Happy Mother's Day! This is what greets us at the front door right now. Isn't life grand! I'm trying to figure out how to quilt it...maybe bargello? I'll have to talk to Judy K. the queen of bargello...she'll know. The kids (not goats) came home and surprized me today with supper and flowers. Nice! We've been enjoying asparagus and rubarb from the garden. Is it early? Oh yes, and I really, really, did see our own Wiarton Willie wondering around his outdoor enclosure last week...I guess he's not dead. I didn't see him at all last year. Someone really should plant some edible grasses in there for him. The weeds aren't very becoming or nutritious I would think....whoops, stay out of town politics....stop the brain and go back to your happy place....quilting.....fabric......food....still looking for a chili sauce recipe....

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• I did not post that recipe at 12:53 AM. I do sleep. Honest!
  by JS on 15 May 2008 at 12:54 a.m.
• Chili Sauce 30 tomatoes – about 6 quarts 6 large onions, thinly sliced 4 red peppers, finely chopped 2 or 3 hot peppers, seeded and finely chopped 1 cup cider vinegar 2 tbsp. coarse salt 2 cups granulated sugar ½ cup mixed pickling spice (wrapped in cheesecloth bag) Peel and chop the tomatoes and heat them in a large saucepan until they are thoroughly softened. Strain off about 4 cups of the juice (keep it for drinking). Add the remaining ingredients to the tomatoes. Simmer gently for about 2 hours, or until the chili sauce is the desired thickness. Remove the pickling spice. Bottle in hot sterile jars and seal. Makes approximately 18 cups. Notes for Ted: (1) To peel tomatoes, dunk whole tomatoes, several at a time, into a pan of simmering water. Remove immediately when skins start to split and dunk them in cold water. Peel. (2) If tomatoes are overly juicy and chili sauce does not want to thicken, I sometimes help it along with a mixture of a couple of tbsp. of cornstarch and cold water. (3) Be extra careful with those hot peppers and don’t stick your finger in your eye after handling them…
  by Janis who? on 15 May 2008 at 12:53 a.m.

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