From the outset,any discussion of DEHYDRATING,please put it in the above What Are You Dehydrating thread.Its great,I've learned a lot and long may it continue...
Today I froze down a batch of French beans ( Blue Lake),more rhubarb( ready for the chutney) pickled some onions ( I pack em tight in the bed and pull em early to beat the white rot)and snagged a pound of blackberries from next doors jungle.I like a few with ice cream now and again,Mrs J like Blackberry vinegar,and I like it fermented with elderberries.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
I've frozen broad beans, peas and some raspberries to make jam later. Made a few pots of rhubarb and ginger jam and now I'm all
Looking forward to canning and pickling what's growing ATM.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
I am going to salt some runner beans soon. I always do a few ( mrs J ain't fond as she says the salt ain't good for my blood pressure- nor is work!) Then its plums. Don't like jam so it will be chutney.
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
I'll toss in some of the wild cherries I've been picking, we've now got a load of cherry jam. While I'm normally a raspberry jam kind of a cove, I'll have to broaden my horizons.
I'm looking at 5 jars of pickled beetroot and 6 jars of beetroot chutney, oh and I snuck a few peppers in the dehydrator too. I feel very chuffed. I'm a simple soul, easily pleased.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain~anon
More Blue lake beans today.Some for dinner, the rest for freezing.Marrows are coming in thick and fast too.I 'cure them in the sun,then hang each one in a rabbit purse net from the the rafters of the workshop.They last 'til about Christmas.We love 'em.The rest of the harvest will be for drying.That's for the other thread!
In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: It goes on.
Robert Frost.
Covid 19: After that level of weirdness ,any situation is certainly possible.
tomorrow I'll be pickling some and making chutney from others. Yum! 
