Picklefest!

This was dinner, a recipe adapted from Cooking Light Magazine (Warm Pasta Salad with Shrimp)

I was planning to add chickpeas instead of the cannellini beans called for in the recipe but decided it didnt really need them. These are prawns that we caught ourselves (love that boat!!!) and the meal had fanastic flavour!


My canning adventures have continued this summer and I am still loving preserving my own food to last through the winter. I love seeing where my food comes from before I eat it. My cucumber crop was pitiful this year (apparently from a catastrophic lack of bees) so I went to a nearby u-pick farm with a girlfriend and her kids and we picked 50lbs of cukes. We made 35 litres of dills and then a dozen pints of bread and butter (yuck!! but DH loves them). It has been four weeks so I opened a jar last night and they were great!! Since we eat fish several times a week I make a great lowfat tartar sauce and my homemade pickles will make it even better!