Pickling and preserving

Today we went to red apple farm in Wrentham,I had never been and wanted to check it out.I bought a 1/2 bushel of pickling cukes for 6.00 and a 1/2 bushel of apricots for 12.95. I know I am going to make bread and butter pickles and relish. Not sure what I will do with the fruit yet.

a local meal in the winter

Last night we had a couple also interested in eating local over for dinner. We had a beef brisket from Simmons farm in RI. We had mashed potato,maple glazed carrots homemade bread,salad(spinach,micro greens,sprouts,radish,tomato,cucumber) apple crisp with homemade ice cream. Everything was local to New England except for cucumber,condiments and flour. We had great conversations on many food related items, and I think we all learned a few things we had not heard of before. We have been out of the habit of having company over for dinner but will be trying to do more of it in the future.