Hello There,

Remember this strawberry goodness I grew, well some of it ended up like this. . ..  what better way to use berries, right?

I’m a new home wine maker and I have been storing these three gallon jugs of Strawberry, Mixed Berry and Blue Berry wine in a closet for a few months until they were ready to bottle.  Well today was the day.. .. . . . .

This is a photo of the Strawberry wine after bottling.  Now more waiting. . .. 9 more months of waiting.  Can I wait that long, time will tell.

If you are interested in wine making check out You Tube and of course there are many books on the subject.  It’s not difficult and it’s fun to make and fun to drink too, grin.

On another note. . ..

Today Russ and I are celebrating our 25th anniversary.  It seems like yesterday we were this young.  But, like fine wine it only got better with time.  I’m looking forward to spending many, many more years with the love of my life.  Cheers Baby!

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Baby it’s cooollllldddd outside!  That is why I’m in the kitchen with the oven on, lol.  Also, I have gotten so many requests for me to show more freezer meal options.  Here is one for you that the whole family will love.

I have a hard time keeping homemade pizza pockets in the freezer these days.  They are so good and once in the freezer they are ready to eat after 40 seconds in the microwave.  Lunch in 40 seconds, that rocks!

Here is how I made them. . . . .

You can use store bought pizza dough for these.  I used pizza dough I whipped up in my bread machine.  Any pizza dough will work.  Want a healthy dough use whole wheat pizza dough.  🙂

Roll a bit of the dough out in a circle on a floured surface, I use my counter.  Roll it out to the size of your hand.

Add a spoon full of pizza sauce, don’t get too saucy or it will make your dough wet and it won’t stick together.  Leave about 1/2″ of the edge of the dough dry.

Add whatever you want as filling.  I made mine simple with turkey pepperoni and cheese.

Fold the dough over.

Roll the edges up and pinch to seal.

Using the tines of a fork, go around the edges pressing down to seal well.

Put them on a parchment paper lined cookie sheet and put a small slit in the top of each one to let the steam release during cooking.

Mix together a few tablespoons of Olive Oil, 1 t. spoon of garlic powder and 1 t. of parsley flakes.  Brush this mixture on top of the pizza pockets.  Gives the pocket a great garlic taste, mmmm.

Bake in a 350 oven for 15-20 minutes.  Take them out of the oven and cool completely.  Wrap each one separately with plastic wrap and put in a gallon size freezer bag.  Label and freeze.  When ready to use microwave unwrapped frozen pizza pocket on high for 40 seconds.  Enjoy!

One more thing that you can make at home that you will know exactly what is in it and save quite a bit of money doing it.

Stay warm!

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Hello there,

I’ve been MIA from the blog today because it was time to dig up those carrots, scrub them, peel them, cut them up and can them.   We now have glazed carrots with orange juice and brown sugar glaze and plain carrots ready to be put in the pantry.

If you are a gardener you know just how satisfying it can be to look at a counter full of canned goods, you will be enjoying all Winter long, that you put up with your own two hands from seed to table.  Ahhhh!  I’m doing the happy dance.

The past couple of weeks it was everything I could do to put up two trees worth of pears.  But we now have pear sauce, jam and syrup.

Week before that it was all about the tomatoes.  I now have stashed away all the tomato sauce and spaghetti sauce we will need for the entire year.

Does this sound familiar to anyone?

I still have frozen tomatoes and strawberries to deal with in the freezer.  I think I will can some BBQ sauce and strawberry jam.

So if you ever wondered what I do for fun in my spare time, now you know, I CAN!

Have a wonderful evening!

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Hello There,

Happy Sunday!  I hope you are having a relaxing weekend.  But if you are anything like me you tend to use the weekend to get caught up on things.  🙂

It’s strawberry time here.  I have a little patch of strawberries that gives me about a quarter a day from the last week of May to the end of June.  That is if I get out early to pick them before the local birds eat them.

They are yummy just eaten as is, straight from the garden.   We have had strawberry short cake a few times and this morning I made Fresh Strawberry Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins,  Mmmmmmmmmmmmm!

Click here to check out the Muffin Recipe.

Any strawberries left get frozen immediately to be used later in jam etc.

This is how I freeze them.  I rinse them off with cool water.  I hull them (cut the tops off).  Then I let them dry on a kitchen towel for a few moments.  After they are dry I put them on a cookie sheet in a single layer and par freeze them for 1 hour.  Then into a freezer bag and off to the freezer they go for later use.  Super simple!

The tops that I have cut off when hulling them are given to the girls as a treat.  We don’t waste anything we grow.  🙂

They love them.

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