My five happy things today.

[dreamflower]

1. I got a challenge up for October at the lotr_community! I was so upset that I did not get one up for September! I hope people will like this one! Very fitting for October.

2. Finally got to make my pickled cherry tomatoes.



These are all the ripe ones we had left, but we still have quite a lot of cherry tomatoes still on the vine!

3. We finished getting our Halloween decorations up! There are a few things we will wait until Halloween eve to put out, like our noisy ones and our animated ones, and we have some ideas for some new homemade ones.

4. I made something new for supper, a recipe I found in "Cooking Light" at the library: Black-eyed Pea Cakes with Corn Salsa and Sautéed Tomato and Onion KaleSpinach (Because I didn't have any kale and I like spinach better.) I accompanied the Pea Cakes, Corn Salsa and the Sautéed Spinach with a couple of small baked sweet potatoes.
It was a delicious meatless meal! And I think it would be perfect for New Year's Day!

BTW, I've been planning to post some pics of our sweet potato harvest.

These were harvested first:




A couple of weeks later:


This week (a couple of weeks after the previous harvest):



That's all of them!

5. This happy is really from yesterday, but it still makes me happy today (I couldn't resist watching it again), so for those of you who have yet to see it, Michelle Obama's speech in New Hampshire:

I love this woman so much--she is the best First Lady of my lifetime, and I go back to Eisenhower. Her classiness, strength and high standards are amazing.

Comments

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

Your produce looks divine! Will the potatoes keep for a long time?

[dreamflower]

If we are careful they should last most of the winter. A couple of the YouTube videos recommend keeping them in a cardboard box, with a layer of newspaper between each layer of the sweet potatoes, and storing them in cool dry room.

But I will also try to freeze some for fries, and also cook and mash some for the freezer.

[debriswoman]

Impressive harvest:-) Highly satisfying to grow such good things to eat:-)

[dreamflower]

Very much so. I find, that as with all my hobbies, different ones give me something different creatively. Growing some of our own food scratched a different itch than, say, writing fanfic or knitting or art.

[debriswoman]

Yes...I hop around between hobbies...and you are right, they suit different moods and purposes. Started sketching more than writing this year...it goes in cycles:-)

[engarian.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a great harvest of sweet potatoes, and I love the whole idea of pickled tomatoes. Yummy!

I do agree - Michelle Obama kicks ass. Fabulous, classy, highly intelligent and outspoken, literate, really fantastic woman. The worst thing about her husband coming to the end of his term in office isn't losing him, it's losing her.

- Erulisse (one L)

[dreamflower]

Those tomatoes are great! And we hope the sweet potatoes will last us a while!

*nods* She's awesome--and she'll keep being awesome even after the White House is long behind her.

[shirebound]

Michelle is the epitome of 'class'.

My dad used to pickle green tomatoes (yum), but I've never tasted ripe ones!

[dreamflower]

Yes, she truly is.

I found the recipe online a couple of years ago. I've never tried it green ones.

[danae_b]

*hugs*

Pickled tomatoes, yum! The sweet potatoes also look good

I'm going to miss Michelle so much *sigh*

[dreamflower]

*grin* Yum is right.

I have a feeling she won't disappear. I hope so, anyway. I could easily see President Clinton asking her to head up a commission on children's health, for example.

[lavendertook.livejournal.com]

What a wonderful garden haul. (-: I miss having a garden.

I finished watching the speech yesterday--she's just amazing.

[dreamflower]

Our garden has been very prolific this year.

She's incredible.