was busy today!

Gawd I hate it when i'm busy...usually means I gotta sweat! I HATE sweating! but today was different...gots to sit in the a/c and make salads! made lots of cucumber salads, some for us and some for friends near by. did a bunch of bacon on the flat top grill, smoked sum pork loin, be smoking sum chicky tomarrow, ate a few BLT's for supper, and then back to making more "ahead" meals for this winter! friends near by keep bringing us stuff outta their gardens, and so I make meals outta it and freeze some and give some back. I have bundles of garlic hanging in the tent, prolly enough to last 2=3 years! lol, sure smells good tho! may hafta go to wally world and pick up a few additives for tomarrows chores. I do gotta smoke up some more crispy bacon for adding to different things. any of ya'll have a "dough" recipe for making ciminum, cinimum...oh heck you know what i'm trying to spell...I want to make up sum rolls and freeze them.

Well, if you're busy, that must mean that you're feeling okay. That's a good thing. And if you're busy, that keeps you from getting into trouble, and that's another good thing. Just save some work for this winter so that you are too busy to mess with that blasted snow machine! Darrel

You about left me speechless, I was figuring you were adding left hand fans to the "machine" to lift the "pretty" over John and dump in The Land of Fruits and Nuts. But here you are adding joy with yummys. 

yes...I have a vacuum machine and use it a lot. when I find good sales on meats I buy up and vacuum bag it. I also cut up or dice a lot of onions, bell peppers, mushrooms, and now cucumbers and do the salads too. freezer is about full right now. been taking some stuff into the boys at coffee in the mornings, so far they have loved every thing I've brought them!

I find vegies get mushy and loose all their liquid when thawed if I vac em and freeze. A flash freezer is what commercial producers use, and with the extreme deep freeze temp only small pointy ice crystals form and don't break the plants cell walls as much. The normal residential freezer is to slow and warm which causes large crystals to form and hence puncturing of the cell walls, then the liquid leaks out when thawed. that said I still vac pak onions and peppers for long cooking meals. I don't do corn as I'm type 2 and they is high glycemic. I mostly do canning and root cellaring as I have a cold basement here in Snota.

Edited by chaskaduo - 19 Aug 2019 at 8:06am

my old lady....oooops….I mean the loving wife has been working hard all week to try and match her mothers recipe for pickled cucumbers/onions. the original recipe left when her Mother passed. she made several batches and did several different things and I think she has it! I remember them when we were dating, and they was GOOD! she gave each one of her brothers a jar, and they all said she has mastered that recipe! WooHoo!