Peeling tomatoes is one of those things that I’ve always avoided. I don’t peel tomatoes for pasta sauce, and I make no-peel salsa. It’s always seemed potentially difficult, not to mention time-consuming and messy. Cutting and boiling and ice water and peeling? Surely that takes hours of tedium. Turns out not so much. I’ve been [...]
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After a ridiculously mild December and January, February has hit us full force. We have a bunch of snow, and more coming. Unlike some people, we have not decreed that everything close down for days on end, which I’m more than a little bit bitter about. I would like some snow days, too, please. Since [...] Part of the massive canning spree a few weeks ago was putting up about nine pints of salsa. Really mild salsa, since Maura is still resistant to things that she feels are “too spicy”, but salsa nonetheless. My initial plan was to try to can corn and black bean salsa, but since I don’t have [...] I know I mentioned that a few weeks ago, we went apple picking. At the same farm, they had pick-your-own raspberries. Initially, we were picking three pints. Just three–only three. Who needs more than three pints of raspberries? Since we planned to pick three pints, I assume that you guys have already realized that we [...] Last weekend, we went berry picking at Pioneer Trail Orchard, which–for those of you who are local–is out in Hiram. The plan was to pick three pints of raspberries and a few apples. Somehow, that turned into five pints of raspberries and twenty pounds of apples. I’m not the only person who has this happen, [...] The crazed fit of preserving over the weekend was mostly a success. I didn’t quite finish everything I’d hoped to, but I was pretty close. I also figured out where to store everything–my kitchen’s quite small, and doesn’t have nearly enough storage room for the sort of cooking and pantry-stocking that I do. Aside: Pantry [...] This was my plan for the weekend as of Thursday night: Go to the Indians game on Friday, hang out on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, maybe tidying the guest room or the dining room. Somehow, this is what it’s turned into: Go to the Indians game on Friday, go berry picking and apple picking Saturday, [...] Flower pic taken at my parents’ house over the weekend. I’m slowly training myself to pay attention to the ways that light falls, and I really like how this turned out–the foreground flower lit strongly, and the rest of the flowers fading into the distance. My parents’ backyard is like a jungle. They have plants [...] I’m not a vegan. I realize that a year or two back, vegan cupcakes allegedly took over the world, but that seems to have died down, and I have to admit that I never got around to trying said cupcakes. I tell you this not to establish some sort of anti-vegan bias (there isn’t one) [...] A while back, I posted about making peach-poblano jam and said that I’d post the cherry-vanilla jam soon. Soon is now! Jars of jam all finished up, and some of the cherry-vanilla jam in action–in a teacup with some Greek yogurt. I love jam on yogurt. With the peach jam, I got to start right [...] |
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