This Week In My Kitchen :: Blog Hop

Capturing my love of whole foods, combined with the activity of a bustling kitchen.

A weekly collection of photos from the center of my home. 

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top to bottom: peach-ginger fruit leather {base recipe}, cherries, peaches, borage flowers, purple peas make blue water, strawberries + rhubarb, herb infused water {here}, summer salad, peach mostarda making, drying herbs, fruit leather making, peach-cardamom jam (freezer jam with low sugar/only honey). 

Last weekend we zipped to a local farmstand which gets fruit in season directly from farmers all around the upper midwest (and beyond) and sells it in season. We picked up 25# of peaches. But of course immediately went out of town to Iowa to visit my (recently  discovered!) sister and her family on Sunday/Monday. On Tuesday it was cool, windy, and raining, which was perfect for catching up a bit in the garden as the mosquitoes were mostly in hiding. So that left yesterday which was also CSA day. I spent the morning making some jam, mostarda, fruit leather, and a soda syrup base (cherries, strawberries, peaches). I am halfway through the case of peaches, and chutney, freezing, and dehydrating peaches is still on my list. 

The nice thing about the cooler weather we had earlier this week is that we could roast vegetables, make soup, and run the dehydrator on the higher fruit leather temps without overheating the house. Everything has been going full blast until it heats back up in the next few days. I will surely make a few more rounds of fruit leather before it is too hot. We have more strawberries from our CSA, so I think a strawberry/peach/vanilla leather might be next. 

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