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Planning to get as follows from Desert Hills in Ashcroft:

Poblano - 1 box like tomatoes and eggplants come in ($40)
Green jalapeno - 1 box like tomatoes and eggplants come in ($20)
Roma tomato - 3 cases ($16 ea = $50)
Eggplant - 1 case ($10)
Pickling cucumbers - 1 case ($40)
Carrots - 20lb bag ($10)
Red onions - 20lb bag ($10)
Cantaloupe melons 3 large or 4 small ($4)
Garlic 2lbs ($4)

=$190

If it won't fit in the car, remove:
1 case tomatoes
Pickling cucumbers

The goal is to make a bunch of things that can:
1) go on no-cook charcuterie plates (marinaded eggplant, peppers, mixed jalapeno-carrot pickles, sauerkraut, cucumber pickles)
2) pretty close to open-and-serve or open-put-on-pasta-serve (ranchero sauce, pasta sauce, eggplant puttanesca)
3) Hot peppers to go with every meal (pickled jalapenos)
4) Assuage my curiosity (cantaloupe jam, apple ketchup)
5) Tomatoes as a staple
5) Jars of something I can throw in the instant pot with a chunk of meat

Planning to make:
Canned:
Marinated peppers (nchfp site) from a mix of anchos and jalapenos
Pickled eggplant (healthy canning site, recorded here)
Pickled mixed jalapenos and carrots (zesty pickle brine)
Eggplant puttanesca (healthy canning site, recorded here)
Ranchero salsa (healthy canning site)
Pasta sauce (Homemade Italian sausage, tomatoes, pressure canned)
Tomato sauce (tomatoes, acidified and cooked down)
Cantaloupe jam
Zesty pickles (my old recipe recorded here)
Chicken wing sauce
Cajun sauce?

Fermented:
Jalapenos and carrots
Jalapenos
Cucumber pickles

Plus, from home stuff later in the month:
Apple ketchup
Apple rhubarb sauce
Fermented sauerkraut with jalapenos
Canned potatoes (maybe lemon-oregano or with jalapenos)

Already made this year
Pizza sauce
Veggie pasta sauce
Tons of apple sauce (I can dehydrate it and make fruit leather! It's free from my tree) including flavoured apple sauce
Candied jalapenos (delicious but a little too hot for everyday hot peppering, great for making pork jerky or in instant potted meats)
Chicken stock
Pork stock
Canned chicken
Grape jam
Spruce rhubarb orange marmalade
Rose rhubarb orange marmalade
Lemon curd
Asian plum sauce
Tomato jam (replaces ketchup, I don't like homemade ketchup normally)
Turnip pickles
Peach BBQ sauce
Rhubarb caramel sauce
Candied rhubarb (canned)
Sweet ciciley syrup and candied seeds
Pickled spruce tips
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That ended up less amicable than expected, but I guess that much food is still a relatively benign sacrifice. I'm living on my own now, which means-- more time to make things. And I (thank goodness) don't look like I need to move my canned goods yet.

Even so, I think aside from a bunch of apple/pear sauce and a few more rounds of pickled eggs, putting things in jars might be over for the year.

That might mean it's time to start brewing. I helped with a batch of pumpkin beer last weekend (pretty good date activity, to be honest). I'm feeling much more confident in the beermaking process having walked through the steps.

It's kousa dogwood time, and then soon rowan berry time. I think both of those might make interesting ferments. I have a stupendously huge bucket of honey waiting to make mead (rowan mead?!)

I also (think I still?) have access to large amounts of frozen unpasteurized apple cider/juice. I've learned about graff ( http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f81/graff-malty-slightly-hopped-cider-117117/ ) which seems pretty delightful even if it was created based on a Stephen King book. There are a bunch of different ways to do it, and of course I'm interested in the sweeter end of those, or the sour ones.

I haven't been out scouting too many alleys lately, which is sad. Apples are falling all over the place; we had a huge storm on the weekend and I bet that brought a ton more down. It's just a matter of permission or stealth to get 'em home.

Apparently there's a cider press festival in Vancouver, which might be an interesting way to both network with cider-press folks and to get a little more apple juice. Looks fun, anyhow. http://www.villagevancouver.ca/events/frog-hollow-press-fest

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