I had some home-canned fruit juices sitting in my pantry and some juices I made last fall from our grapes and apples
sitting in the freezer. I was struck by another one of my creative moods.
The forecast called for snow all day so I decided it was a good day to can!
The results were delicious!
Not pictured spiced grape-apple-raspberry jelly.
I have started to clean out the chest freezer at our old house. I brought over some corn and a few
chickens. One, a rooster that had to go. And the second a big old brute from 2012 that has been
waiting to get turned into something.
I roasted the rooster for dinner and the leftovers are now barbecue chicken and stock.
One of Libby’s chickens that has been languishing in the chest freezer for a few years.
The birds weren’t good for roasting because they were so big and tough. They are much more
suitable for soup and chicken salad. I took out my huge stock pot, put in the bird, added an onion,
some garlic, celery and a carrot, filled it with water and let it cook all day. After this bird cooked I
picked the meat off, bagged and put it in the freezer. As for the stock I let that cool before I bagged
and threw that in the freezer. When I was done I ate the cooked carrots at the bottom and put the rest
of the spent ingredients into the garbage bowl to be thrown to the chickens-the live ones.
Ugh! Winter, go home! ...a little while later...
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