I spent the whole time we were travelling to and from Canberra worrying about a few things. One of those things was what I had done to my precious, precious apricot jam. Was it salvagable? Had I made more apricot paste? (I still have a jar of apricot paste from when I overprocessed it last … Continue reading
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See How My Garden Grows: January 2014
For this post I’m linking up with the Garden Share Collective. The Garden Share Collective is a group of bloggers who share their gardening journey, and whose blogs I’ve had great fun reading! I shall be posting some links to the blogs I’ve discovered so far tomorrow for you all to enjoy. In the meantime, here’s … Continue reading
{Storing the Harvest} DIY Apriot Jam
Technically this post should probably be called DIY Burnt Apricot Jam, because I’m pretty sure that’s what I did. But since I want to focus on the positives, we’ll pretend like it didn’t happen. About two days ago Nick announced that we should head to Canberra this week. We were going to head up at some … Continue reading
{Storing the Harvest} DIY Dried Apricots
Since I discovered that I had a bunch of apricots that desperately needed to be used I decided to use the more bruised ones to make diced dried apricots. (I also plan to bake some oat and apricot biscuits with these during the week – stay tuned!). I started off with this pile of apricots … Continue reading
{Storing the Harvest} Apricots
I’ve been engaged in an on-going battle with the birds for the past week in an attempt to ensure that I actually get to use some of the apricots on my tree. To do this, I have been going out daily and picking as many apricots as I can reach (and look close to ripe) … Continue reading
