Canning & Canning & Canning....

I guess today turned out pretty good! I got up early and got started on my tomato preserves, now they have to sit for 12-18 hours. Think those are really going to be good! Then I canned a bunch of crushed tomatoes and had a bowl of fresh tomato soup for lunch. Yum! In the past few weeks I've done a lot of canning, even though I didn't grow a  garden this year. Daddy has shared a lot with me, especially tomatoes! I've canned vegetable soup (my favorite in the winter), watermelon jelly, pickled watermelon rinds (better than they sound!), corn relish and some tomato and apple chutney. My watermelon jelly is more like syrup, so I'll be re-making it tomorrow when I work on the tomato preserves. I got a neat little book--The Prairie Girl's Guide to Life by Jennifer Worick. It has 50 projects and I thought it might be fun to just start at the beginning and do all the projects, or at least most of them. So first is brining an baking a turkey-since its just me and my husband, I baked a chicken. Its cooking now--will share pics and how good it turned out later on.

 Jackson is enjoying the tomatoes and other stuff out of the garden too. ha! Daddy brought me a big bag of tomatoes to the store and he loves to poke his little fingers in them and take bites out of them. I can't blame him-- you can't get much better than a fresh tomato!