From My Home to Yours: 10/17/25 and 10/24/25

  From My Home to Yours

10/24/25

~ Sickness and a lot of extra work! ~

Let's talk about the extra work first!

The produce we brought back from our overnight trip away that I talked about in my last post had to be preserved.

I started with this box of peppers, yes, they were as big as they look in the picture!  Can you believe we paid $7 for the whole box.  There were 36 peppers in the box!

I made stuffed peppers out of all of them.  All but these 6 were frozen before cooking and added to the freezer part of our pantry.

Cooked and ready to serve... and yes, they were delicious!

I took the tops of the peppers that I cut off and turned them into chunks for adding to dishes, stir fry, roasting, etc.  These were flash frozen and then added to the freezer part of my pantry.

I'm still working on my version of the #everylittlebitcountschallenge, so this counted as day 23  ...  hang on, I'm not done, that's only the peppers!

On days 24 and 25, I made chunky applesauce, 7 one day and 7 the next.  I like to use applesauce in making applesauce bread, as an ingredient that replaces the oil in granola and of course to eat.

On day 26, I took two family packs of ground beef out of the freezer, thawed them and made multiple meatballs and hamburger patties for the freezer.  I cooked both the meatballs and the hamburger patties since the ground beef had been thawed.  I don't have pictures of either, this is about when my asthma flare up began and I was pushing myself to just get done so I could call it a day.

For day 27, after I got to feeling better, I made two apple pies.  One I left uncooked and froze it and the other I cooked for us to enjoy.  This is the method for making apple pies that uses the crumbly topping of flour, sugar and butter for the top crust instead of a pastry crust.  Yes, it was delicious!  I plan to make about 3 more pies for the freezer.

On day 28, I preserved garlic.  I started 2 jars of fermented honey garlic and one jar of plain fermented garlic using whey, water and the garlic.

You can see the applesauce I canned behind the garlic.  No, as of this post I haven't gotten it labeled, dated and put away.  I needed the garlic to be where I would see it and be reminded to burp it a couple of times a day for 3 days.  Then into the refrigerator it will go until I'm ready to use it.  The honey fermented garlic will be used for medicinal purposes and the plain fermented garlic will be used in cooking.

I'm still working on cleaning, inventorying and reorganizing my pantry.  Here's a snippet of one corner that's completed!  I try to work on this project at least a couple of times a week, more if I can manage it.  Sometimes, it's just a few minutes and sometimes I can carve out more time, but I continue to make progress and that makes me happy!

I've been trying to get back to sewing or doing something sewing related at least 15 minutes per day.  The past two weeks I managed 6 of the 14 days.  Being sick slowed me down, but I'm determined to knock out some 'been working on this too long' projects this winter plus some new things I want to stitch up.  While I don't have any completed sewing projects to show you, I can show you the Halloween treats I made and mailed to my grands last week ...

The one with the acorn is for the male grandchild and the one with the candy corn is for the female grandchildren.  I made each of my grandchildren one or the other, depending on their gender.  These were so simple to pull together.  Each package contains a card, small amount of candy, a special message and a family tradition that we do every year!  I can't wait for them to get their packages!  I don't know who is more excited, them or me!!!

I got the fifth and sixth lessons posted in our ladies Bible study on Abigail over on From This Heart of Mine.  If you are following along, I hope you are enjoying the study.

I think that about gets us caught up.  I still have quite a few apples to work up so that's where you'll find me this next week ... in the kitchen with the apples!  

I hope you've found something in my ramblings that will help and or encourage you in the upcoming week.

Until the next time ...

mrs. patsi @ A Working Pantry

~ quietly holding the home front ~

She looketh well to the ways of her household … Proverbs 31:27 

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