Kale for dinner
Last night we harvested a bunch of kale and actually ATE IT! LOL. I think it was the first time this YEAR that we ate any kale directly as a green for dinner. We braised it like usual. It was delicious. Cooked with our own potatoes and used our tomato liquid from last years canning instead of chicken broth! :)
Tomato Sauce Canned
Katherine processed the tomatoes that I brought back last weekend into a thick sauce. This time she canned in the pint and a half wide mouth jars. Here is a picture:
Sauerkraut
I checked the sauerkraut - it smells ok. I think that the large batch is ready to can. I am concerned about the smaller batch fermenting correctly The cabbage was so dry that there still isn't water over the top of the cabbage. I didn't see any mold in either though so i am going to let them go another week.
I am thinking of other ways of using the cabbage instead of sauerkraut since we don't seem to be using the sauerkraut that we have. I did see a recipe for canned "un-rolled" cabbage rolls that looks good. I may try that.
Hot Water-heater issues?
Katherine pointed out some vibrating pipes this morning near the hot water heater downstairs. I did some research online and tried a few things - flushed all the toilets, lowered the temp in the heater (I should have done that long ago - it was way too hot!), but the pipes still were vibrating. I decided to go ahead and purge the water heater. I read the manual and proceeded. It was pretty straight forward. So far so good, no more vibrations observed today anyway. I keep going down to check though, just in case.
Piano delivery!
Katherine has arranged for movers to deliver her piano today. She and Ken prepared a spot for it downstairs last weekend, Katherine got this piano from Ken's mom who is moving to Frederick soon.
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| The movers! |
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| In place! |
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| With Ken Sherrfey, the original user |
