Practicing to be Mr. Universe???

Sometimes dinner seems more like a training session...

Weekend Project

After reading about it, talking to friends about it, pondering it, and even taking a (mostly worthless) class, I finally jumped into the world of canning. Over the past year and a half I have become more and more convinced of the merits of eating locally, so preserving some of the summer harvest for myself seemed like a natural step in that direction.

So Friday morning Austin and I drove out to Yarnick's (one of our local farms) and bought a half bushel of tomatoes and a half bushel of Italian sweet peppers, plus some onions and jalapenos. Austin conveniently took a three hour nap (I asked Zach to pray specifically for that), the entirety of which I spent in the kitchen. And when he woke up, simple vegetables had been transformed into beautiful, tasty salsa.

Canning is kind of addictive, as it turns out. I keep grabbing my Ball Blue Book and looking for more things I can make. So many possibilities!