10.50PM. Near delirious. Smiling. I have really neglected to say how thankful we are for all of the encouragement and support we`ve had from people in the last few weeks. Friends, strangers, new friends, old strangers and those near and far have offered hands, cheers, comments, emails and tweets. I hope it sounds genuinely humble [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Still preserving for 1,000 people – 4 days to go
Posted in Special Series, We`ve Attended on September 30, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Preserving for 1,000 – day 5
Posted in Special Series, We`ve Attended on September 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We’re in the homestretch. We’ve been preserving for 5 days now and there’s 5 days to go before the picnic. Of course work and life are also keeping us busy (a disappointing soccer game for our TFC tonight) but we’re living an extreme balance and making it all work for a week. I’m writing this [...]
Preserving Continues
Posted in Special Series, We`ve Attended on September 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We had planned to get back to our Autumn preserving posts but based on comments, emails and conversation with others, it appears that there is still interest in updates on our preserving for 1,000. It’s getting trickier. I am out of the house for almost 12 hours for work. If food gets too dry in [...]
48 hours of preserving…and counting
Posted in Special Series, We`ve Attended on September 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
We’re continuingto get ready for the Brickworks Picnic next weekend. A huge pile of the work is done though there will be some early mornings to fill the dehydrator for the day ahead – and of course there is the matter of this Friday night when 4 of us take on 1,600 crackers but we’ll [...]
Preserving for 1,000 (continued)
Posted in Special Series, We`ve Attended on September 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It`s almost 1 AM. I wrote out last post 24 hours ago – at that time we had a dehydrator full of 18 pounds of tomatoes and a lot of hope. 24 hours later we have 262 dehydrated tomato halves. a dehydrator with some of the thicker product from yesterday and 7 trays of fresh [...]
More than we can chew?
Posted in Special Series, We`ve Attended on September 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Today was supposed to be a continuation of our Preserving Autumn series. It`s just the way it works – we post an article and then demonstrate recipes from it for the next 8 or 9 days. Except this time I`m changing the rules. We`ll be back to regular scheduled programming in by Tuesday at the [...]
Preserving Autumn – Cabbage and Making Sauerkraut
Posted in Fermenting (Non-Alcoholic), tagged wellpreservededibleautumn on September 24, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Many of us start preserving with commercial pectin, following recipes that we think are easy and, for the most part, are. I remember thinking that fermentation, pressure cooking and dehydrating were far too complex and I would eventually learn how to do them. The truth is the `more advanced` preserving techniques are often the easiest. [...]
Preserving Autumn – Preserving Pears
Posted in Canning (Waterbath), tagged wellpreservededibleautumn on September 23, 2010 | 9 Comments »
Pears are, to me, the anti-asparagus. One is short, plump, has a heavy skin and soften when it ages. The other is lean, long and gets `woody`as it matures. But that`s not what makes them each others antithesis to me. One ushers in my second-favourite season of year (Spring) and the other brings my favourite [...]
Preserving Autumn – Pickled Beets (though not what you may expect)
Posted in Canning (Waterbath), tagged wellpreservededibleautumn on September 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
For those who don’t know – Dana represents all things graphic here and I do a lot of the writing and cooking. Neither of us are particularly thrilled about our writing styles (I am a much more articulate speaker) but that’s been half the fun of writing for the last few years. But the fact [...]
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