Goodness, I've been busy in the kitchen these past several days! We purchased some red and green peppers along with several long hots. In addition to that I got 10 pounds of beets, cabbage, frying peppers, yams. All this stuff was for canning or cooking projects. The cabbage, along with hamburger from Sam's was for pigs (stuffed cabbage). We had that 2 nights and I froze a container for a third meal in another few weeks. I still have one head of cabbage - not sure what I'm going to do with that. The peppers were to try two canning recipes along with trying out the steam canner I purchased. I made Hot Pickled Sweet Peppers yesterday. It had better be outstanding as it took quite a bit of time. First time through a recipe always takes more time but this one... well, the sweet peppers, red and green had to be roasted in the oven and then peeled. There were also hot peppers to seed and cut and they got mixed up and covered with a brine and canned. I've never roasted/peeled peppers before. After quartering them, removing the seeds and ribs, they were roasted for 20 minutes in a 450 oven and then covered with foil to steam. The directions said to steam in a brown bag but the foil just sounded better. I then started peeling... just didn't work. The skin just wouldn't come off. After trying with several pieces, I popped them back in the oven for another 20 minutes and voila, they were relatively easy to peel. I'll wait several weeks before I try them - sure hope they are worth it. The second batch was relatively easy - clean and cut red and green peppers, heat in a brine that was hot, pack in jars and can. I still have to do something with the beets - that's tomorrow.
Tonight we have chicken on the grill with BBQ sauce I made. We really like that sauce!
It's dark out and has been raining off and on...I'll just grill between the rain drops.
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