Potatoes & Jam

Ok so I didn’t actually eat potatoes and jam. But I just feel So satisfied when I eat things from my garden and things that I canned this summer.

This morning I opened a jar of blueberry jam that I canned last summer. I canned more than I ever have before and it is so satisfying to enjoy the fruits of my labor. I think canning makes me appreciate all of the beautiful foods that god has provided us. It just makes me feel so appreciative of the ease of getting food compared to what people before us had to do. We are reading the little house in the big woods and I just think about how hard they worked to be able to have food during the cold months. How preserving food was something they HAD to do vs how it’s a really fun hobby for me.

I also ate some of the potatoes I harvested in December! I probably should have pulled them out earlier but they seemed fine. I had pulled some potatoes out earlier like in late October and noticed that they all turned green on my counter. My friend told me that I should store them in a dark place for two weeks to cure. Anyway so they have been sitting in the back of my pantry in a bag. I tried them today with some sausage for breakfast and they were good! I'm getting excited to plant more potatoes this summer.