a busy week full of deliciousness

its been busy busy busy here, but in a good way. so many tasty treats, as autumn approaches, the harvest is starting to roll in. but first, i helped a good friend make some beer. his beer, it is very good. when we finished the initial brewing, he sent me home with some spent grain. i mixed it into a batch of bread. it turned out great (though it did need a bit of extra baking). it was doubly good with the applebutter that was made from that huge pile of apples gleaned the other week.

then there were the plums. now, our summer was short and dry, so the normal plums that i was looking to pick were small and puny. but next to those plums was a big tree with what looked like rainer cherries on it... i tried one to see if it was ripe... ! they were tiny plums! so cute, so tasty. we picked as much as we could, there was much standing on shoulder and climbing done that day. after we got those bad boys home, they were pitted and made in to a very yummy plum jam. there's still a grip in the fridge too. i gotta figure out what to do with them....
the canning went well into the night. and started up the next morning, with me finally getting around to taking care of the huge bag of string beans and wax beans that had been sitting in the fridge, waiting for attention. this is good news, the pantry is beginning to fill right up, and the asian pears aren't even ripe yet :)