Otherwise known as "kitchen work - review." I did not get everything accomplished on Tuesday that I had hoped, but I did get a good enough start on all but the bread pudding to finish up yesterday ... and still have time to crash out for a nap in the afternoon. Both marmalades are finished and water-bathed. The orange marmalade was my first time doing up a marmalade of any kind, and it's a bit thin because I took it off the heat just a couple minutes too soon. The grapefruit marmalade is the perfect gel consistency, and it has that distinctive grapefruit tang/bitterness to it that may just be the perfect glaze for grilled meats. Oh, I am now officially out of half-pint jars again.
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| grapefruit marmalade ready to be water bathed |
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| orange marmalade in the water bath |
No pics of the ketchup or barbecue sauce, as I have done a post on those previously. I also did up the flour tortillas.
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| cooking the flour tortillas |
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| kneaded flour tortilla dough resting before rolling out |
My neighbor Maria gave us the grapefruits and oranges. I'm pretty sure she said her sister has the trees, and had a good crop again this year. This is really getting me excited for when our citrus trees finally start producing! I have orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, and sweet kumquat trees out there still growing.
Now, time for a different sort of chore today: slaughtering the three cockerels.
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