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Re: Peppers and peaches
From: gmshirley@suddenlink.net (George Shirley)
On 9/7/2010 9:22 PM, gloria.p wrote:
Dear daughter and I made the annual trek to a garden center (with a
large Hispanic customer base) to buy roasted chiles for the freezer.
They sell by the bushel. We bought Anaheims and Anchos and spent the
next 2 1/2 hours slipping off the skins,removing most of the seeds, and
dividing them into vacuum sealed bags, double bagged into larger
ziplocks so everything in the freezer doesn't taste like chiles.
I have never had a problem with one item contaminating other items through a vacuum sealed bag. What's up with that? Also I am envious that you can get roasted chiles locally. We can get fresh chiles and dried chiles but that's about it. When we moved here 22 years ago there were NO Hispanics in the area now there are tons. Maybe we will get a Mexican market sometime soon. I know the Mexican restaurants have multiplied ten-fold in the last two years, some good, some not.
We will
share with her brother, too. Both of my kids cook much "hotter" than I do.
I am looking forward to cooler weather for green chile, red chile,
soups, stews and roasts. Much of our cooking has been done on the gas
grill this summer because it has been SO HOT.
I take it you don't have air conditioning? We couldn't live here without it so I find it strange that everybody doesn't have it.
I also bought 20 lb. of small peaches which looked very ripe but
weren't. Dear Husband helped me blanch them to remove the skin for
freezing but even after extending the blanching and ice water bath
only about 4 of the fruit gave up the skins easily. They were not ripe
enough, making me glad I used a sugar and FruitFresh treatment. That
was disappointing because Colorado peaches can be wonderful when ripe.
That's typical for store bought fruit around here too.
I thought about peach jam but we have more jam in the basement pantry
than we can use in multiple lifetimes.
Think food bank. I gave a bunch to Abraham's Tent one year, they feed needy people. They actually brought me the jars and rings back one month later. Really nice people at these places.
My neighbor stopped by yesterday when we were working in the yard and
offered me ALL of her Concord grapes. What will I do with mine (the
ones the raccoons don't get?) Maybe juice. Sigh.
Well, you eat all you can, can all you can, and the coons get the rest. Does that make sense?
I thought I was done for the season. :-(
gloria p
There is no season in home preserving to my knowledge, when you gets it you cans it.
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