End of the Day. ... Start of a New Week

This is most of the fruits of my labor today.  Not quite all as several things I had already put in the refrigerator to be ready for the week.  Three containers of chopped lettuce to be ready for salads for my lunches this week.  The container of celery that came in my baskets is cut into sticks ready to be spread with peanut butter for snacks during the day.  A couple of the onions are chopped waiting both salad use and other meals during the week. 

The things that you can see here however are:

 Nine jars of Pasta Sauce using the zucchini, a couple of the yellow squash, some of the onions, mushrooms, celery, the basil, oregano, thyme, and rosemary that came in this weeks basket. We also added some of the rainbow carrots left from a previous add on.   The tomato sauce came from the tomatoes that a friend gave to me that were getting a little mushy so sauce just seemed right.  yes I will share with her as well if she wants some. 

This picture contains Whats For Dinner, tomorrow night.. well partly at least.  The yellow squash is going to get battered and fried, the onion chopped to be added to the ingredients in the container.  Those ingredients are shredded zucchini, shredded carrot, chopped mushrooms all to be added with the onion when I chop it up.  Those things will then be mixed in with the hamburger and ground turkey that will make the meatloaf for dinner tomorrow night.  Some of the chopped lettuce and other things that are currently in the refrigerator will make the salad that will top off the main course tomorrow night. 

 

I pitted and sliced one bag of the add on cherry box that I got and decided that dessert needed to be a cobbler!!!   This shows half of that first bag of cherries and I decided to try a patriotic theme and threw in some of the blueberries that I had left from the last basket I got as well.  I have so far resisted "tasting" it. 

 

YYYUUUMMM YYYYUUUUMMMM I hope.  This is one of the easiest recipes in the world as far as I am concerned and I would be happy to share it with anyone who wanted it.

 

And last but not least.  I tried One lone test jar of Canned Cherries.  I kind of put together two different recipes as I am looking for a particular memory. 

Once a very long time ago I remember that my Grandmother and Mother canned cherries.  To me they were absolutely "heaven on earth" when we used them as a topping over my Mothers special home made ice cream.  They never made them again and no one completely remembers them except for me.  I am almost there.. I need to tweak a couple of the ingredients and keep trying but I am almost there......

 

So tomorrow night, it will be the ears of corn, and pitting more of the cherries to can the rest for later use.  Cherry pie, Cherry cobbler,  Cherry ice cream topping, and maybe just out of the jar with a spoon.  

Then, it will be time for some more mango salsa as I am down to just 2 jars of that. 

 

I have decided that if there is a Kitchen Fairy out there anywhere who delivers presents to good little cooks, I would wish upon a star for a food processor, a new ninja, and new canning equipment.  I used to have a lot, but over the years things have gone missing or I decided I didn't need them anymore so I let them go.. but I think, I am going to be doing this for years to come. 

Someone has to keep lost arts alive, right? 

But now, its time for lights out, everyone have a wonderful night, sleep well and join me for my next adventure.

 

Today is Bountiful Basket Day!!!!

This time I ordered 2 regular baskets, 2 Italian themed add ons and a box of cherries.  I cannot wait to get home this afternoon and start deciding what I am doing with it all.  My family is hoping for home made pasta sauce being canned for the next couple of months. 

I remember a time as a child that my grandmother canned cherries that were locally grown in the mountains near here.  I was very young but it is one of my fondest summer memories of my mothers home made ice cream.  We used those cherries to pour over the ice cream.  I have no earthly idea how she made them but I think I am planning to maybe try to hopefully figure out something close to the way she did it. 

So watch for updates. 
 UPDATE NUMBER ONE>   This is a combination of things that came in the Italian add ons and and things I already had in the fridge from past shopping trips and onions from the last basket.  Add to it a bunch of tomatoes that a friend gave me.  They were a little mushy in places so I turned them in to the tomato sauce that will be the base of this round of pasta sauce.  They are cooked and cooling over night now so I am going to hit the bed early and get up early to add to it before church tomorrow.