Life's a Peach

Maria asked me the other night if I wanted some peaches from their backyard. I said sure- I could jar them up. So we went over there today and got about 40 pounds of peaches.

Megan, Mike and I washed, peeled, lemoned, jarred, syruped and then pressure cooked for 10 minutes at 10lb pressure the peaches. The kitchen was hot. The sad thing is that it took 2 1/2 hours (or 7 man, woman , child hours) to jar them and it will take 10 minutes each quart to eat them. (If that long.)

Look at that melon

Nothing better to come home to a huge watermelon on your door step. We belong to a CSA, community supported agriculture, and a couple of us trade off going to pick up the produce. Yesterday was Margie's day. I wasn't home so she left it on the porch.

We found Monroe Organic Farms from a friend of a friend. We buy a share of their farm and weekly throughout June, July, August, September and a week or two into October we receive the harvest. Yesterday's bounty was 6 anaheim peppers, 40pieces of corn, 8 different types of squash, 2 watermelon, 2 muskmelon, 12 tomatillos, 5 vine ripened tomatoes, 6 onions, 4 garlic, tons of beets (yuck) and some eggplant. I made a tomatillo chicken dish for lunch for tomorrow, so the flavors can meld before I serve it on rice.