A few more tales from my little wanna-be farm. I had some containers that I was trying to grow beans in when I discovered that it was the cat's little private nesting home. I replaced those 2 pots with green chili's and bell peppers -and then put a string web around the plants so that she couldn't get her big ole self up into the pot to sit on my plants.
I actually grew some peppers....they were small and misshapen, but hey! Something grew! One of them was growing around another vine and they really didn't get that fat look to them. My green chili's were doing pretty good too. I wasn't sure when to pick them. I was afraid of leaving them there too long and something bad happening to them.
I roasted my 9 green chili's so that I could can them. I should have roasted them longer, but truth be told, I really had no idea what I was doing. The skin came off, so I think that's all that really matters.
I found that a squirrel hanging out in our backyard had developed a taste for peaches. It looks like he would just sit on the branch and nibble away. There were 2 peaches that I found on the tree that were nibbled on. I had 10 peaches this year and they are in the oven right now turning into a southern peach cobbler. It is smelling delicious in here!
It is chili roasting season here, so naturally it's time to go and buy some. I love this time of year with the smell of roasting chili's permeating the air. It is the smell of fall, hot air balloons and halloween. My friend decided that we needed to do medium chili's this year. She had to stand in-line for 30 minutes to get our 30 lb bag of chili's roasted. We take our chilies and roasting very seriously here!
The bag of green chilies was allowed to "sweat" overnight so that we could easily peel off the skin. By easy, I mean painstakingly! It is more of a scraping off and cleaning under the water. You need to wear gloves to protect your skin from the oils. These chili's were smelling a bit hotter than medium and it was making us cough. If you inhaled too sharply the hotness would just attack your respiratory system.
That 30 lb bag of chili's didn't seem like it was ever going to end, but it finally did. When I got them all into the pressure cooker, the smell really intensified. Poor Jordyn came downstairs and asked what the horrible smell was. She decided to tie a sweater around her face to try and keep from smelling it. Every time you would go outside and then back in the house you would be hit over the head with the smell. I think the smell is finally gone today....or we are just used to it by now.
My friend has a nifty little coffee pot that heats water in a minute which is perfect for canning. It makes it really easy to add the hot water to all the jars. We had 2 pressure canners going. My friend's was stacked 2 high and mine was 3 high. We had close to 40 half pints that we canned. I'm thinking......I know what people are getting for Christmas this year... :0)
To celebrate our awesomeness we decided to use my new blue jars to drink some ice cold lemonade. We like drinking out of mason jars in my family so when I saw these blue ones at my favorite place to blow money, I had to have them. Besides, what else could you do with such pretty jars? Certainly not can with them!
The lemonade was not freshly squeezed! It came from a bottle....cause ain't nobody got time for that!
Time to go and eat the peach cobbler that was homemade and homegrown....fingers crossed that it isn't horrible :0)
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