So, yesterday I posted about my purple fingers and making cherry preserves and peach preserves.

Here are the peach preserves:

Well, some of them. I was amazed at how many jars of preserves. But then I remembered most of them were the little half-jelly jars and that's eight pounds of peaches. Yes. Eight. It's a lot of peaches.

Today I finished canning the cherries:


I also wound up with two cruets filled with cherry ... well... I guess you could call it cherry syrup. I don't know what to do with them, but I think Casey has plans. Yummy, tasty plans. I'm looking forward to the results!

Then I started on the flat of strawberries mama_grainne picked up for me yesterday. A flat is 8 pints of strawberries, or 4 quarts, or 1 gallon. I should have taken a photo of the flat. Dear God! That's a lot of strawberries! Seven of the pints were made into jam:


Yeah... jam isn't so pretty when it's cooking. But when it's finished... oh, what a lovely sight!


By the time I was finished, it was dinner time. So I made myself a lovely salad ... with strawberries of course!

(It also had slivered almonds and blue cheese crumbles. Yummy!)

And at the end of the day, here's what's left... enough for breakfast and maybe lunch tomorrow. Which is good because Casey doesn't like strawberries (and even if he did, I'm hoarding these for myself. They're too tasty after a winter and spring of tasteless, "imported" strawberries.)