Well I froze about 15 bags of mashed potatoes and then made perogies out of the rest of the mashed spuds. They were all the ones that got stabbed while we were digging the rest. They always spoil so fast I dont like to leave them. Thanks again for the tips.

 Cooking down more tomato sauce tonight.  Packed up the last of the green peppers from the dehydrator & a couple of trays of green pimentos.  I still have a bucket of pimentos, but some of them are turning red (finally!) & since they are an heirloom variety, I want to save the seeds from any that do turn red, so the pimentos will have to wait a little while before I dry the rest of them.  Enough of the tomatoes are ripening that I can continue to simmer them for sauce, then hold it overnight in the fridge, & combine two day's worth of ripening to puree together & cook down to make a batch large enough to fill the canner. Began to pull & clean up the blackened tomato plants.We are supposed to get snow Sunday night/Monday morning.

 Bottled more tomato sauce today, along with more pints of carrot, potatoes & onions. I used the little potatoes that are too small for anything else, & just scrubbed off the skins. Used the little onions, too.  I liberated the tomato cages & have about half of the vines in the garbage can, since that is all that would fit. The rest will have to wait until next week, I guess, but these ones will keep the can from blowing over in the coming storm. 

Last year I was careful with using the tomato sauce, since I didn't get many tomatoes, & I started the summer with 3 half pints left in my pantry.  This year, I have enough tomato sauce we can have spaghetti or chili whenever we want, which is good, because DH likes those, & so do I.  Comfort food heaven!

I liberated the tomato cages & tossed the white tomatoes over the fence for the steers. It's almost like playing fetch, except they don't bring it back - - they just run after it & eat it.

5 of the pimentos are turning red - - when they turn completely red, I will dehydrate them. 

 I picked some dry beans today and shelled them. There are a few more, but not many left. I pulled a radish that I'd let go to seed and hung it in the garage to finish drying. I'll use the seeds for sprouts this winter and save some to plant next year. The corn is drying in the garage, too, and I'm still putting by dill seed as it gets ready. Gathering seeds (beans, corn, etc.) is a lot easier than gathering vegetables, so I haven't spent as much time putting food by lately. 

For anyone who hasn't trien them the radish pods that are left after the radish go to seed are excellent in salads. Here radishes seem to all be ready in the same week and then go to seed really quickly. I leave 6 plants go to seed three I use for eating the pods and three are for next years seed, they have the same taste as the root only a little stronger. Also the pods pickled are wonderful.

An egg customer gave me enough frost bit tomatoes for 19 pints of tomato sauce!

Its supposed to rain 5 out of 7 days this week. on a dry day, well try to dig potatoes and sort so i can can the small ones.

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For anyone who hasn't trien them the radish pods that are left after the radish go to seed are excellent in salads.

I use them in salads, but I like to just snack on them, too. I let four or five go to seed, but the one I got last was a very large one that didn't want to dry.

I want to dig more dandelion roots this afternoon, since it rained last night and the ground shojld be easy to dig. 

Cinnamonhuskies:

An egg customer gave me enough frost bit tomatoes for 19 pints of tomato sauce!

What a blessing!

 One dehydrator is full of pimento slices & the other is drying apple slices for DD.  She had 6-7 bushels of 3 varieties of apples, from a neighbor's tree who couldn't find anyone else to use them.  DD had more than she could process for as ripe as they are, so I brought home 3 dozen of her jars & 3 bushels of apples with me, as well as all the red pimentos (one grocery bag plus three 8-quart buckets full). 

Half of the pimentos filled one dehydrator, but I need to use the berry screens with the sliced pimentos, so I can only fill one unit at a time, since I don't have enough berry screens for all the trays.

Before I left, we used one bushel to make cider & 2 very large apple crisps ( which her children ate for dessert for dinner & again for breakfast - quite happily - after all, apple crisp has oats, right?  )   DD is processing the 3 bushel or so left there into cider, juice & applesauce, while I do dehydrated sliced, bottled slices & more applesauce.

 I use the heat twice from the dehydrators, since the weather has cooled off - I don't have to turn on the furnace when the dehydrators are running, & The house smells great!

I envy you your apples.

I'm down  to roasting dandelion roots and gathering dill seed. Almost everything else is done, except for the J. artichokes. I put the dehydrator away for the season and took the canners downstairs. The kitchen looks empty - kind of like when the Christmas decorations are put away.