It's a quiet Labor Day weekend for us which is good, because we are in the throes of tomato processing. On Tuesday I went to the Farmer's Market to pick up a crate of romas to supplement our own production. The crate sat around the kitchen for a few days awaiting the start of processing. Daisy, our curious lab, only snagged a couple (she enjoys collecting various items in her crate, and if we're lucky, she won't totally destroy them). My darling husband generally takes responsibility for making the tomato sauce and just today he mentioned "we" should make some salsa. I'm not sure if that was a royal "we", a true "we" or an actually "you" "we". He also took some of last year's strawberries out of the freezer (to make room for the tomato sauce) and now I think I'm expected to make some jam with that. How I would love to have a whole separate kitchen for processing. While it always takes a certain amount of motivation to can, it's probably better to do it now than later as school starts on Tuesday and finding the longer time blocks required for canning will be much more difficult.
We're experiencing the tropical depression of the remnants of Earl, and it's 20 degrees cooler today than yesterady so at least it's comfortable working in the kitchen. We're celebrating the cooler weather with our first roast in a while as well. Every 10 months of so we get a quarter beef cow from the neighbors. In the summer we tend to stick with the steaks, but as the weather cools, we bring out the roasts. Tonight it's a shoulder roast with crushed tomatoes and garlic and carrots and salt potatoes on the side. Perhaps a blueberry-peach cobbler for dessert! None of which I've started of course and won't really be able to start until 4pm!
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