These past few weeks have been all about change. Summer weather has just started to hit, schools out and for some its vacation time. For me, change comes in the form of a new and exciting job! Only a week in, I am still wrestling with a new schedule and environment, but am so excited to settle into this new phase of life. Its too hot to say more, but with this new job comes more afternoon time so I hope to hope post more regularly. For now, I am off to eat a light summer salad (as seen above). Hope this summer has exciting new adventures in store for you all!
Today I picked apricots with Ellen of the^workshop. Hopefully they will make their way into jam by this evening. Ellen was a better harvester than myself, but we both wound up in the upper branches, reaching for that last bunch.
So peach preserves this time. Strawberry jam had a 50% success rate, but we decided to try it again, this time with peaches! The key is letting the fruit mixture cook to the "jell point," which was not mentioned in our Strawberry jam recipe, hence 3 jars good jam and 3 jars strawberry syrup!
