Sous Chef Needed

It seems that a day in the garden is always followed by a day in the kitchen. I spent yesterday tending to the vegetable garden in hopes of getting control of the weed situation. About 5 hours later I had completed 1/3 of it and had gained a plentiful harvest of lettuce, radishes, onions, beets, sugar peas and a quart of very ripe strawberries. The blueberry bushes and raspberry patch have also begun ripening. And so today was spent processing my harvest. The veggies have either been turned into a luscious salad or frozen for later use.

These beautiful raspberries came from a local farm market. Unfortunately, my harvest was a little too meager...but was a delicious addition to yesterday's breakfast.

These berries very quickly became.........

Yummy

Black Raspberry Jam!

The pie is nectarine/blueberry and was featured on the cover of this month's Country Living Magazine. It smells absolutely wonderful.....

Would you like a piece?

I just love homemade pickled beets! These 7 quarts just came out of the water bath...I can hear the lids popping as I write this. Now all that is left is the clean-up. I need a sous chef!

Hopefully I will have some time tomorrow to work on labels.