Today, I've turned 2.5 kilos of cherries into jam, using this recipe. I'm yet to see if it will set - I think it will. I cooked it for far longer than recommended, convinced it wouldn't set each time I was ready with jars...I'm a jam beginner. On the dream wish gift list now? A thermometer!
This cooking frenzy was brought on by a buying frenzy yesterday at the markets. We picked up a box of toms for 5 bucks, and the 5 kilos of cherries was 6. Sadly, I might have got most of the 5k out of the box if I'd done this yesterday. The compost is happy and dripping red.
There's about 800gms of cherries left. I might make muffins. Or jelly - I'm keen to try that out, now that I know about gelatin. And I'm not scared of hand-pitting the last of them. Not now.
Two kilos of toms became roasted tomato puree, using this recipe. I'll slip that into some freezer bags soon. It tastes good - better than the old eye-tie/aussie boil up. I might finish the rest of the box that way. Most of it will be a donation to Pasta Night.
Also got a fist full of basil from the markets for a buck. That's become pesto for Pasta Night, using pine nuts, brazil nuts and almonds that got a quick and dirty dry roast beforehand - so dirty, in fact, that I burnt a few. Pesto still tastes grand though!
What did you cook this Sunday?
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A fortune cookie quote
"There is no such thing as a little garlic."
General kitchen quote
"Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers" by William Shakespeare
Food is like, totally, like 10 goods on the good-o-meter. And when it's really good - it's 11.
I loves yous guys. Now give me food!
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I reheated Friday's gratin for lunch (at work). All afternoon I've smelt like garlic and pototo's though - it's starting to wear a bit thin.
I had to have a shower - I smelled like cherry pesto. Too weird for words.
Mmmm gratin...
Hey man, its 1am! I haven't cooked _anything_ yet this Sunday!
hahahahahaha... it's the same recipe I used for Xmas pressies. it rocks. much more tart and tasty than usual cherry jam, and keeps its colour better.
Ha!
Yay for pesto. I will have to start harvesting our basils a few leaves at a time to keep the pesto supply going.
Food excitement for sunday was home grown beans with dinner. Tonight was beans and home grown roast beetroot with dinner. Yay for garden stuff.
we've just finished the last of the pesto I made in January. put it in a plastic bottle or some tupperware and it freezes a treat. we thawed it then put it into glass and made sure it was always resealed with EVOO.
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