I have had this one pear tree on the side of my garden for about 10-12 years. We usually shared the pears with the animals and bees because of the skin of pears, it had black spots, sometimes super dry skin, the fruits are small, so totally not good looking pears—totally different then my other pear tree. But animals...
Tomato juice, using the last tomatoes from the garden
Tomato juice, around 8-10l, pour in the big pot, add salt, to your taste, around 1/4 cup or less, sugar 2/4 cup, bay leaves, black peppercorns, 1tsp, 6 garlic cloves, smashed. Boil for 15 min, pour to the clean jars.
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Made some juices this week, apple juice, pear juice and 12 l mix of apples and pears. Just used the juicer, poured to the big pot, boiled for 10 min, added some sugar and picked a foam.
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Smoked (smoked paprika and smoked liquid) pasta sauce with vegetables, this year garden produced a lot of everything! And this is my last canning with vegetables this year :)
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Colorful corn and corn smut, also known as Mexican truffle, cuitlacoche. We tried it at Tepoztlan, when we had our cooking classes there, it was tasty! The unique, earthy taste has been part of local cuisine since Aztec times. They would use the corn and the attached fungus in tamales and stews. Huitlacoche has a very pungent earthy, sweet...
11 kg of my favorite plums went to jam. I cooked it for 2 days but it was worth it, no pectin, not too much sugar and was so delicious! Perfect recipe!(more…)...
Sweet Smokey Zucchini Salsa, easy recipe, amazing flavors and smells so delicious! I’m sure I’ll make it again in a couple of weeks! Great idea to use my all zucchini and tomatoes from the garden, I have a lot this summer.
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