Two weeks and a little newspaper

Two weeks ago, I plucked all the tomatoes, and brought them inside.  Few showed any color other than green. I lined a basket with newspaper, wrapped them together, and let them ripen.

I've been checking them daily, and we have been eating them as they ripened.  Tasty.

Here's the recipe to ripen green tomatoes:
     tomatoes + newspaper + time (at room temperature) = mmm good

And after the rain ...

The sun came out today, and I headed out looking for mushrooms.  After a long dry spell, the boletes have finally begun to appear.  I snagged a one-pounder, a king bolete, my first of the season.

When the storms arrive

After a long dry spell from summer into fall, the rainy season has returned in earnest.  This has moved us into our "putting food by" mode.

Over the last few days we have smoked Chinook salmon and albacore, picked all the tomatoes, picked wild huckleberries, and dehydrated apples.