Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label apples. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Change of (Beverage) Seasons

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It’s been a few years since we last broke out the old cider press. This is the same machine my family used to press apples when I was a litt...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Preserving Log (Late Summer 2020)

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I’ve been on an absolute tear in the kitchen the last two weeks. Late August/early September is the middle harvest season (Mabon is coming r...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Apple-anch, 2018

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It’s apple season again, which means I’m too busy to write about it. These lovely specimens were part of a farm glean courtesy of the Glean...
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Preserving Log 9/18

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Arrived home from Oaxaca ten days ago. In that time we had a lot to do to get the kids ready for school- go shopping for supplies and clothe...
Monday, October 16, 2017

Brewing Notes (Cider and Wine)

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Mainly just notes for myself so I don't forget when I did what. Today I racked the rhubarb wine into a clean carboy. It's been about...
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Saturday, September 23, 2017

Happy Apple Cider Day (Neighbors to the Rescue)

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A close up of the gear mechanism of the apple press. The girls and I had pressed about three gallons of cider today, and were only about a t...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Is There Anything as Good as Apple Cider?

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Oops, that's a picture of bowls full of cherries. When I selected the thumbprint, I thought it was buckets of apples. Oh well - do...
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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Life as a Microbe (The End of the Food-Chain)

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It is a maxim of ecology that "wherever there is something to eat, there will be something to eat it." At least I think it is: I ...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Brewing Up a Storm (Drinking and Driving)

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My first batch of hard cider came out great! I can't take all the credit - or even most of it - or, in fact, hardly any of it at all. I ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Good News, Bad News

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I'm sad, because my pastor is moving across the country to be some other church's pastor. Pastor L. and her husband J. are friends ...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

Bad Year For Apples

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Every fall since we moved up here, I've put out an ad looking for apples to make cider. I inherited a lovely old motorized, double barre...
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010

I'm Not Ready!

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I'm not ready for apple season! Driving around the county, I see it's definitely starting to be that time of year - everywhere I loo...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Expanding Orchard

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Trees of Antiquity is a fantastic nursery that specializes in heirloom fruit trees. After drooling for several days over their online catal...
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Monday, November 16, 2009

Homebrewers Make Good!

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Hooray! Several weeks ago, a couple of college age homebrewin' boys came to press apples with me. Even though I have burned in the past ...
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Sunday, October 18, 2009

Apples Kicked my Ass

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After the girl scouts went home, a lovely older couple from Lynden showed up with a full barrel (or more) of Russet apples off their antiqu...
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Sunday, September 27, 2009

Apple Madness

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More people came over to cider yesterday afternoon. They were a very sweet couple originally from New York with six or seven big tote bags f...
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Monday, September 21, 2009

Cidering Party

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What a great day I had yesterday. Two of my friends came over with their husbands, kids, and boxes of apples and pears to make cider. I mad...
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Monday, September 14, 2009

Applemania

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Pressed fifteen gallons of cider yesterday. A guy came with a pickup truck half full of gorgeous honeycrisps. I only kept four gallons, beca...
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Friday, September 11, 2009

My Favorite Time of the Year

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Apple cider time. We pressed our first batch of cider yesterday, and as usual, it kicked my butt. My knees and hips and ankles ache like mur...
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Pear Problem Solved, and Cidering in the Rain

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Well, that took all of three minutes.  I should have done my google search before I wrote the last post and revealed myself as a fruit ignor...