One of my favourite chores at the end of the growing season, once the hectic pace of harvesting and preserving is over, is to take stock of what we've got on our pantry shelves and create a tally of our preserves for the year. This summer was quite the challenge, balancing looking after our new girl Kate with the work of the harvest. Dave, of course, did most of the work. I won't go into totals, but here are lists of what we put together last summer and this summer.
2009 Preserves Tally
- Spiced sweet cherries - great with pork
- Cherry pie filling
- Cherry conserve
- Cherry juice - this was fabulous
- Tomatillo salsa verde
- Tomato & pepper salsa
- Pickled carrots
- Pickled dilled cucumbers
- Dilled green beans
- Preserved baby figs
- Orchard fruit chili sauce
- Pears in juice
- Pear ginger conserve - another fabulous preserve
- Spiced pickled pears - weird but good with meat
- Blackberry juice
- Blackberry pear juice blend
- Apples in blackberry juice
- Lime & ginger tomatillo marmalade
- Apple pie filling
- Tomatillo/Green tomato mincemeat
- Grape juice
- Cranberry salsa - a fantastic condiment with poultry, especially on leftover sandwiches with mayo
- Cranberry juice
- Hot pepper jam - quite a bit like sweet Thai chili sauce, and an essential condiment with pot stickers
- Chicken stock
- Fruit vinegar - another essential condiment with pot stickers
No cherries this year; really unfortunate year for cherries, sigh.
- Dilled green beans
- Pickled dilled cucumbers
- Apple blackberry juice
- Blackberry juice
- Raspberry juice - check out the Basil Sorbet using raspberry juice, yumm
- Cucumber relish - we used our overabundance of cucumbers and golden zucchinis, as well as our unripe Ruffle peppers for this fabulous relish. I highly recommend this recipe!
- Tomato & pepper salsa
- Tomatillo salsa
- Orchard fruit chili sauce
- Ginger pear conserve
- Tomatillo ginger & tangerine marmalade - even better than with lime!
- Green tomato mincemeat
- Hot pepper jam
- Honey plums
- Basil raspberry syrup - was supposed to be jelly, but didn't gel. Makes great syrup for pancakes!
- Chicken stock
- Venison stock
- Venison chili
- Fruit vinegar
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