Yesterday was a blend of good– Weavers Guild home study group meeting, Jen Hoffman’s awesome Office Spa Day, and a new delicious kale recipe– and bad– reading the election results in the morning for Ohio and Maine, feeling sad about Ohio handing over control of our food supply to big agribusiness, handing over huge amounts of our tax dollars to casino owners, and just generally flummoxed about some people’s desire to try to control other people’s private lives. Sad.
Today: more canning. Andy got green tomatoes and peppers from our CSA last night, and I’m going to try making some green tomato chutney. It’s a two-day recipe, so I’ll start it today and then keep going on the applesauce, and I’ll finish the chutney tomorrow.
We revised our applesauce goal up this morning from 40 quarts to 52. I’ve done 17 quarts so far, so I’m one third of the way there. I had hoped to start today at the halfway mark, so that’s a bit of a bummer, but I have dear Simon Winchester and his lovely British accent keeping me company as I listen to A Crack in the Edge of the World. God bless the unabridged read-by-the-author audiobook.
I had a very cool moment a couple weeks ago. I started listening to this book and mentioned it on Twitter, and Simon Winchester @ messaged me and followed me. Quite a thrill for me, I confess. I find it amazing that the famous author and the anonymous fan can so easily connect, however superficially and briefly, thanks to the power of technology. And that he would take the time to reach out, wow, that’s just cool.
This morning, fueling up for the day’s labors, I had some of the carmelized onion relish on a bagel with cream cheese. I had been skeptical about it when it went into the jars, but it came out well. A nice little zing of flavor for a savory breakfast. Almost enough to keep me energized for the 4 or 5 more days of canning I’ve got ahead of me.
I know I’m choosing to spend the time, and I’m enjoying it, but I think I’m at the point in the middle where the initial novelty is gone and the homestretch euphoria has yet to kick in. Otherwise known as the slog. Feel free to send encouragement my way, and I hope y’all are all feeling less sloggy than me today.
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