April Update

Its crazy how fast time passes you by, I can't believe it's already April. So what have I been up to?

Frost has officially passed (not that we really had any in San Diego) so I've been working on my summer garden. Before actually planting anything I needed to get the soil ready, which meant hours of digging, tilling, and adding compost to it. You let it sit for at least a week or two, keeping it moist, to allow the soil to settle.

If I wasn't outdoor working, I've been inside making marmalade. Ken D brought me a brown grocery bag brim full of sour tangerines and it took me two weekends to process them all. I end up making a batch of candied tangerine peels and candied dried sour tangerines the first weekend and tangerine marmalade last weekend.

I told myself that would be the last time I'd be making marmalade... then strawberry season arrived. The markets' flooded with sweet juicy red strawberry's right now. I went to the store for some milk yesterday and came home with 5lb of sugar and 18lbs of strawberries instead. Guess what I'm planning to make?

STRAWBERRY PRESERVES!