O How I Wish!

O how I wish I could show you pictures of my garden harvest today. Our Big Boy tomatoes are finally turning red! They are sure living up to their name too! They are easily twice the size of my fist. Just imagine seeing Silje hold one up to her face, and it’s about half the size of her face! Mmmmm!

Right now some are being washed and frozen whole in the buckets until I get a free afternoon to can a bunch of them into speghetti sauce, and others I will half and roast with some EVOO today, and then puree. I put 1 cup portions of the roasted tomato puree into freezer baggies to be used in sauces, soups, and other random dishes this winter.

I wish you could smell these peppers. They’re not big today, but so very fragrant. Putting your nose up to one of them smells like the entire pepper section at the grocery store.

I wish you could taste some of these apples that Silje and David and I just picked for apple crisp tonight. We picked just enough apples for 2 crisps. One for us, and one to feed the freezer for later this winter. They are so sweet. I cannot wait for cinnamon and nutmeg to be wafting through the rooms of the house.

There’s a beef roast right now in the crock pot, and it’s already starting to smell too. We’ll have roast with potatoes and vegis tonight, and tomorrow I’ll use the leftover beef and make some beef stroganoff. (One of Knut’s favorite.)

So to sum up: fresh peppers, roasting tomatoes, slow cooked beef and apple crisp at my house today. Now I just need a camera that can convey smells!