What Does Autumn Mean to You in the Kitchen?
For me, I start with flash freezing onions and green peppers since they are about the least expensive they'll be for the year. Dice, chop and mince the onions and some of the green peppers w/ my handy...
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Mainly I cook up about 5 gallons of spaghetti sauce w/meat for the freezer and 5 gallons w/o meat that I can for winter use. Also like to can apple pie filling, watermelon pickles, pickled baby corn and mountain pears if I can find them. If I score tomatoes, I freeze them and when I'm heating up a pot of spaghetti sauce, I'll throw in 2 or 3 whole ones - just seems to make the sauce taste richer. Need to pick up a new rubber ring for my pressure canner then I can put up potatoes. It's really handy to have canned potatoes on hand for soup, stew, or a myriad of breakfast dishes that call for them!
Then, it's time to winterize the houses.
Then, it's time to winterize the houses.
