Reaping the Harvest - Chicken Vegetable Soup
I LOVE wandering through the garden this time of year and gathering ingredients for dinner, and luckily it's cool enough today to make Chicken Vegetable Soup ! Our garden got a late start this year due to weather and a busy schedule, but it's going gangbusters now! The other day I canned 19 1/2 quarts of green beans (which gives me 60 quarts and 21 pints on the shelf) and 7 quarts of dill pickles (bringing me up to 35 jars of dills). Tomorrow we'll be doing lots of applesauce. I only have 20 quarts left and we go through 1 1/2 quarts at a time, so I'm hoping to get 70-80 quarts of applesauce this year. I should probably pick & can green beans again tomorrow as well.... I might just check & see if they'll hold off until Monday. Oops, a little side tracked there. :) Back to dinner .... Last night we had roast chicken, so today, I'll use what's left of that, simmer & debone, and I'll wander through my garden to add: potatoes, carr