It's midsummer and it's cherry picking time! We picked almost 18 pounds of cherries, sweet and sour, this week at Don Baker Farm, just outside Hudson, NY. The next few days were a flurry of cherries: freezing the sour ones, canning some sweet ones, dehydrating, pie-making, and (of course) eating. I'm itching to go cherry picking again now that I'm back in Brooklyn, and I might have to trek out to Long Island to do it, but I suspect it will be worth it. The pie was unbelievably good: 2/3 sour cherries to 1/3 sweet with a 2/3 butter 1/3 shortening crust. Between K, the kids, and me, the pie was gone in about 3 days.
The preserving fever is now officially upon me -- I'm planning my weeks around picking, canning, freezing, baking, jamming etc etc. I lie in bed thinking about new things to can, and can't wait until tomato season. I found a terrific recipe for roasted tomato and chipotle salsa in the Ball book of preserving (the best preserving book EVER!!!), which I'm very excited to make.
I finished L's impossible intarsia sweater and blocked it and G's school sweater (which ended up very oddly proportioned with immensely wide and long sleeves) and I'm now working on K's sweater with hand-dyed wool from Flying Fingers. It's a pleasure to work with -- soft, slips off the needle -- but it's fairly fine and I'm having to use size 4 needles, so it's taking a while. Already thinking about my next knitting project....
Sunday, July 8, 2007
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