crabapples and progress
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hypatia42Allergies seem to keep getting worse despite everything I'm throwing at them. Time to get back to acupuncture.
After I managed to make myself human around noon, I went apple picking with EE and the tot. I now know that I wan to have a Siberian crabapple and a Dolgo crabapple tree. I got some gingergolds for the honey and then realized as I got home that he won't be here to eat them. I also got a few Vikings because the smell was so amazing. I'm hoping I can can some apple pie filling and convince my mom to use that instead of the HFCS canned in who knows where stuff she usually uses. Baby steps.
I continue the fight to get the girl to eat more. Lost ounces are not good for her.
The Honey promised me that today will be the last day of heat in MN. I dislike promises like this given their inability to be kept but I find myself clinging to this one. Don't wanna shut the house up and turn the a/c on. And so I sit in the 85 degrees heat of my second floor apartment.
What did I choose to do in the 85 degree heat? Can tomatoes... Doh! They had to be dealt with or they were going to go bad. Can't have that. I tried a different method of processing them. I think it will garner me more end product. Sometimes following the recipe is not the best way to get something done.
Thinking of food processing and stuffs, I need a way to deal with these crabapples so I can make stuff with them too. I'm thinking juicer to make cyser. There may be other ways to make juice tho. Need to research. I know heating up apple releases pectin so can't do it the way that Carol did grapes cause pectin is no good for mead and wine in general.
I will probably dehydrate the gingergolds. Feeling the need to get into the swing of that again. My dehydrated apples never last long enough.
After I managed to make myself human around noon, I went apple picking with EE and the tot. I now know that I wan to have a Siberian crabapple and a Dolgo crabapple tree. I got some gingergolds for the honey and then realized as I got home that he won't be here to eat them. I also got a few Vikings because the smell was so amazing. I'm hoping I can can some apple pie filling and convince my mom to use that instead of the HFCS canned in who knows where stuff she usually uses. Baby steps.
I continue the fight to get the girl to eat more. Lost ounces are not good for her.
The Honey promised me that today will be the last day of heat in MN. I dislike promises like this given their inability to be kept but I find myself clinging to this one. Don't wanna shut the house up and turn the a/c on. And so I sit in the 85 degrees heat of my second floor apartment.
What did I choose to do in the 85 degree heat? Can tomatoes... Doh! They had to be dealt with or they were going to go bad. Can't have that. I tried a different method of processing them. I think it will garner me more end product. Sometimes following the recipe is not the best way to get something done.
Thinking of food processing and stuffs, I need a way to deal with these crabapples so I can make stuff with them too. I'm thinking juicer to make cyser. There may be other ways to make juice tho. Need to research. I know heating up apple releases pectin so can't do it the way that Carol did grapes cause pectin is no good for mead and wine in general.
I will probably dehydrate the gingergolds. Feeling the need to get into the swing of that again. My dehydrated apples never last long enough.