to him. He thought okay no problem and we were off to Lowes to purchase some wood. What he didn't realize is that it would take him two weekends to build my boxes. I guess I should say "Thank You!" everyday, but wouldn't you agree that they turned out great? Then I gently informed him that I would actually like two more 4x4 beds for next year. Oh well just another project to add to the list. Hope you enjoy!

Yellow Squash

Yellow Squash and Carrots

Center: Tomatoes; Right: Carrots, Onions & Peppers; Left: Spinach, Broccoli & Cabbage

From the inside looking out.

Another angle of the bed above.

One more time...same bed.

Cabbage

Center: Strawberries & Onions; Right: Yellow Squash; Left: Yellow Squash & Zucchini

Yellow Squash (okay so 7 squash plants may be overdoing it just a little)

Look at all of the baby yellow squash.

Zucchini (they were planted later than the squash, but they should catch up soon)

It's About Time!

Okay so I know it is about time I post something, but you know how things go. Well I guess I will start with the puppies; or as we know them as Larry, Moe & Curly or "The Chicklets". Daisy had them on our 2nd anniversary. What a gift! Charles is going to have a hard time trying to top this. They are 4 weeks old today. Here are a few pictures of them so you can see how much they have grown. The first two where taken when they were born.

The next one's are of them now.

From Left to Right: Curly, Moe & Larry
Larry likes to sleep on his back.
Moe (the runt).
From Left to Right: Moe, Curly & Larry
Larry and Tex

Daisy feeding them.