Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Canning, canning, canning...


We picked up some nice ripe peaches in NY state and canned most of them..we got 7 quarts of peaches out of it all.
I used the Ball Blue book of food preservation for my recipe and used the light syrup. For the leftover peaches, we pureed them in the blender and froze them in ice cube trays for future smoothies...and the last thing we did was a delicious recipe of Brown Sugar peaches and Ice cream. (http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/brown-sugar-peaches-with-ice-cream.html) It was very delicious..you will definitely want to try this recipe. I would recomend using fresh peaches instead of ripe ones or else they get a little mushy.





Last night we cooked and pureed two gooseneck pumpkins bought from a great place to go apple/pumpkin picking. These pumpkins have so much meat in them! I got 9 pies out of two pumpkins and it was only $14 for the pumpkins!


picture from http://www.lab-retriever.net/board/let-pumpkin-harvest-t7364707.html?p=1964657026

Pochuck Valley farms was a very enjoyable place to get out for the day, enjoy some fresh apple cider, amazing carmel apples, and fresh apple cider donuts!(http://www.pochuckvalleyfarms.com/)
Tonight we will be canning apple pie fillings from the apples we picked at Pochucks according to this lady's recipe. (http://kathi-mygarden.blogspot.com/2007/10/making-apple-pie-filling-to-can.html)
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