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Encouraging Hearts and Home 09.24.2020
Green Bean Soup, this soup tastes like summer time.!
Encouraging Hearts and Home 09.17.2020
Hello and Welcome!
Encouraging Hearts and Home 09.10.2020
Hello and Welcome!
As it turns out, we will have a very busy few months ahead of us! We have been asked and have agreed to continue hosting at the campground weekends only for the month of September. We also have to get our little wood stove that has been purchased, cleaned up, and installed! Plus take delivery of two cords of wood, and get it stacked and covered...And with the added expenses to get this final project completed we have taken on temporary jobs for the next few months.
That is our strategy, to work additional job(s) in lieu of payments for needed items. We were very lucky, each of us found a job on the same day. Plus our new employers were understanding of our weekend schedule for the month of September. When September closes, there will be fruit on our trees that will need to be processed and a few gardening and yard chores to get done, like I said a busy few months for us...
How about you, how do you handle the need for extra funds in your household?
Oven Roasted Delicata Squash and Onions
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Easy Oven Roasted Delicata Squash and Onions |
I did not like Delicata squash the first time I cooked it because quite honestly I cooked it with the wrong method. I view this delicate vegetable in the same light as other winter squash. I cut it in half, scraped out the seeds, and gave it a roast in the oven. Only to be disappointed, and vowing to not bother with it again.
Braised Green Beans with Tomato Garlic and Thyme
We were given a picking of green beans from the daughter and son-in-law's garden, those beans will be on our table tonight. Braised with tomatoes, garlic, and thyme. The only thing that would make them taste better, would be if we were sharing with family.
Tomatoes combine with green beans from the garden make a delicious braised vegetable dish. |
Encouraging Hearts and Home 09.03.2020
Hello and Welcome!
And just like that, August is gone! We are back home from camping and getting ready for the cooler weather ahead. Today we picked up a wood stove to install in our little apartment so we will be warm and cozy this winter. Our first winter in Montana was a bit chilly as we did not have time to get a stove installed before the cold weather came to visit and stayed!
We are also busy stocking the root cellar with basics we like to keep in bulk and taking stock of the jam left from last year while making plans for preserving the fruit in our little orchard that will be ready to harvest soon.
This year we have pears on the pear tree. Not a bumper crop but I am hoping to make a batch of my favorite Pear Butter. We will have lots of Italian Plums to get picked, dried, canned, and made into jam. Plus there will be apples to make into applesauce.
Also this fall we hope to get the gardens set up so we are ready for planting come spring. What are your fall/winter plans?