Playing catch up

Before:
A refrigerator with jars of chicken stock.
Half a bag of small hard apples
2 quarts of  applesauce that still has skins in it
a gallon or so of various chilis

After:
20 quarts of chicken stock
12 pints of apple butter
4 quarts of fermenting hot sauce

You gonna eat that part 3

For those of you who shop at Costco - this is one of their bags I bought in Minnesota.  I am not sure how much volume but the bag is 20x12x14 inches - and I had three of them.  I didn't even have to pick them - just cart them away (I did, however clean up the windfalls for the hens)

That many apples made:
30 pints of applesauce
1 gallon dried apples
2 gallons apple juice

And I still have one to go.

New Produce etc.

 Well, not garden pics exactly.  Hubby picked this squash on Tuesday - our table is 42" wide.

We ate it last night in succotash.  This is my favorite summer squash now - thin skinned with a delicate flavor, yet it did not get mushy when sauteed.




I canned spiced honey peach jam on Wednesday.  There is one more picking left on the neighbor's tree - if I can get to it.









FIRST TOMATOES PICKED THURSDAY

well, other than cherries of course.  These are Oregon Spring. The plant was given to us by the manager of the Ppatches back in May.  It is highly acidic, and not very tomatoey, and should have been ripe before the 4th of July.

It was still WAAAAY better than the offerings down at King Soopers.

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