kitchen adventures.

so not too long ago i told you all about austin's pickling adventure, but we've been working on some other things in the kitchen recently, too.

first, we used this stuff, quinoa, to make some burgers.

once cooked in the rice cooker, it looks like this:

then we added some onions, carrots, cheeses, and spices to get this "burger" mixture.

and the quinoa apparently breaks apart to look like worms, kinda gross looking.

anyway, we formed them into burgers, cooked 'em up and here's what we ended up with.

and while they weren't gross, they weren't super either. kinda just tasted like bland rice on a bun. not one to make again but it was fun to try a new recipe.

and back in the canning department, we made some salsa!

the only veggies in the salsa that are from our garden are the peppers, we didn't have enough tomatoes to use our own... but still--it's homemade salsa!

austin also decided to go ahead and use those leftover cucumbers to make even more pickles. yuck. but hey, at least we shouldn't have to buy pickles for a few months!