Working in the Sun Room..

Hello my dears.. 

Just a little post about the things I am preparing for the Craft Show on Saturday.. 

Terry has been working on our kitchen,.. (thank the Lord) 

Hunting season is over so he has been working away on varnishing and rehanging the doors.. 

The weather here in N. B. has been a bit Winter like, shall we say.. 

Cold and dull outside with a bit of snow..

So I turned up the heater, made a nice hot cup of coffee and got to it.. 

Cutting out circles of fabric...

Lots of tags and even ideas for serving... 

I used the little method of putting tags of kraft paper into milk and sticking them on.. So simple.. 

I wish I had known this method years ago.. 

This chore takes much longer then one would think.. 

Hopefully, it will help sell preserves.. 

Nice for Christmas gifts.. Perhaps??? 

Today was the third day preparing and making more stuff.. 

Today I made some Christmas Jam.. 

It is really good.. 

I will show that to you next time..

We had this soup today.. 

Carrot Cumin Soup

You can find the link to the recipe HERE..

I love the spice cumin and loved this soup.. 

I even toasted a few cumin seeds to sprinkle on top.. 

Then back to work... 

Bottling up the vinegars.. 

Nasturtium, Tarragon and Elderberry..

I included a recipe to use them to make a salad dressing.. 

Elderberry Vinegar Salad Dressing.. 

So good for you, too.. 

Lots of strawberry jam.. 

The one I sell the most of.. 

Apple Jelly.. 

 And then I decided to make some bags to put preserves in to give away for gifts.. 

They are not quite finished yet ... 

So dear friends this is my post for tonight.. 

Mission Point Craft Fair 

130 Mark Drive, 

St. John East.. 

near McAllister Place.. 

Nov. 28 at 9 am.. 

If you are nearby I hope you stop by and say hi... 

There will also be a flea market going on downstairs.. 

And Apple Spiced Cider using my recipe.. smile.. 

Take care, dear hearts and please know how much I appreciate your comments.. 

You girls rock!!

xo

Pickling by the Bay of Fundy...

Good Evening, my dears.. 

Welcome once again to the Blessed Hearth.. 

So glad you dropped by.. 

We have had a busy day here by the Bay of Fundy..

Terry brought down a huge box of cukes that he grew in our garden at home.. 

The ones in the picture above are what is left to do tomorrow, Lord willing.. 

I guess you could say we have had a pickling day here..

These are ones I made for us.. 

Baba's Deli Dills.. 

Supposedly the best pickles this side of the Danube River... 

Or some such place.. grin.. 

I remember I made them many years ago when we lived on our little hobby farm back in the seventies.. 

Only, I didn't have grape leaves and used bottled horseradish.. 

It is a Mennonite recipe from a book Terry bought me way back when... smile.. 

The other day I bought a new book for only ten dollars at Indigo.. 

And made this totally awesome Indian relish.. 

It has cumin which is one of my favorite spices and as you can 

see I could eat it with a spoon.. 

The recipe says that if you mix this relish with yogurt it becomes raita which is a salad that is served with Indian food as a cool counterpoint for spicy dishes and that it peps up meat and poultry..

Of course,  hubby would not even try it although the dear man chopped up all of those cukes to make it.. 

We made a double batch of mustard pickles which he cut up also.. 

It is hard to find a good man like that, eh? smile.. 

Soooo....

I made him a loaf of no knead bread found HERE..

And a fish chowder.. 

Oh.. and a batch of cucumber jelly which my friend suggested I should try and make.. 

Let's just say it has been a long day.. 

I am sitting in the chair there on the left writing to you dear girls...

It is quiet and believe it or not Terry turned the heat up here .. 

Almost time to go to bed but guess what? 

Tomorrow night this will be a busy time for this old summer cottage.. 

We will be having some company.. 

We had a phone call a couple of hours ago and our darling grandsons wanted to know if they could come and stay overnite

tomorrow.. 

We are so happy.. 

I was a bit worried it was not going to work out this year as a couple of them are working this Summer.. 

They are growing so fast.. 

Here they are last Summer enjoying Supper with Gramps.. 

This is one of my favorite photos.. 

The dear things.. 

God has been so good to us blessing us with such wonderful grandsons.. 

Needless to say...

This old grandmother had better get some rest as I need to do a bit of baking tomorrow and Terry is going to be picking up another bunch of dills for us to do... 

This coming Sunday will be Art in the Park and I always have a table there with some House of Henry things.. 

Hope you are having a blessed evening and thanks for dropping by.. 

Oh and thank you so much for the dear encouraging emails I have received the last week or so.. 

And the phone calls.. 

You guys are awesome and please know that I am praying for you all that God will bless and protect you and yours.. 

Hugs..

PS..If you would like the recipe for the Indian Relish just email me and I will send it to you or if enough want it I will post it on here next time.. Or you can buy the book.. grin.. 

Just too tired tonight to do it.. xo