COVID-19 Quarantine - Day 149

Hey guys!  I've been doing a lot of fun things around the kitchen lately.  Storing my items from my garden, creating recipes from my garden, and cooking some tasty meals!  I thought I'd share some of what I've been up to this last week.  I want to go back to the Farmer's Market this weekend, but I had a cough a couple days this week and got all freaked out that I got the Rona at the Farmer's Market last weekend, that I talked to my doctor about it.  She was very nice and basically said to monitor the cough, but without other COVID specific symptoms, she didn't think it was necessary for us to do a test.  I'm still planning on staying home through the weekend to make sure there's nothing more to worry about with the cough, but I think it's fine.  I coughed a bit in the evening 2 consecutive days (but not through the night) and haven't coughed in 2 days since then.  I think it might be like when you find out a student in your class has lice and suddenly your head is really itchy.  You clear your throat and cough a minute and suddenly you can't stop doing it.  I know once school starts we'll all have to be extra careful, and I'll basically always assume I'm exposed/asymptomatic, but until then, it's up to me to take care of others.  Anyway... here's what I've been working on lately...

My harvest from yesterday!

Here's how the garden looks these days, since it's been a while...

My homemade pasta sauce!  All canned and everything!!  Cooking it took about 7 hours and canning it took another 2, so now we can't eat it.  😂🤦

Making and canning pasta sauce is messy business.  (Not pictured: The blobs of sauce that fell on the floor) 🤦🏼‍♀️

 I grew this cucumber!!  It was delicious!!  I have picked 3 cucumbers now from my couple of cucumber plants, which is 2 more pieces of produce that I got from my 9 zucchini and yellow squash plants.  

Making pasta sauce is messy business too!  Those tomatoes can really get some distance on the juice...  😳😳😳

Made some vanilla syrup for coffee!

More dried basil!  😍  My basil is growing extremely well in the garden! 

Had a loaf of bread that needed used up, so I made French Toast for the kids and froze the leftovers.