oh my goodness!

i haven't posted at all this month! i was doing so well! here are some pictures to update you:

i took last Saturday off and we went to Jackson to go to the Farmer's Market, Rainbow, Keifer's(UHMAYZEENG Mediterranean food - tried dolmas for the first time!)




passed this great house


last jars of jam for the summer :( i should have made more but that's okay!





i made some ketchup and pickled some green beans and red okra


i also made black bean hummus! we had THE most delightful boiled peanut hummus at the farmer's market and i had a knack for hummus and needed some more!


which required me to make my own tahini


and some garlicky quinoa salad!

all jammed up!

I can now cross off another one of my 24 before 24! I made blueberry jam this evening from the blueberries that Martha dropped off for me.
My pal Natalie and I(& Josh and well, her 2 daughters & her husband) are splitting a bag of 66 ears of corn. One of Josh's friends who owns a produce stand is selling the bag to us for a very good price so I'm pretty excited to freeze up some corn and live by corn for the rest of the summer!





Now I'm going to nestle up on the couch, watch a bit more of The Big Bang Theory and hit the hay! Martha dropped off a ton of DVD's that she thought Josh and I would be interested in. Curb Your Enthusiasm(which Josh LOVES), The Big Bang Theory(which I LOVE) some season volumes of King of the Hill, Family Guy and other silly feel good shows like that.

local blueberries & lemonade for MD

This is the fak'n bits pasta I made the other night with mayo, cream cheese, frozen peas, fak'n bits, ditallini pasta & salt and pepper!

I posted earlier on my Facebook that I was going to pick up some frozen blueberries tonight to make blueberry jam tomorrow, and my pal Martha commented saying that her sister had just dropped off some blueberries from her land and that she would bring some by my house. She just brought them by! I told her the recipe called for 5 cups, she brought 10 cups! I'm going to freeze some, I think and then make jam with 5 of the cups.

I'm clearly super stoked about them!


She also brought a gallon of Katelyn's Lemonade, I'm waiting for it to get cold before I try some.


I rearranged the kitchen this evening. Lulu's mat & bowls are beside the oven now instead of by the fridge. I'm going to do a separate post about my new organization tooling for my cans/jars of pasta/boxed foods and things, maybe tomorrow.