Author Archives: Susan

Just as I’ve learned to use the second phase pulp to make crabapple sauce instead of squeezing it like crazy and making lots of more work for myself just for jelly, I’ve learned to use the excess juice if the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s funny, even at my age the school year affects me.  Once based upon the agriculture and seasonal harvest, the school year continues with its summer-free schedule.  I’m still looking for a class to take, even as I look for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Cool breezes come in, take the kitchen heat and the sweet scent of crabapple sauce and jelly back out the window, seducing the hummingbird at the windowbox feeder as home breathes in, breathes out.

Three couples, the six of us, some blushed red with heat, some flushed with white wine, a tangle of legs, appetites hungry, filling our needs with sweet meat and butter, not speaking but gasping with pleasure and after the frenzy, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tried to take a photo of myself this morning but this old woman just kept getting in the way…

Isn’t it pretty? Such a lucious foamy raspberry pink!  While I ran out for yeast–regular old Fleishman’s since the one I had here is too old and the wine order with the Montrachet won’t likely come in till next week–the … Continue reading →

The basic story follows the flowering buds turning into fruit, maturing, ripening despite the conflicts of drought, drenching rain, bugs, squirrels and birds and coming due to harvest.  At this point, the pears, peaches, crabapples and grapes will be transformed … Continue reading → Continue reading →