
My dad prepared this mystery food just before Christmas. Some of it wound up as gifts.

Tomorrow I’ll be offering up one of those gifts to you, dear reader, in the first ever Shiny Cooking Giveaway Extravaganza™.
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Truly, these pickles only appear before you because I’m dead tired. Been working on a house all week and I’m a tad unused to hours of physical labor every day. It’s a good tired, I guess. There’s overdone tired and there’s muscles kind of achy but in the well-used and getting stronger way, and it’s the latter.
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I’m about to whip up some currant chiffon pie for you, but I thought I’d do some jealous-making first. Looky these raspberries, just picked from the bushes in the yard. Read more on raspberries, to make you jealous…

I’m making pasta sauce today. Woo! It calls for 45 pounds of tomatoes. Check this out, dudes. It’s nearly 15 pounds of tomatoes. See? 45 pounds isn’t that bad. The recipe, which is from the unfortunately-named Ball Blue Book
, claims to make 14 pints or 7 quarts.
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