last night we canned our first passionfruit!!! first we cut the fruits in half. then we scooped out the saucey insides into a bowl.
we are saving the shells. evidently, there’s pectin in the rinds and if you soak the shells over night in water, you can peel the skin off easily and use the rinds [...]
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the passion fruit are starting to drop off the vine by the dozens. it’s literally sprinkling passionfruits over here! it’s great but we need to start canning them before they go bad. we started our long and arduous task of looking for mason jars. and we finally found them! who’d thunk that it would be [...]
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it’s the beginning of passionfruit season! this is the first year that we’ve gotten any fruit. with the last weeks’ heat, tons of them have ripened and are now falling off the vine. soon we’re going to have to break out our canning gear!
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it’s starting to get hot around here. for some (the cats), salvation comes by being under or half under something.
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hi! so, i’ve decided to start a blog! i’m want to share with whoever wants to know what i’m doing and what other people are doing that i like.
so, i guess i’ll just jump right in!
this last saturday, july 11th, some friends of mine and i went to the renegade craft fair in [...]
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