Hot days and a portable AC

How many of you live in a hot area.  Here it was 90 degrees before 10am.  I also have a daughter that when she gets too hot her Blood Glucose skyrockets.  I worry about her if the power is out and it is summer.  This may be an option for her.   I don't usually like posting others work but this is worth it because this is genius!
How to Make your own cheap portable AC unit.
http://www.instructables.com/id/Simple-Cheap-Air-Conditioner/

First Aid kit

What is in your first aid kit.  Whether or not you are prepping or not, you should have a first aid kit at your home for emergencies.  And if you have kids, you will need it.  I was recently (this morning asked what my master list is.  Well here it is.

Band-Aids Eye Drops Eye pads Eye patch

Potassium iodine

Gloves

Alcohol Wipes

baby wipes

Pads

Tampons

Alcohol

Hydrogen peroxide

Witch hazel

Epson salt

bengay

blue emu

bar soap

anti bacterial soap

super glue

lemon drops

anise candy

Horehound

Mask

preparation H wipes

preparation H ointment

Hand warmers

Heat pad

hot water bottle

cold compresses

mentolatum (Vicks vapor rub)

Camphor oil

Lice shampoo

hand sanitizer

duct tape

First aid tape

Butterflies

Skin stapler

stapler remover

Staples

Raw honey

Solocaine

Whiskey

Vodka

Candles

Ace bandages

Othro boot

knee brace

ankle brace

wrist brace

popsicle sticks

tongue depressors

Gauze

Tefla pads

gauze pads

Qtips

Calamine lotion

Neosporin

Bractrim

Iodine

meat tenderizer

Tylenol

Aspirin Ibporphin

Scissors Lotramin Monistat Hydrocortisone Anti fungal Bandana Bottled water Sharpie Clean wash rags Some pennies Crutches Glucose meter Strips Glucose tablets Peppermint candy Ginger root tablets Motion sickness bracelets Peppermint tea Yarrow tea Chamomile tea Lavender Smelling salts Benedryl Allergy meds Epipen Scalpel Sutures Tweezers Hemostats Candle Oil lamp Flashlights Batteries Cotton Balls Baster Basting syringe Prescriptions for family Snake bite kit Tobacco Baking soda Olive oil I have been asked about the  meat tenderizer. Spider bites, bug bites ect.

Dilly beans (pickled green beans)

Last weekend at the farmers market, I picked up a bushel or so of green beans.  Miss S and I sat down and snapped them.  She loves snapping and shelling beans. She is such a little country girl.  Then it comes down to what are you going to make.  Well I have put up, 13 pints and a quart of green beans the regular way by cold packing and pressure canning, had a meal of green beans and potatoes from my garden, then I turned to dilly beans.  A friend turn me on to these a few years ago.  They are delish and easy for even a beginner as they are done by water bath canning.   You can water bath these because they are done in vinegar which the acid will prevent bacterial growth.  I looked through my canning books and recipes online out of curiosity.  There are tons of recipes listed but they are all the same and none of them are the same recipe I have so I thought I would share. They are a delicious little treat to eat just like pickles.

There are 2 recipes I have 1 for regular dilly beans and one for spicy.  I am posting both.  I hope you enjoy as much as we do.

 Dilly beans

• enough fresh green beans to fill a pint jar (snapped and washed) 
• 1 1/2 c vinegar 
• 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tbsp dill weed
• 1/4 tsp dill seed
• 1/4 tsp tumerac
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1 tsp red pepper flakes

Put your vinegar in a large sauce pan to boil.  Boil your jar/s to sterilize them.  Then pack raw fresh snapped green beans in the jar.  And in the clove of garlic and all the seasonings.  Then carefully poor the vinegar in the jars leaving 1 inch of head space.  Lid and boil for 15 minutes in a water bath canner.
Leave sitting for at least a week to let the flavor develop properly.

Spicy Dilly beans

• enough fresh green beans to fill a pint jar (snapped and washed) 
• Half of a fresh japeleno pepper ( no seeds for a milder burn seeds for good burn)
• 1 1/2 c vinegar 
• 1/4 tsp mustard seeds
• 1 tbsp dill weed
• 1/4 tsp dill seed
• 1/4 tsp tumerac
• 1 clove of garlic
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1 tsp cayenne pepper
• 1 tbsp red pepper flakes

Put your vinegar in a large sauce pan to boil.  Boil your jar/s to sterilize them.  Then pack raw fresh snapped green beans in the jar.  And in the clove of garlic and all the seasonings.  Then carefully poor the vinegar in the jars leaving 1 inch of head space.  Lid and boil for 15 minutes in a water bath canner.
Leave sitting for at least a week to let the flavor develop properly.  

I hope you like these dilly beans.  They are so Yummy! 

Oh Betty is looking good today!

So after the post yesterday, I made some strawberry pie filling.  Then this morning I made some strawberry betty.  Oh betty is so good.

Isn't she lovely?  And you know what, She is YUMMY!  Wanna know how to make it?  Well I guess I will share my recipe. If you twist my arm.

Strawberry Pie filling http://www.pickyourown.org/strawberrypiefilling.htm

To make it to Betty.

1/2 c sugar

3/4 c brown sugar

tsp salt

1/2 cup (2 sticks) butter

1 tbsp cinnimon

Mix and put over the top of your favorite pie filling.  bake 350 for 25 minutes

NOM NOM NOM

Would be delish with homemade vanilla ice cream.

Enjoy!!

Warning Yummieness ahead.

I just put up a batch of Blackberry pie filling.  I put it up (canned it) instead of just making the cobbler I have  planned for it, because at our house momma's rule is, 1 dessert at a time.  I still have devils food cake with cream cheese frosting in the fridge.  Which reminds me, I want a piece of cake.  Hang on back in a few....

Okay I am back and happy.  That was good. But I digress.  I put up a quart of blackberry pie filling so I can make blackberry cobbler.  It is not necessarily my favorite cobbler, peach is my favorite.  But Hubby loves black berry and the kids love blackberries.  Well to be perfectly honest cobbler isn't exactly my favorite anyway.  I am a brown betty nut.  I may have to make this into blackberry brown betty instead.  I have taken my ex mother in-laws recipe for apple brown betty and created others like peach betty, pear betty,  and so on.  Blackberry betty might just be the ticket.

The recipe I used for my pie filling isn't mine so I don't have the recipe for you but I do have a link for you.  This is the recipe I used.

http://canningusasupplystore.com/recipes/index.php/making-and-canning-blackberry-pie-filling

And I bought my berries from a local farmer at the farmers market.  They are so juicy and yummy.  When I decide what I end up making I will post pictures and tell you how yummy it is.

Busy Busy Busy

Sorry about being absent.  I have been busy.  You know the end of school year and all.  And this morning I have been busy busy busy.  I have the canner going and the dehydrator as well as bottling up MRCs.  Now I am uber hungry for beans.  I guess beans and fried squash and cornbreadd for dinner tonight.  Yummy.  I will be back on with new recipes this week I have been working on a few new ones.