Squash Bugs

I pulled our squash and zuchinni plants today--they were just covered in squash bugs. I went out this morning and found probably two hundred on top of just two leaves... and we haven't gotten much squash and zuchini so I pulled them out of the ground.

We're probably going to replace with a fall crop like beets or something... something that doesn't attract as many bugs.

Pickles!

I've been pickling today and yesterday: I pickled okra, pickled banana peppers, pickled pickle relish, pickled jalapenos, pickled green cherry tomatoes... I used a brown sugar brine for some of the okra... dill pickles, bread and butter pickles, hot pickles even!

... and then I figured WHY NOT make some jelly too? So I made a habernero-pineapple jelly that I've had a recipe for about a year now...

And I'll spend the rest of the week cleaning up the kitchen.

Too long...

Been too long since my last blog post... it's amazing how the drudgery of daily life can slow down the creativity that I so enjoy!

Anyway, we went to Fiddler on the Roof at the New Theatre in Overland Park recently and I highly recommend it!