{"id":1283,"date":"2011-08-03T17:20:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T23:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stormysweitzer.com\/recipes\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2016-04-23T19:50:05","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T01:50:05","slug":"a-weekends-worth-of-canning-farmers-market-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stormysweitzer.com\/recipes\/a-weekends-worth-of-canning-farmers-market-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"A Weekend\u2019s Worth of Canning Farmer\u2019s Market Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a state holiday here in Utah a week and a half ago that gave us a three-day weekend.\u00a0 I thought I would go to our local farmer\u2019s market to pick up some sweet cherries \u2013 in season, and one of my absolute favorite fruits \u2013 and find some corn for a barbecue we were planning.\u00a0 But, when I actually got to the farmer\u2019s market, I was dazzled by the beauty of what I saw, and starting buying up everything in site.<\/p>\n

\"Lacto-fermented
Lacto-fermented radish pickles with garlic and peppercorns<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Who can resist a $1 bunch of radishes \u2013 gorgeously pink and fresh looking, striking purple cabbage, dainty white carrots that are offered at a discount when you buy rhubarb, or pickling cucumbers just an inch and a half long \u2013 can cukes be adorable?\u00a0 And, of course, there were was Chinese spinach, Swiss chard, and the Brazilian tapioca bread that had to be tasted.\u00a0 The crazy thing is, I don\u2019t typically eat most of these things.\u00a0 Greens, yes, but radishes and rhubarb?\u00a0 N-e-v-e-r!<\/p>\n

Towards the end of my stroll through the market, bags weighing heavily with 13 ears of corn and about 20 pounds of other finds, I came upon a farmer from my home town of Willard.\u00a0 He was selling tart pie cherries \u2013 dried, as syrup, and as pie filling \u2013 and nostalgia hit.\u00a0 I grew up along Utah\u2019s Famous (not sure with whom) Fruit Highway and spent my summer\u2019s eating fresh fruit off the trees.\u00a0 My mom would can Bing cherries and we would eat pies all winter long.\u00a0 To this day, cherry pie is my absolute favorite.\u00a0 But, without those homegrown cherries, home-made filling, or flaky gluten crust, pies just haven\u2019t tasted the same since.<\/p>\n

Tasting the dried cherries inspired me to do some canning.\u00a0 I spent the rest of the morning poring through new blogs and old canning books from my parents, hunting down jars, pickling salt, sugar, and a variety of other fruit, vegetables, and interesting roots like turmeric and ginger, and figuring out a plan.\u00a0 I spent the rest of the weekend chopping, stirring, fermenting, sun-drying, brining, boiling, and generally heating up the kitchen on already-hot July days.\u00a0 But, it was worth it.<\/p>\n

Rather than a recipe, I thought I would share some photos of what I produced during my temporary madness.<\/p>\n

\"Mixing
Mixing the sauerkraut ingredients – kale, cabbage, carrots…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Purple
Purple sauerkraut after fermenting for a week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"cherries \"sweet \"water<\/p>\n

\"cherry-mango-grapefruit-jam\"
Cherry mango grapefruit jam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Apricot
Apricot and rhubarb jams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Apricot
Apricot and raspberry fruit leather dried in the sun just the way my dad used to make it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brining
Brining zucchini spears before pickling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Brining
Brining pickling cukes in a salt bath<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dill
Dill garlic pickles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Delicate
Delicate white carrots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Curried
Curried white carrots with turmeric and ginger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Candied
Candied grapefruit peels and ginger<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The
The whole lot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had a state holiday here in Utah a week and a half ago that gave us a three-day weekend.\u00a0 I thought I would go to our local farmer\u2019s market to pick up some sweet cherries \u2013 in season, and one of my absolute favorite fruits \u2013 and find some corn for a barbecue we… <\/p>\n

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