Thinking out loud

The bread had a butt.... That's ok though, because the pizza had plenty of heart.

I am doing this post because something unfortunate has happened. DD made these carrots a week ago and they are supposed to sit for two weeks, so we tried them after one. Then tragedy struck, she doesn't like them. But, she doesn't like carrots anyway. So, I'm the one who gets to write this one up. The recipe is from The New Preserves, so we've hit two from the same book now. Sweet Pickled Carrots 1 pound carrots 1/4 cup water   3/4 cup cider vinegar 1/2 cup sugar 1 tablespoon canning salt 3/4 teaspoon mustard seed 3/4 teaspoon celery seed 6 whole cloves 1 stick cinnamon Combine water, vinegar salt and sugar in pan and bring to a boil . Boil  to a boil. In each sterilized jar add 1/4 t mustard seed, 1/4 t celery seed and 2 cloves.  Break the cinnamon stick in three pieces and put one in each jar. Divide the carrots between the jars. Add vinegar mixture leaving 1/2 inch head space, seal and process for 10 minutes. I love them, ...

t's carrot week and I will be posting on Wednesday so we can taste before I post so keep a look out!  I tried a recipe that needs to sit for two weeks, we are going to jump the gun by a week but that should at least give us an idea if it is good! Now to the task at hand - we had some cranberries I found on clearance.  Woodman LOVES cranberries so I started looking for something a little creative to do with them.  Another wait and see so I will have to post again in two months to let you know how it turned out but the jars were beautiful and we did have a little with some on some bread last night and it was pretty darn good - could use some time to mellow.  Here is the recipe: Cranberry Chutney 1 lb cranberries 1lb apples peeled, cored and cut into pieces 1oz ginger peeled and grated zest of one orange 1/2 cinnamon stick pinch of ground cloves 2 cups sugar 1 1/3 cups of cider or white wine vinegar (I used cider) Put everything into a saucepan on low unt...

Ok, my wife has stated several times that she needs to post, and there is a story she needs to post. I have decided to take the weight of this off of her shoulders and post here what happened. When we were making our marmalade for the can jam in January DD had also wanted to make wine jelly. We had a couple half bottles of red wine and she thought it would be cool to try to make this interesting sounding jelly. Boiling, and preparing and canning later she sets the jars to the side to set. The next day we are checking how the marmalade set and it's all a little loose, and the wine jelly is a thing syrup. We decide that we can reboil it all and get the set right. The next weekend is the next time we have time to mess with this. DD hands me the jars and tells me to pour them all out into one container. I fill that container pretty quick and she gives me another. Then she looks at me and wonders how I filled a two quart jug and a quart jar with 6 pints of jelly. There was a sne...