2 posts tagged “food”
Thanksgiving this year was smaller than usual, but a lot more work due to my mom and I deciding to cook almost everything from scratch. Woo hoo! It was fun and tasty. We tried to make everything from local and organic whenever possible. Our menu included:
- Heritage local organic bird (I don't eat meat, but the rest of my family does) - 29 1/2 lbs.
- Wild rice stuffed acorn squash
- Cranberry ginger relish (I had no idea it was so easy!)
- Creamy pumpkin penne
- Mushroom stuffing from scratch
Yum! My mom and I made homemade apple butter this weekend from apples we picked in our orchard. We slow cooked them using a very cool and super easy recipe. The apple butter turned out amazing! One note, though, we almost totally blew it on the whole canning thing. Dude. Botulism. Bad. So, I have to say that we were pretty pleased with ourselves when the apple butter turned out beautifully and the canning process went smoothly and safely. It's one thing to talk about all the things you want to do, it's another thing altogether to actually do it.
Here is some helpful info on canning fruit:
