Apple turnover- from earlier blog. Apples from roadside cooked with sugar and cloves. rolled in puff pastry and sprinkled with cinamon. Beautiful

Hello world,

about to preserve peaches from a lady at work whom had a tree full. same process as before.

Wash and steralize jars using oven. Once the jars cool back down to room temp- then wash and prepare fruit. Put rubber on jar, then with Clingstone peaches cut them up in little slivers 8th's. Place fruit till jar is full. Fill with water Syrup ( sugar and water solution). Place clean lid on and put clip down over lid. Place into waterbath (if you have a fowlers kit, use it) bring to boil, then reduce heat and drain water. As jars cool, vacum will seal fruit inside for months and years.

sterlizing fowlers jars size 31

bag of clingstone peaches

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As it takes a while to get all your tomato's ready to cook with, as they tuen red I pop them in the freezer till I have enough. Then its simply bring them out and start cooking or what ever you choose to do.

This last batch is to be home made tomato sauce, I have also added some chillies as I like my sauce with a kick. This time I opted for a real recipe rather than the ezy sauce method. ( which is fine as well).

I added 3 chillies, I think they may have been habanero or something with a real kick, I ended up adding extra tomato's and also some bottled blood plums to give it some sugar and ease off the kick. It seemed to work.

Cooking all the ingrediants

sterilizing the bottles

Finished Product- Tomato sauce with a chillie Kick

GWH- Late Feb

its Feburary and when ever I drive anywhere I am almost craining my neck looking at laden fruit trees everywhere and blackberry bushes crying for someone to come along and rescue their berries.

I have bottled apples, as stewed and also as chopped. first things are to find the trees which are good enough to eat from the tree. This is rudamentory by stopping and tasting. mnay trees along the sale- heyfield road and from sale to stratford along the princes highway. I found a small tree near the morwell transfer station.
Preperation:  Sometimes they can be a bit tart or flowery, I put a little water in a pot and peel, decore and cut up the apple, add sme sugar and cloves in a tied up hankee or cloth. This will falvour and take away the tartness of the apples. Once cooked down to a pulp, I then preserve them using the fowlers vacola method. That way you can have pureed apple for pies, cakes or what ever you need apple for.

Below is a photo of some apple tuenovers I made from the apple puree- each 1 is half sheet puff pastry and apple puree. sprinkle cinamon over the top and freeze- instant puddings.

I have also been busy cooking down tomato and preserving them mostly in old tomatoe puree jars. after putting the puree in them, they go through a water bath ( fowlers method) then you have tomato puree anytime you need it for pasta, pizza, soups, lasagna etc

Below is Chicken cassarole made with Chicken from home, from the vegie garden corn, garlic, onion, potatoe, beans. the only things not was not my own was some pieapple and a packet of 2 chicken noodle soup- This will feed us 4 for a few days -cost next to nothing really.

Enjoy

Next time will be discussing more preserving methods and whats happening i the garden and surrounds

 G'day World,

Please join me for a look at collecting foods from the wild. Its a story of collecting, preserving and eating food from the wilds of gippsland. Please join me in living a lifestyle where most of the food that we can grow or collect ourselves will be enough to make our bellies full and our wallets fatter!. Its not just about growing food but what we can do with it!

This is corn grown at my fathers property near Sale, Victoria.

Ash