Day 740 Today’s Account or How to Become the Queen of Preserving?

23.30pm

The answer is very simple: preserve everything edible in your garden, that you are unable to consume when it ripens. I literally spent the whole day in the kitchen, trying to stock up as much food as I could for the winter season. There are no empty jars left and I am officially extremely tired, but the effort really worth it. My joy of preserving was born at a very early age and I am still eager so many years later to try new things.  Today’s account: 7 big jars of plum-pear-grape compote, 3 big jars of aubergine cream, 7 small jars of traditional Hungarian slow cooked plum jam and 7 jars of Serbian Ajvar. I have never made the latter, but got some from my god-mother and we loved it so much I had to make it. I am planning to freeze some plum for creamy plum soup, but only tomorrow. Today I am officially tired and don’t want to do anything else, except sleeping. And sweet creativity of preserving when the autumn pears ripe, here I come again J

Day 738-739 The Big Sorting

Drizzling rain at The House with The Garden and the long awaited moment of dream: light the fire in the wood burner. Maybe this evening. We’ve been doing bits of DIY, fixing the ancient kitchen cupboard, door handles and all sorts. After spending some precious moment at the DIY shop my heart was leaping from joy. I love DIY shops. We have three days to do a big autumn cleaning by the time the Big Vondores Strategic meeting will take place here. Sorting things out and throwing things away that hasn’t been used for months and years with the great expectation of it is going to be good for something in the future, is fading now. I need to be strong and ruthless with these objects and let them go.

Day 728-737 Autumn

Back at The House with The garden. We can still feel the lingering atmosphere of creativity in the air. The piano is quite, but the songs that been played and composed on it, has an untouchable memory in the walls, on the books upstairs the windowsills and the curtains. We had yet again a very busy few weeks, but hoping to slow down now as the summer ended. We have welcomed autumn, my favourite season and happily taking on the necessary jobs in and around the house.

Last week Vondores got some really valuable attention once again, that made us more than happy.