It looks like we’re near the end of our canning season. I still have pears in cold storage, waiting to be processed, but the tomatoes are done! Altogether, we’ve done applesauce, tomato sauce, tomato jam, crushed tomatoes and pear jam. I still plan on making pear sauce and/or pear butter. It’s not a complete winter’s [...]
Archive for October, 2010
Posted on October 25th, 2010 in Cycling, Sustainability
It rained yesterday and today, and yes, I rode my bike. I’ve written before about riding in the rain (see below), but I wanted to especially point out today that one doesn’t necessarily need special rain gear to bike in the rain. If you live in the desert, you may not even need rain gear. [...]
Posted on October 10th, 2010 in Sustainability, Technology
I’ve been hearing chatter about 10/10/10 for months now. People on the internet often take note of interesting dates like, well, 8/8/8, 9/9/9, 10/10/10. And 07/08/09, 08/09/10, etc. It’s cute, but not terribly important. But more and more people kept mentioning 10/10/10, and well ahead of time (usually you don’t hear about it until a [...]
The tomatoes. Sigh. Due to unseasonably cool weather, our garden didn’t produce enough tomatoes for canning, although we have had plenty to eat. So last weekend, I bought 40 pounds of tomatoes from a local farm store. And then I promptly became ill, so I didn’t get them all canned right away. Instead, I whittled [...]
Posted on October 02nd, 2010 in food, Sustainability
After picking apples with the Portland Fruit Tree Project, I had enough apples (19 pounds) to make seven quarts of applesauce. Applesauce is super easy, especially if you have a food mill. I followed the instructions at PickYourOwn.org (my canning bible, since I don’t have a Ball Blue Book). However, I had to make the [...]
