Oh just can it!
August 27th, 2010 § Leave a Comment
That’s right, canning season is upon us! It completely snuck up on me this year, with all the unpacking, getting organized (HA) and chasing kiddos around I kind of forgot the garden was growing! Mother nature doesn’t wait so the tomatoes and corn had to be picked.
I didn’t do bad, had around 14 quarts of tomato juice plus several bags of frozen ones for chili and soups. Corn so far I have 19 pints plus some frozen and there’s still a bit left to harvest. I’ll be thankful for all the hard work when the cold winds of winter are blowing. It will be a little taste of summer on a gloomy day.
I love that many of my jars are the very same jars that my mother once toiled over. I often think of her when I’m standing over the hot stove with food bubbling away ready to “put up”. I know she would be proud of me. I wish I would’ve learned how to do it from her while she was alive. Guess I was just too young to realize that it was important. I remember thinking when I was a kid that I wish we could just have some “ready made” food for a change. Mom always cooked from scratch. Occasionally we would have a frozen pizza or something like that but her meals were always home cooked. I know now that I didn’t know how good I had it. I hope I am half as good of a cook as my mother because even half would be amazing!
Garden time!
August 10th, 2009 § Leave a Comment
