Food, Glorious Food

This year I canned like I've never canned before.  Carrots, fruit, tomatoes, beets, cucumbers....

 

I love to gaze at my canned goods shelves in the early evening just as the setting sun's rays come slanting through the basement window, illuminating the shimmering jars of preserves like so many jewels nestled into the deep of the cellar...

 

Fiew.

 

Calm down, it's just a sweet potata (name that commercial).

 

 

 

Still, it is thrilling to see all that food lined up.

 

I've got approximately:

 

1 bushel peaches

1 bushel pears

21 pints carrots, plus frozen

5 cups jalapenos

15 quarts apple pie filling

10 pints applesauce (150 lbs apples in all, more to be done)

5 quarts cucumbers

5 quarts pickled beets

8 pints beets

5 pints cream corn

10 pints tomatoe sauce

10 cups salsa

12 cups jam

6 pints pickled crab apples

 

lots and lots of freezer veggies

a freezer full of beef, fish and poultry

 

We're not going to starve after all.  We're going to be okay.