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Plum Sauce

Using some gorgeous Santa Rosa plums, I made a plum sauce on Saturday. I intended it for on top of Chocolate Ice Cream, and we did have it that way, but I’ve also been serving it scooped on top of our favorite breakfast porridge — Genius Breakfast Cereal. This morning, I am going to serve [...]

Drying & Freezing Fruit

I will show you some pictures of what I’m drying. My dehydrator has been going non-stop for a week. I only have the 3 trays that came with my American Harvest Snackmaster Dehydrator, which was given to me by a friend. I posted on Craig’s List yesterday that I am looking for more of these [...]

Making Tomato Sauce

Following the directions in the Ball Blue Book, I made tomato sauce yesterday with all the organic tomatoes we were given. I ended up with 11 quarts. Since 45 pounds makes about 7 quarts, I figure I was working with 70 pounds of tomatoes. Whew! I am game for more, but now that I’ve spent [...]

Wonderful Tomatoes

Tomatoes! My favorite fruit. A friend has access to the abundance of extra organic tomatoes from a local farm. She gave us 3 huge boxes of them yesterday.
That gives me some work to do today, making tomato sauce. I’ve never done it before.
I’d love to get more of these tomatoes. She said they’ll have extras [...]

Chunky Spiced Pear Jam

I had a friend over on Sunday afternoon. She was waiting for her husband to finish helping my husband. (They worked really hard.) She had a box full of very ripe pears. So we made jam. She was remembering some pear jam a friend had given her once and that’s what we tried to recreate. [...]