Although we’ve now been canning, mostly successfully, for a few years, this year we’ve been taking on bigger projects. First those pesky peaches and now 3 bushels of blasted tomatoes. We shot this great time lapse video of our twelve hour day that certainly demonstrates the busy-ness but there’s much it is not showing. Here […]
Twelve Hours of Tomatoes in Two Minutes
This video is meant to be part of a much larger post about our adventures in canning tomatoes but that will just have to come later in the week as Ryan and I are just too excited to share this. Here is a time lapse that Ryan and […]
project365: week thirty five September 3rd, 2011 – September 9th, 2011
September 3rd, 2011 Picking up bushels of Tomatoes from Highmark farms at the farmers market. September 4th, 2011 Rebecca talking to the fish on the green roof and community garden of the Acadia Co-op in Toronto. September 5th, 2011 Labour Day was spent labouring / experimenting with the cider press. September 6th, 2011 Rebecca and […]
Wordless Wednesday: What the Heck is This Tomato?
These lovely tomatoes grew in a friend’s garden… and nobody knows what they are. Here’s one ripened up. Here it is for scale. Here’s the inside, about to go on a burger. Lots of seeds, quite strong skin, perfectly symmetrical from the middle line. Delicious too. Any idea what it could be?
Smashed BBQ Peach Jam
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 […]