In Season

One of the great things about living where I live is the fresh produce from farms literally right down the street.  It's awesome.  The sucky part is dealing with the allergies from the pollen but right now even though I can't breathe through my nose until my zyrtec kicks in, I am choosing to focus on the positive.

We hit a strawberry stand on Thursday.  My eyes were way bigger than my stomach which has been a problem for me.  As soon as I got out of the car, I could smell the warm strawberry scented air.  I just stood there and soaked it in for a minute.  When I got to the counter I had already made up my mind that I wanted a full flat.  Twelve baskets of farm fresh literally just picked from the farm strawberries.  Twelve baskets for three people.  As we were driving back home I realized that I bought to much.  Then I felt bad because I didn't want to waste all that goodness.

We had to stop by Osh on the way home to pick up a toilet flapper to fix the ghost toilet.  While we were at Osh I found the canning isle and decided that I could make jam!  I got really excited!  And then immediately really intimidated.  I skipped the canning process and went for freezer jam which is pretty easy to make and I don't have to worry about sanitizing and properly handling jars and boiling and all of that.  What I should have picked up was Pectin.  Since I have never made jam before I didn't realize I needed it.  So in the end I got a thick strawberry sauce/spread.  Which is still very tasty.  

Hull the berries and put them in a pan.  Mash.  I added an apple for natural Pectin and some honey for sweetness.  I cooked until the apple was mush then I hit it with a stick blender.  I added another basket of mushed strawberries back to the mix for some chunkies.

Once it was cooled I added it to the washed freezer jars.

I still had six baskets left.

So I whipped up some cream and we went outside after dinner.  

I've got three baskets left...what else can I do with them?

Floppy Bunnies

Time is forever messing with me.  Some days seen to go by really slowly and then some weeks fly by without any notice.  I have to remind myself to enjoy the moment.  I have a tendency to bumble bee around and every now and then I have to tell myself to stop and smell the flowers.

I wanted to do something fun last night and yummy!  A few weeks ago a friend suggested that we do Peepsmores.  Uhm..yes!

So we gathered our ingredients...

I went with fun size hershey's and they were perfect.

Poor bunnies don't know what's coming to them.

Yummy!

We had originally planned to have a fire but it was pretty warm last night since it was supposed to rain today.  I say supposed because it's actually very sunny outside.  Since we opted for no fire I just roasted the Peeps over the bbq grill.  As my daughter would say it was easy peasy.  She was pretty happy that she got to stay up late and have smores with all the grown ups.  She even somehow weaseled 3/4's of one from Daddy.  Who told me they were "sharing".