This last week we were able to get peaches from Camille & Steve! We had to figure out something to do with 2 5 gallon buckets full of peaches. So we decided to try our hands at canning them. Kyler was much more excited about it than I was. He canned a lot more than I did. When I grew up canning was the worst chore. My mom canned almost anything and we were put to work. We had to have planned days to get all of my siblings and I outside to shuck corn, or days that we had to sit in our kitchen and pluck grapes and pick tomatoes. I never looked forward to canning season-- until after it was over of course and then I was glad. But like I said, Kyler was super excited (I love being married to someone who gets so excited to cook) :) We canned quite a few jars of peach jam and made about 28 jars of regular peaches. We also got a bit creative and made a peach pie- all by ourselves. Definitely a lot of work, but I'm glad we canned!
Here's Kyler "dotting" our pie with butter... Whatever that means...
I think we did a pretty good job!
We went to Kyler's parents on Sunday and we all brought a peach dessert. Camille made a cookie kind of crust out of macaroons and coconut and topped it off with peaches. Michele made a peach pie that you put into a graham cracker crust and top with sweetened condensed milk. We loved dessert that night!!
