Whistle While You Work...

I am now gainfully employed. My neighbor and friend owns a silk screening business. She has been getting so many orders, with no advertising. She finally broke down and decided to hire someone to help. And that someone is me. It's a fairly posh job. Besides the fact that I'm on my feet most of the day, I get to go in after my kids go to school and come home when they get home. You can't ask for better than that. I love my job and my boss! Thanks Leslie!

Thundercake

Thundercake by Patricia Polacco is how we were introduced to thundercake. I have read this book to the girls over the years. But not until today, did we make the cake, the recipe being in the back of the book. There is an unexpected, weird, secret ingredient. I guess you'll have to read the book to find out what it is. The cake was/still is delicious. Especially delicious paired with MarGene's fudge frosting.

I didn't want monsoon season to pass again before we missed opportunity to make thundercake again. We have had a terrific season with lots of rain. Sometimes the storms bring really loud thunder, hard and fast rain and hail. I rather enjoy it. I love the smell of rain. The book, however, is about a little girl who is afraid of thunder. Her Babushka helps her overcome her fear by gathering all the ingredients for the cake and then baking the cake, getting it into the oven just in time. What a fun story.

Summer's Abundance

Mike helped me make 6 batches of peach jam! I went a little peach crazy. I got so many peaches then realized I had so little time to take care of them. Since I had 6 boxes of pectin, we made jam. We froze the rest. I think it will equal to about 8 gallon bags of frozen peaches. I guess we'll be eating alot of peach pie and cobbler this winter!
I also put up 4-5 gallon sized freezer bags of roasted New Mexico chilis. I wish I could get a good picture of these. I think I like the smell of fresh roasted chilis almost more than I like to eat them. They smelled so good. Our little white accord smelled like roasted chilis for days. (Mike wasn't too happy about that.) I have already made delicious chili rellenos with them. Oh, how I love summer's abundance!!