autumn
so far autumn has meant more blankets, wearing more brown, drinking whiskey and apple cider, fires in the backyard to keep warm in the evenings, lorosi smelling cold, listening to celebration and beirut again, paying closer attention to daily political news, potentially major (and for the moment very exciting) life changes, and.... CANNING!

this is the first year i've had a garden with enough food to can for the winter (mostly thanks to philip's hard work). we still have a few tomato filled canning days to come. a few weeks ago we made tomato sauce, two types of ketchup, salsa, two loaves of bread, basil garlic paste to freeze and butternut squash soup (because we had about 12 squashes before some insects killed the plant). we only canned the sauce, ketchup and soup.




on thursday as i was headed downtown i stopped by the infamous persimmon tree and there were loads of smushed persimmons on the concrete. i found a few that weren't flat and also collected a few handfuls from the tree. when i got home i cleaned them and left them to dry.



later on i put them in a mesh sieve, smashing them with a wooden spoon.



i was kind of worn out after pushing all the pulp through (and i was a bit anxious to sit down and watch the VP debate) so i put the pulp in jars for the night.



yesterday i made cookies.



edit:::woah, some things never change.