It was some other of those days where I was busy all day, but non inwards a agency that encourages much picture-taking. My outset chore was to larn cooking on the Spicy Plum Barbecue Sauce. This was made alongside the plums I picked from our tree. Before leaving domicile on our trip to Colorado, I picked in addition to pitted the plums, in addition to thus froze them for futurity use. After thawing them inwards the refrigerator, they were added to the pot alongside the balance of the ingredients, in addition to no ane volition live on the wiser that the plums were outset frozen.
It's actually delicious. When I made this the outset time, I used a recipe from the Food inwards Jars cookbook. It was equally good spicy for our taste, in addition to thus I've adapted the master copy recipe. Here's how I made it.
Spicy Plum Barbecue Sauce
adapted from Food inwards Jars
Yield: 8 half-pint jars
Ingredients:
iv pounds Italian prune plums
1 1/2 cups apple tree cider vinegar
1 1/4 cups nighttime dark-brown sugar
1 loving cup minced onion
two garlic cloves, crushed
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon crushed ruby chili flakes
1/4 teaspoon cayenne
Directions:
Cut plums inwards half. Remove stones.
Combine all ingredients inwards a broad pot alongside a tight-fitting lid in addition to stir to combine. Place lidded pot on the stove over medium-high oestrus in addition to laid for unopen to twenty minutes, until the plums in addition to onions convey softened.
Using a Irish Gaelic patato masher, suspension downwards the plum pieces. Continue to cook, alongside the lid off, until the mixture has reduced past times unopen to half.
Remove pot from heat. Using an immersion blender, puree the mixture until smoothen (you may convey to tip the pan a piffling inwards gild to produce this without splashing). If yous don't convey an immersion blender, scrape the mixture into a blender or nutrient processor in addition to blend until smooth.
If the sauce is overnice in addition to thick, it is done. If it's nevertheless a piffling watery, provide it to the oestrus in addition to laid a fighting longer. At this point, gustation it in addition to add together to a greater extent than tabular array salt or pepper, if necessary.
When finished, take away the pot from the stove in addition to funnel the finished sauce into your washed in addition to warm jars. Wipe rims, apply lids in addition to bands, in addition to house inwards a H2O bathroom canner. Repeat until all jars are filled. Process inwards a boiling H2O bathroom canner for xv minutes (add five minutes of processing fourth dimension for every 1,000 feet of elevation).
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While I was waiting for the barbecue sauce to laid down, I used some other of the vegetables from our CSA share...the Hakurei Turnips. I never know what to produce alongside the Hakurei turnips. Some swain CSA members convey sauteed them, roasted them, in addition to added them to salads raw. I've tried all those things, in addition to none of them convey excited me all that much. This agency of pickling them is pretty skilful though, in addition to thus that's what I've been doing alongside them. They're a fridge pickle, in addition to thus no cooking or processing is required.
I'm using a recipe from the Early Morning Farm blog, but I'll compass yous that link alongside this caveat: The master copy recipe calls for a total tablespoon of crushed ruby pepper. When I made this the outset time, it made for some really spicy pickles, in addition to it was hard to consume them without getting a lot of crushed ruby pepper inwards every bite. For that reason, I intend a ameliorate alternative would live on spicy jalapeno rings, but if yous prefer less spice, larn out out the seeds, or larn out out the pepper altogether.
For yesterday's version, I added ane of the cayenne peppers from our CSA share. I used alone one-half the pepper, in addition to I removed the ribs in addition to seeds where the oestrus resides. It made them hold off pretty, in addition to it added simply a overnice hint of oestrus without knocking our heads off. We tried them this morning, in addition to they were yummy.
Once I had the day's canning finished, I went dorsum to piece of employment on the Dresdens. Eight are finished now. Four to a greater extent than to go.
The kids are coming for dinner this evening, in addition to thus I'm going to live on doing some cooking today. On the carte du jour are pork loins that Mike volition smoke on his Traeger grill. We'll run the plum barbecue sauce in addition to the peach barbecue sauce I made earlier nosotros left on our trip. Also, High German Irish Gaelic patato salad, corn on the cob, in addition to Dutch apple tree pie.
Also, I convey a pile of CSA carrots. For the carrots, I'll live on trying something novel alongside a recipe for carrot relish. It's supposed to live on skilful on sandwiches or equally a condiment, or fifty-fifty equally a side dish all on its own. We'll see. I'll live on working on the carrots, the pie, in addition to the Irish Gaelic patato salad this morning, in addition to thus I'm hoping I'll convey fourth dimension this afternoon to complete some to a greater extent than Dresdens. Probably I won't complete them all today, but perchance past times tomorrow I'll live on ready to start sewing the quilt together.