More food

The pumpkin seeds turned out delicious. I used the recipe from Kitchen Stewardship. They were soaked and dried before roasting so the nutrients are more readily available. Lots of good salt, and they were perfect. I want to make some more. Charlie will have a lot of pumpkin puree so I can get all the seeds.

The pickles were flat out nasty! I tried to like them because I hate to throw out so much time, effort, and food. I used regular cukes instead of the pickling kind. That's all I can think of that was different. Christina got me a half-bushel of pickling cukes while I was on vacation. I've made 9 quarts from them, and they taste fine so far.

The sauerkraut turned out fine. Charlie's parents really liked it! Wow. We ate one quart there, left one quart for his parents, and had one quart left here. It's almost gone. I made 3 more jars from a huge cabbage that we got at Lyda farm when we got our apples.

Actually, all the food we made for our trip was a success. His parents ate and enjoyed everything but the kefir which they won't try. A few coconut balls are left. L and I made 3 different batches of fruit-nut bars. The ginger one was made for Charlie. Miss Edith liked them, too. We didn't care as much for the chocolate batch. It was too dry. Charlie's parents liked it, so we left them at their house. The plain fruit-nut mix was the crowd favorite. It had some dried pear and banana mixed in with the coconut and almonds.

More food is cooking as I type.