{"id":5027,"date":"2013-09-03T23:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T05:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5027"},"modified":"2015-10-25T17:33:50","modified_gmt":"2015-10-25T23:33:50","slug":"summer-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=5027","title":{"rendered":"Summer Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

Hi everyone, I’m back to blogging after taking the month of August off.\u00a0\u00a0How is your summer going?\u00a0 Keith and I have\u00a0been keeping\u00a0ourselves pretty busy.\u00a0 We’ve done a lot\u00a0of kayaking, bonfires with friends, went sailing for the first time,\u00a0drove\u00a0out west,\u00a0had a\u00a0kimchi<\/a> party; We’ve enjoyed meals\u00a0in the open air\u00a0as often as\u00a0possible, attended the\u00a0American Cheese Society Festival,\u00a0spent some time\u00a0in the\u00a0garden and more.<\/p>\n

The kitchen is looking pretty sweet right now with the season’s bounty.\u00a0\u00a0There is a curtain of herbs drying\u00a0in front of the east-facing window which will be mixed to create a Buttonhill\u00a0House blend for the winter.\u00a0 I’ve got a huge bowl of tomatoes to make sauce with tomorrow and another\u00a0bowl of Harrow’s Delight and Asian pears from one of my favorite people.\u00a0 (Check out this month’s issue of Voice of the River Valley <\/a>for my article about Mike Manogue.)\u00a0 Atop a three-tiered server sits some\u00a0garlic, onions, and purple potatoes.\u00a0 The other day while hiking up on Merry Christmas Mine Hill<\/a>, I found several wild plum trees heavy with ripened fruit!\u00a0 I picked some and made a couple of jars of plum and\u00a0pear jelly to add to my collection of preserves.\u00a0 I present to you my spring\/summer collection: strawberry-basil jam, raspberry-violet syrup, raspberry-basil-apple jelly, peach-chestnut jam, peach basil jam, roasted butter gooseberry jam<\/a>\u00a0(which I wrote about on High Street Beat<\/a>), and the latest, plum-pear jelly.\u00a0 In the next month, I will be making some apple preserves as well as a lot of Concord grape jelly (per Keith’s request since I only left him one jar the last time I made it).\u00a0 I hope my friends will be happy with their holiday gifts!<\/p>\n

Happiness<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hi everyone, I’m back to blogging after taking the month of August off.\u00a0\u00a0How is your summer going?\u00a0 Keith and I have\u00a0been keeping\u00a0ourselves pretty busy.\u00a0 We’ve done a lot\u00a0of kayaking, bonfires with friends, went sailing for the first time,\u00a0drove\u00a0out west,\u00a0had a\u00a0kimchi party; We’ve enjoyed meals\u00a0in the open air\u00a0as often as\u00a0possible, attended the\u00a0American Cheese Society Festival,\u00a0spent some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,25,13],"tags":[607,478,608,609],"class_list":["post-5027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-driftless-area-towns","category-garden","category-home-cooking","tag-jam","tag-merry-christmas-mine-hill","tag-preserves","tag-summer","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5027"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5803,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5027\/revisions\/5803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}