Summer Fun

The sour cherries are in:

I love them for eating out of hand, aside from the obvious choices of numerous dessert recipes.  Last night we had a grilled pork loin with garlic and rosemary served with a wonderful sour cherry and rosemary sauce.   Mmm Good.  I do love summer.

I started a batch of cherry vinegar.  It will be a couple of weeks before it is done.  The first batch, oh so many years ago, was a fluke, something I made accidentally when something else (I don’t remember what) went wrong.  Now cherry vinegar is a necessity.  The pantry seems bare without it.

I have also been freezing blueberries all week:

We’ve been gulping them down by the handful as well.

All this fruit is making me long for the preserving kettle and endless batches of jam.  I love blueberry jam and blueberry conserve, sour cherry preserves.  There is little point.  G loves his morning toast but can pass on the jam and I’m not eating the toast or pastry right now.  Even if I create a gluten-free bread that I love, I doubt I would eat that much bread and jam, my habits have changed so significantly.  Still I miss the process of making jam.

Perhaps I will indulge in a little whole fruit preserving:  blueberry pickles and brandied cherries anyone?

And not to worry, I have been playing in my sewing room as well, not jut the kitchen. 

I finally got the embroidery unit out and attached it to the sewing machine.   It has been a long time since I used it; last summer, and I have forgotten much.  It had been stored in the guest room when I redid the sewing room and there it had remained, abandoned, waiting for me to remember its presence.  I set it up and started playing.  It is nice to be able to leave it without having to move everything to work at my desk.   

Although I am having a lot of fun with it so far, I have not produced anything I wish to share.