Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Harvesting and Cooking


I’ve been cooking the last two days. These are the tomatoes I gathered during the past week.

I peeled and chopped them, and added them to some sautéed onion and garlic in a large pot. A bit of seasoning and some tomato paste to thicken, and voila!

Seven quarts of marinara sauce.

And on Sunday, four pounds of blackberries turned into this…

to make several containers of blackberry jam for the freezer. We are eating some of these goodies now too.

With our family of five, this little bit that I preserve doesn’t hold us all year, but it is nice to make use of what we’ve grown and what nature provides. 

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