Every year we try to better our gardening skills. This year we have had great success with the tomato crop. I love having the kids take ownership of their garden.
In preparation for canning day Tanner and I went out and picked only the red ones, that took a little explaining. last weekend I canned the veggies, while the girls and Tanner had a Nascar date with dad. Spaghetti sauce, salsa and applesauce were completed by the time they got home.
The girls were excited to do jam. We decided on peach and pear, and away we went.
Everyone had a job to do and they could see that we had an order to this chaos, each job had to be done before we went on to the next.
I took care of the water bath duties, the girls did pretty much everything else. They were fascinated with pectin.
They did a great job of stirring constantly! They are so much fun to cook with.
Torie tried to get creative and she kept thinking of what we could add to "spice it up" She was reminded how important following the recipe was.
All that was left from here was pop pop pop!
A little hard work and alot of love turns the fruit into jam, quote from Tara!
In all we did 12 peach and 12 pear, and then we all had toast!
Every year we try to better our gardening skills. This year we have had great success with the tomato crop. I love having the kids take ownership of their garden.
In preparation for canning day Tanner and I went out and picked only the red ones, that took a little explaining. last weekend I canned the veggies, while the girls and Tanner had a Nascar date with dad. Spaghetti sauce, salsa and applesauce were completed by the time they got home.
The girls were excited to do jam. We decided on peach and pear, and away we went.
Everyone had a job to do and they could see that we had an order to this chaos, each job had to be done before we went on to the next.
I took care of the water bath duties, the girls did pretty much everything else. They were fascinated with pectin.
They did a great job of stirring constantly! They are so much fun to cook with.
Torie tried to get creative and she kept thinking of what we could add to "spice it up" She was reminded how important following the recipe was.
All that was left from here was pop pop pop!
A little hard work and alot of love turns the fruit into jam, quote from Tara!
In all we did 12 peach and 12 pear, and then we all had toast!
2 comments:
I love it!
I love hearing the "pop, pop, pop".
Great job.
Good job you guys!! You are doing a great job, Tracy!
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