The season of gathering in of all the good stuff in the land is in full swing in my house. It is my favourite season when nature puts on her best show and I try hard to capture every flavour. This past week some of nature’s bounty decorated my kitchen with tomato splatter, peach juice, and flour.
It all started with a bushel of roma tomatoes.
Which were cooked and strained, chopped or juiced.
The end result was 23 x 500ml jars of passata, 7 x 500ml of chopped tomatoes, 3 litres of juices…
…and one tomato-tinged apron.
Then peaches slipped their skins and slid into pies and freezer containers.
And the very next day, the flour and yeast joined up with oregano, basil, rosemary, and garlic along with some of that fresh tomato juice to make tomato bread and rolls.
The fall colours, though just beginning, hint that a spectacular show is coming soon. I think all of us here need something delightful to decorate our lives. Even in this year strained and ground down by CoVID-19, the harvest is bountiful and I’m going to try to capture, savour, and preserve every bit of it.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
Douglas William Jerrold 1803-1857
©2020 April Hoeller
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