From My Home to Yours
~ Welcome to my week ... it's been a doozy!!! ~
I woke up Monday morning sick, and it took me 3 days to recover! That was the beginning of my week, today (Friday), the end of my week for blogging purposes, we've been in full blown hurricane prep mode as chances are increasing that our area will have an encounter with one Monday/Tuesday. How's that for a beginning and ending to a week!
In between the beginning and ending, I had about 24 hours that spanned over a two-day period of time and boy, did I ever fill it to the max ...
food preservation ...
sewing ...
writing ...
massive laundry from being sick, plus regular laundry ...
and about a thousand little things that it would take way more time than I have right now to share about!
Let's see what that one 24-hour period of time looked like ...
I believe we are ready for day 17 in my #everybitcountschallenge.
Day 17 ... I added 3 packages, each containing 2 cups of pumpkin, to the freezer part of my pantry ...
On the same day, after the pumpkin came out of the oven, I had these butternut squash ready to go in. I baked them at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. I didn't want them fully cooked, just enough to be easy to cube. I let them cool a bit once they came out of the oven, peeled them and then cubed them. Next, I prepared them for flash freezing and the next day when they were completely frozen, I bagged them up and returned them to the freezer part of my pantry. I got 2 full gallon ziplock bags from the 3-butternut squash. Since they were flash frozen, which keeps them from clumping together, I can easily take the amount I want from the bag and close it up again. I will use the cubes for roasting as a side dish or as an ingredient in roasted vegetables. (These were the butternut squash that hubby gleaned several days ago. I've been keeping an eye on them and noticed some bad spots forming. I took action as seen above. Keeping watch over what's in your pantry is an important aspect of pantry keeping.)
Remember in last week's post that I shared a picture, a teaser really, of a project my sister and I were working on together in-spite of living 12 hours apart. You can find the big reveal here along with some other projects I managed to finish ... Grandma's Got a Sewing Machine: A Hodge Podge of Sewing Projects!
I also posted the second lesson in our ladies Bible study on Abigail over on From This Heart of Mine.
That's all for this week!
I hope you've found something in my ramblings that will help and or encourage you in the upcoming week.
You might be interested in my other blogs ...
Oven mitts, trivets, bowl buddies (so you can place a bowl inside and then microwave), knitted dishcloths (if you knit). Any of these would compliment the kitchen towels.
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