Preserve the Harvest

2022

Pickled Asparagus — 7 10-oz jars
After a very warm (hot!) spring, we've had some cooler and wetter weather settle in. It's mid-May and the Asparagus is just coming in.

Stewed Rhubarb — 6 pints
This is new and another attempt to recreate on of Grandma's recipes. Our rhubarb was moved this year and is slow to grow. These came from our friends at King Orchards

Strawberry Preserves — 5 half-pints
One of our favs and just in time. We have almost completed last years batch. We are goimg to get more berries to make some pie so we will probably make more preserves them.

Plums — 7 pints
Missed the regular plums and had to use Golden Large yellow plums. However, they are still delicious. Canned in pints instead of quarts, just to see... We got our plums from a new source, Royal Farms

Spiced Plums — 5 pints
We really like these but haven't tried it with the Golden Large. We'll have to see if there is any difference in the end product.

Bread & Butter Pickles — 5 pints
We got a nice batch of cucumbers from Bolts Farm . We made the B&B pickles chunky this year, we'll see how they turn out!

Dill Pickles — 7 pints
Standard dill pickles, nothin' special. We grew ourselves. I tried these just halved rather than speared, not sure if it will take a little longer or not. Can't stop experimenting.

Apricots — 8 quarts
Picked these up at Royal Farms when we got the plums. Apricots are sooo easy to can.

Tomatoes — 38 quarts
Our favorite guy, Joe at LakeView Nursery , is back after surgery, doing well and looking good. We picked up 75 pounds of Roma tomatoes from him and canned them crushed.

Disaster!!
First, something went terribly wrong with our tomato canning and we had to throw out all 38 quarts that we had put up at the end of August! They went bad one by one and it was just depressing as could be.

Second, we got Covid. Ugh... After being as careful as we could throughout the plague, a brief (less than two minute) meeting with the daughter of a friend who had passed away, we got it. Ugh. (They don't believe in masks or vaccines or anything).

Red Plums — 5 pints
Some nice late season red plums from King Orchards! We thought we were well out of the fruit season, but no.

Pickled Red Onion — 3 pints
Love these. Got the onions from Altonen's and pickled them right up. Feeling better after the tomato/covid disaster!

Tomatoes — 21 quarts
After the canning disaster, we decided to just freeze this batch. We needed to get them done and move on. Again, from our friend Joe Coleman.

Cauliflower Soup — 5 quarts
Following our plan of smaller quantities of larger varieties we only did 5 quarts of this. Altonen's had sweet red peppers super inexpensive. Man they were good. The cauliflower came from there as well. We love this soup in the middle of winter. Bake up a fresh loaf of bread, mmmm, delicious.

Carrot-Fennel Soup — 3 quarts
We haven't made this in a couple of seasons. It's a filling soup with a delicate flavor. Not strongly carroty or fennely (??).