cassidyrose | feeling culinarily productive (Reply)

Last night I skinned, seeded, chopped and froze about twelve cups of our garden tomatoes. Overnight we dehydrated a number of apples that weren't so great fresh anymore. The dried ones are a success and S. is quite excited about them. S. didn't really want to go anywhere today (except to a store to look at toys and I was not up for that) so we made pumpkin bread together. It was about 100 times better than the last time I made that recipe and I wonder what went wrong last time. Oh well. He wouldn't leave the kitchen during the seventy minutes it was baking. ;-) He found red quinoa in our grain and bean drawer and wanted it for lunch so I made him some. He happily scarfed it up. Now I have a huge pot of vegetables and water on the stove slowly becoming vegetable broth and tonight I will make tomato-cheddar soup with some of our tomatoes. We are thinking we might try drying some of them over the next couple of days as well. Then I will need to relieve our plants of many more pounds of tomatoes later in the week and I will start the tomato cooking and storing process all over again. S. wants to bake with me more so later in the week we will make multi-grain bread together.

On top of all that I mopped the kitchen floor which is something I hate doing. Now I just feel extra-productive.