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KRAUT, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. We are fully stocked on sauerkraut!! Almost twice as much as we made last year. The single purple cabbage in the batch made everything lightly pink-tinged, and the very purple jar is from the layer that was just purple cabbage. This is incredibly easy to make, by [...] Silly as it seems to have ripe peppers, freshly-processed chickens, tons of herbs, and tomatoes coming soon, but not use them, I’m turning to frozen herbs and frozen roasted peppers and tomatoes plus a chicken from last fall to make a variation on this pulled chicken recipe. Gotta get the freezer emptied out in [...] Three quarts of pickled asparagus, one with extra spicy. So, we really dropped the ball on keeping everyone updated on the broiler chickens via the website. We really intended to, but it turned out that 150 chickens took up kind of a lot of time. So, here’s a retrospective of their lives … The chickens (affectionately known as nuggets) moved to pasture [...] Shelling peas on the couch, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. The shelling peas are coming on strong so we picked a big bowlful to shell while watching Buffy. I use the shells to make stock in case we need to feed any vegetarians, and I blanched and then quick-cooled the peas right in [...] We’ve been processing tomatoes, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. … a little at a time. We don’t have a pot that holds more than four quart-jars anyway so it works out. We have also slow-roasted and frozen a couple of pounds, and have dried some too. Pictured: Green Zebra; Ananas Noire; Black Prince; Brandywine; [...] And it wasn’t even that bad! I picked a gallon of blackberries on Saturday and on Sunday we turned it into … well … it was supposed to be jam. I didn’t put as much sugar as it called for because I tasted it and it was sweet enough partway through the sugar [...] |
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