It’s that time of year for me... I love it so much it ranks up there with Christmas! It’s canning season! It’s the time of the year when I tuck fruits of the harvest into gently sealed jars or freezer bags to sleep until it’s time for wintertime consumption. Yep. It’s lots of work. Hot and Sweaty.. lots of burned fingers but, to me it’s worth it. I love knowing EXACTLY what I am consuming… I think that my OCDness is coming out.. sorry.
Thanks to my friend Denise and her generous family, I have hit the motherload on the fruit and veggie front.. lots of things I never have canned/frozen before. Let’s see… she gave me corn, carrots, cucumbers for pickles, apples for applesauce, peaches, zucchini, yellow summer squash, green beans. Those are just the things that I am freezing/canning. She also has blessed me with eggplants, celery, peppers. My flowerbed garden is producing the most wonderful banana peppers and more tomatoes that I know what do with (I only put in 1 plant and wondered if that would be enough, now I am glad it’s only 1!) Holy cow, I am in heaven.
This year’s canning project is a little bit different.. see, Steve has decided that he likes veggies now.. some.. Corn.. carrots.. zucchini.. yellow squash..green beans.. SWOON!
Wednesday night, I was busy, I made applesauce, canned the peaches, froze the corn, carrots and squash. Steve helped me out too. He did the stuff like loading the jars into the dishwasher, husking the corn, (even taste testing the kernels after I cut them off the cob) and he even packed peaches into jars for me! Friday Night and Saturday morning I am doing the pickles and green beans… making zucchini cake from
Here.. Eggplants will be turned to Eggplant Parmesan and Almost Lasagne. I even froze them.. who knows the skys the limit.. I’ll be cooking all night! I am so psyched.
What have you been doing to keep busy these days? Drop me a line and keep in touch!
