I have just been plain busy lately with meetings, garden clubs, working in the back yard, preserving this and that, etc. etc. etc…
I have been working on a few Christmas presents. (will post about it as we get closer to Christmas)
I have finally created a barbeque sauce that I like to put in my baked beans. (will do a post about it… one day soon)
Cooking for the culinary group I am in. Our theme was Northern European cuisine last week. I made a traditional Scottish soup: Orange & Carrot Soup. It was good.
I stopped in a new little shop that is specializing in local and Texas growing produce and other local things. (will get a post together on that too… soon) It is a neat place and 7 miles from my house!
Made pancakes to stick in the freezer.
Even though I have been busy, I am thankful for the opportunity to be able to do all these neat things.
Sincerely, Emily
I was at that cute little store yesterday too buying tomatoes and going back today to get eggs (they didn’t have any yesterday)!
Thanks for telling me about Miss Scarlett’s!
Will look forward to your post about making Christmas items! It will be here before we know it! Glad you can be busy and get so much done! Nancy
You are right Nancy, Christmas will be here before we know it! I am happy to be getting a few things made and ready right now. I will have to be careful about what a reveal before Christmas, because some of those recipients stop by and read what I am writing about from time to time… I have to be sneaky about it I guess.
I wish we had little stores like that here in Australia! We don’t make enough of our home grown produce and farmers markets are few and far between. I like the idea of being able to buy someone elses carefully tended excess and feeding back into the local economy. Bollocks to the supermarket giants! Give me a sun kissed tomato any day!
I equate it to a little side-of-the-road farm stand. I really don’t see those here in South Texas like I do up in the northern states were I grew up. Sometimes I will see a truck on the side of the road with the tailgate down selling things, but you just never know when they will be there or really where the stuff is from.
We have one little shop that doesn’t have much most of the time but its actually a “take what you want” shop that doesn’t charge and is at the front of a large vinyard run by an eccentric American man. If we lived on any sort of a thoroughfare we would put one down the front here. I could offload some plants and once we get under production with veggies I could put some down there to. I would put eggs there as well but we aren’t allowed to sell them in Tasmania unless we have a license (that somehow makes them fresher and better quality even though all you do is bung them the money and they never inspect once!
). I wouldn’t trust tailgate sellers aside from the lady accross the Batman bridge here who sells her fresh stone fruit over Christmas to the tourists…she lives off the beaten path as well 
. We are lucky to get cherries at Christmas time here along with all of our stone fruits and berries 