I'm getting my tree time, dammit.

[kyburg]

I'm heading for the hills tomorrow. Seriously. I have an aunt in town, the grand-nephew is playing football at a time we can actually be there to see it - and there's raspberries at Snow-Line (let alone some damn fine apples).

I'm going to Oak Glen tomorrow AM. I'll be making stuff on Sunday at the house is anyone wants some apple action. I may make some fresh apple pie or kuchen, definitely applesauce for canning...and if there are enough raspberries, some jam and other good things. (We'll see what the availability is. I love 'jam-style' two-crust raspberry pie. It's a personal failing of mine.)

That means cleaning out the refrigerator and freezer. Anything that can't be used or frozen quickly? Or has sat at the bottom of the bin in the freezer over a year? OUTTA HERE.

I'm a huge food packrat - I grew up hungry, blame that. I always have stuff lying around not being eaten.

Why look, I'm buying apples directly from the orchard to - put up and store for the winter!

I R DORK.

Comments

[eve-dallas.livejournal.com]

If you are, so am I. Growing up the oldest of nine and then becoming the mother of five, I learned to cook in big batches. No matter how I try to cook for just my daughter and myself now, we still end up eating leftovers for a day - or four.

My family all lives in the Pacific Northwest and mom put up fruits and vegetables until about ten years ago. She used to do something special with some of the pears she put up: before she sealed the mason jars, she would put cinnamon hearts in half a dozen jars and spearmint leaves in another half dozen. Every once in awhile, one of us would go down to the pantry and turn the jars to evenly distribute the flavors. At Christmas, she would put one of each of the pears on a salad plate for each of us on top of lettuce leaves and a scoop of cottage cheese.

Oh, did you say APPLES?!

[muimi07.livejournal.com]

I was reading the SF Chronicle earlier this week and came across this really yummy looking Polish apple cake recipe. :D

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Drools after fresh fruit. Wish I could get away to pick apples. :)

Have fun this weekend.

[violet-tigress1.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, pie *drool*

Been there..

[n6vfp.livejournal.com]

I was there last Sunday, the Gravensteins are peaking, (good sauce apple) and the rasberry patch was full of people picking. I may do some dehydrating of my apples tomorrow. I can sometimes get some good granny smiths locally at about 50 cents a pound by the box, organic. I don't know how the drought impacted the local crop (in Anza) but I'll keep an eye out for any upick places. You'll have fun. Maybe I need to pick rasberries....

[drlaurac.livejournal.com]

I miss Oak Glen!!!