Roswell Adventures

Last year we quickly went from "Oh, look, a squash" to "Holy cats! What are we going to do with all of them?!?!" When we were visiting a winery in Nebraska last summer, we bought a jar of squash pickles and thoroughly enjoyed them. So, I set out to hunt down a recipe I liked. After more than a little tweaking, I came up with these beauties...  As you can easily see, there is more in there than just squash :) I add in red & yellow (or orange) bell peppers, onions, and jalapenos.  Now to get started...   Slice your squash and onions, put them in an enamel-lined pot. Sprinkle with pickling salt, cover and let sit for an hour. These are our dried chiles from last year's harvest. I rinsed the dust off a couple then tore them into strips - totally guessing about how much to use. If they are too spicy for me, Chuck will still love them :)   I use about a half a bell pepper and 3-4 jalapenos for each batch. The ja...

It has been a crazy-busy summer filled with travels - both for fun and work - as well as a busy work schedule. Thanks to some buddies at work (Thanks, Desi, Jazz & Lauren!) our garden is going great. A picture paints a thousand words, so I'm going to shut up now... Our large front section of bales. We had some interesting setbacks concerning a couple of the bales, and the beans didn't like their location much. Have added in some rainbow chard and beets.   Cabbage worms have attacked...but we're trying to get on top of the situation by picking off eggs and 'pillars every day.   Our front bales. Squash and some beans are doing well...   ...others didn't do so great, so I planted beets and some onions :)   Onions in the back bales are coming along nicely. We started them from sets...and this is a first for us.   Squash against the back fence are producing lots of foliage, but not as much fruit as you would think...but I'm sure tha...