When life hands you smashed up peaches and all your burners are in use for canning, its time to make Peach – vanilla – honey jam on the BBQ. As mentioned in last week’s post about our peach canning odyssey, I am never ever peeling another peach. All pealing peaches does is take perfect lovely […]
How to Can a Bushel of Peaches in 7 hours with Some Swearing, a New Pot and 29 Jars
As mentioned in last week’s peach lemonade post and in our #canning play by play on twitter, we spent most of last Tuesday turning 1 bushel of gorgeous, perfect, marvellous Red Haven Ontario peaches from BizjakFarms into 29 jars of assorted canning goodness. I feel like this post is a little late as once […]
Peach Lemonade For Alanna {or When Peaches & Lemons Combine}
So we spent 7 hours on Tuesday turning 1 bushel of gorgeous, perfect, marvellous Red Haven Ontario peaches from Bizjak Farms into 29 jars of pure canning goodness. Then the thirst struck, quickly followed by one of those brief moments of genius, pure peach genius. What you want to do is take Monday’s Real […]
How to make Real Lemonade. From Scratch.
Sometimes you really need lemonade. Very very badly with what we like to call the thirst of a thousand deserts. Good thing its really easy to make. First you need a simple syrup. Combine: 1/2 cup sugar (we like the white organic stuff that comes in a carton) 1/2 cup of boiling water (out of […]
Zucchini Time! Grilled Fish en Papillot (in Parchment) with Herbs and Zucchini
It’s Zucchini Time. You know, the time of year when gardens explode with zucchinis and you find them on your doorstep or passed over garden fences. I actually don’t grow zucchini in my personal garden as there seem to be enough people in my life that will share with me. Last weekend we visited the […]