KITCHEN - I CAN do it - pickles, raspberries, and salsa

I've been travelling a lot lately in the past couple months - for work (Reno, Ely, Richfield) and pleasure (Victor, Wisconsin, Penticton) - but I've still managed to squeeze in some much needed spurts of frenzied canning.

Onions + cucumbers + vinegar/mustard seed/tumeric =

Pippi's Pickles!!! Special thanks to Rob's grandma for this delicious no-fail recipe.

Okay - onto some raspberries I jammed up into a fantastic raspberry plum jam. I'll have to take some after shots I suppose.

And batch #1 of salsa. I roasted 10 anaheim and 10 jalepeno peppers and this salsa still WAS NOT HOT. I'll have to go hunting around for the really hot peppers.

It wouldn't be the start of apple season without baking my award winning apple pie.

Special thanks to my fearless kitchen helper!

This is one of my very favorite times of year. I just LOVE all of the fresh, local produce available - not to mention my garden is brimming with goodies. Tomatoes, peppers, basil, butternut squash, and carrots have all done very well in our little plot. We have had to sacrifice the kohlrabi to the snails...