Ain't Life Just Peachy...

From the City...

Laura got a great deal on peaches from her farmer friend last week.  The day that she picked them up they were rock hard so we thought we wouldn't have to rush to get them done but little did we know that by the very next day, after 1 night of sitting in the van, they would be 100% ripe and ready to go.  So it was pretty much decided that the holiday monday would be spent peaching and peaching we did.   My sister Rosemary and I made 13 jars of canned peaches, 16 bags of puree for our babies and two freezer bags full for cobblers and pies.

1 bushel of ripe and ready to go peaches

Peach Puree for Babes

Trays of blanched peaches everywhere....

So good.

"Pimp that Preserve!"

Unpimped jars of goodies...

From the country.....

I just found this nifty contest over on the Well Preserved blog which tweaked my interest.

Pimp that Preserve: Canning & Preserving With Ashley English Giveaway

You pimp up (dress up) a jar of your favorite preserve good, send them a picture and you could win a “Canning & Preserving" book by fellow blogger Ashley English. Looks like a good read! I am gonna work on my jar entry today and post a pic of my pimped up preserve for the contest!

So check it out and if ya enter, Good Luck!

Are you outta your cherry pickin’ mind?

From the country…

Back during the first of July, we travelled to the Niagara’s (Grimsby, to be exact) and stopped at 2 Century Farm for our annual cherry trip, in which we brought home sour cherries to preserve for the winter months. We also picked some sweet cherries for fresh eating (a little too fresh they were devoured before we returned home...) This year I decided on 10, 7-litre baskets of sour cherries, which is ultimately too many cherries for a family of four (and growing…). I was literally drowning in bright red cherry juice. I canned, pitted and froze, baked, made cherry preserves and ate the sour suckers until the very last basket was finished, it nearly broke me, but alas the deed was done and the first of the spring fruit put away (the tally being sour cherries, strawberries, and some raspberries thus far).

Bring on the peaches, pears, plums and blueberries!