Food, food and paint

On the food front:
This Peach Butter Recipe is my favorite new thing.  Even though I could never find any ripe peaches, it worked just grand.  I think I actually made about half of this recipe, and it filled 2 of those 14 oz. coconut oil jars perfectly.  I'm not sure how many pounds I had, but I had about 15 peaches, so I used half the water and sugar.
I accidentally deleted the picture, but we put cream cheese and this peach butter onto some whole-wheat pecan waffles.  I made enough waffles for an afternoon snack, breakfast the next morning, and to put a gallon size bag in the freezer.  I love planning ahead.

Then for dinner I made This Tomato Soup.  I actually doubled the recipe without doubling the roux, for our health's sake.  I love it because there are so many vegetables in there all blended in.  And it's was perfectly creamy/cheesy and vegetable-y.  It wasn't the girls' favorite, but I gave them bread for dipping and they cleaned their bowls.

I painted the kitchen!  What used to be dark red is now a very light gray.

It's a pretty fat wall of nothing.  I think that lone window needs a rod and a curtain.  And the wall needs stuff.
We've let these things go for years.  We'll survive the 2 years it takes me to get curtains and "stuff."  I'm just very happy with my gray wall right now.