Jarring notions
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spacealien_vampMy beagle had his last post-surgery checkup on Friday, and his calcium ion level is normal, so he's free from vet visits until his next vaccinations come due.
Last time I made 8 cups of loquat jam. This weekend I picked four more bowls of loquats. After hours of chopping and removing seeds and 90 minutes of cranking the Victorio strainer, I was left with 8 PINTS of loquat puree. As our lockdown has been extended through May 31, I decided against using up all my sugar to make more jam, so I just put all the puree in jars in the freezer. (Fortunately, my parents cleared out some space in there during their visit in January.) There are still more loquats on the tree. I don't know what I will do when they are ripe. And my tree is just a baby (compared to others in the neighborhood). It's going to be rough keeping up with all the fruit when my tree gets bigger.
Note: 6 tablespoons of loquat jam mixed with a cup of homemade coconut yogurt makes an excellent lassi drink. Seriously delicious.
I made potato/cauliflower curry this past week, and I'm planning to make several pints of sweet pickled cauliflower tomorrow. I have more cauliflower in the garden ready to be harvested, so I'll use that to try the buffalo sauce idea, now that I've made a jar of hot sauce with my peppers. I've done multiple things with the asparagus, including a tofu scramble and a batch of beer-batter tempura. I'm thinking of using it as a pizza topping next. The chard is ready to start harvesting, as is the rhubarb and some early strawberries, so I will have plenty to keep me busy until cherry and blackberry season starts in a couple weeks.
Plums will be after that. Fortunately, they can easily be dehydrated.
I'm starting to get a few flowers on the volunteer passionfruit plants that I let grow to replace the one that died last year. I may have fruit from that this summer/fall. The grapes are also looking promising.
I still need to make wire cages for the strawberries. I've been putting off doing that in favor of finishing up knitting a sleeveless cotton top. I'm fortunate I have all this time off to tackle these tasks, but there's always more to be done.
Last time I made 8 cups of loquat jam. This weekend I picked four more bowls of loquats. After hours of chopping and removing seeds and 90 minutes of cranking the Victorio strainer, I was left with 8 PINTS of loquat puree. As our lockdown has been extended through May 31, I decided against using up all my sugar to make more jam, so I just put all the puree in jars in the freezer. (Fortunately, my parents cleared out some space in there during their visit in January.) There are still more loquats on the tree. I don't know what I will do when they are ripe. And my tree is just a baby (compared to others in the neighborhood). It's going to be rough keeping up with all the fruit when my tree gets bigger.
Note: 6 tablespoons of loquat jam mixed with a cup of homemade coconut yogurt makes an excellent lassi drink. Seriously delicious.
I made potato/cauliflower curry this past week, and I'm planning to make several pints of sweet pickled cauliflower tomorrow. I have more cauliflower in the garden ready to be harvested, so I'll use that to try the buffalo sauce idea, now that I've made a jar of hot sauce with my peppers. I've done multiple things with the asparagus, including a tofu scramble and a batch of beer-batter tempura. I'm thinking of using it as a pizza topping next. The chard is ready to start harvesting, as is the rhubarb and some early strawberries, so I will have plenty to keep me busy until cherry and blackberry season starts in a couple weeks.
Plums will be after that. Fortunately, they can easily be dehydrated.
I'm starting to get a few flowers on the volunteer passionfruit plants that I let grow to replace the one that died last year. I may have fruit from that this summer/fall. The grapes are also looking promising.
I still need to make wire cages for the strawberries. I've been putting off doing that in favor of finishing up knitting a sleeveless cotton top. I'm fortunate I have all this time off to tackle these tasks, but there's always more to be done.
