The Fruits (and Vegetables) of our Labors
This past Sunday was a red-letter day. Nate's family was up visiting for a family reunion, and Grandpa wanted a tour of our garden. What a surprise when we found this:
Our very first produce!
We also inherited a gigantic apricot tree when we bought our house. Last year we experimented in jam-making. We probably would've just done the same thing again if we didn't still have about 10 bottles of the stuff sitting on our pantry shelf. So we got adventurous, searched the earth and bought a dehydrator, and are drying the little guys as fast as we possibly can.
We try to pick them when they're not quite ripe to discourage the earwigs from burrowing.
Ripening on the windowsill. Then we wash them, cut them in half (and get all the gross parts off) and dip them in lemon juice.
Then we wait for a few days while they transform into:
the finished product. And man are they good!
Our very first produce!
We also inherited a gigantic apricot tree when we bought our house. Last year we experimented in jam-making. We probably would've just done the same thing again if we didn't still have about 10 bottles of the stuff sitting on our pantry shelf. So we got adventurous, searched the earth and bought a dehydrator, and are drying the little guys as fast as we possibly can.
The life cycle of a dehydrated apricot
We try to pick them when they're not quite ripe to discourage the earwigs from burrowing.
Ripening on the windowsill. Then we wash them, cut them in half (and get all the gross parts off) and dip them in lemon juice.
Then we wait for a few days while they transform into:
the finished product. And man are they good!
YUM! How exciting! I can't manage to get anythign to grow. You will need to share your wealth of knowledge with me someday!
ReplyDeleteYou but my domestic desire to shame :) Way to go on the produce!! Someday Curtis and I will live somewhere with a place to grow things :)
ReplyDeleteThat is so cool! You could make some awesome fruit leather in there too! You are truly a domestic goddess!
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