Food, food and more food

It seems to run in cycles, but these days my life is all about food.

This morning I've made puttanesca sauce for dinner tonight (yes, my kids love anchovies!) and a batch of hummus (my son especially loves it).

I've been picking and cooking green beans every day for days, we got a little behind on the harvesting.

Tonight I'm going to make several batches of pesto with the basil I picked yesterday. Also picked bunches and bunches of mint, which are currently hanging to dry (we use dried mint in cooking several times a week.)

This weekend I'm going to try pickling cherry tomatoes and freezing the larger tomatoes that volunteered in our garden this summer. Also, this weekend we will make an enormous batch of red sauce the way the Italian's nonna used to make it, which involves large quantities of canned tomatoes, meat and many, many hours of cooking down (stirring every twelve minutes!)

Hooray for good food! I feel like a squirrel, packing food away for the winter, but there's nothing like food in the freezer to give you a warm feeling.