I might be going slightly crazy but I had a blast canning food this summer. I started on peaches a few years ago and slowly added peach jam and grape jelly. This year I canned peaches, pears, plum jam, spiced plum butter, apple butter, apple sauce, apple pie filling, dried apples, grape leather, grape juice, grape jelly and helped my mom can 80 pounds of chicken. I know I'm nuts but it was so worth it. The kids love the fruit so much better than the store and I have tons of gift of preserves to give out for Thanks and Christmas. Jeff loved the applesauce because he had it as a kid and the canned chicken is sooo good and easy for enchiladas and soups. The biggest downfall was very sore muscles and what I now call "harvest floor". If you see the picture of the counter top after grape juice just imagine what the floor looked like. Holy Cow! You don't feel like mopping because the next day it will look the exact same. Jeff was very understanding.
You might be wondering where you put food storage like this in a condo. Well, on top of my kitchen cupboards works well and we have more in our room. It's so beautiful isn't it?
2 comments:
wow, I am so impressed! Great job!
Risae, that is awesome. Dan and I did some applesauce, and that was it. I can't imagine doing all of what you did. You're amazing!
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