The girls are up to 5 eggs today so only 3 more have to start laying. I guess our talk a week ago got through to them lol. My lavender jelly did actually set up! I'm so proud of myself, I actually got jelly to work. I had it on toast this morning (homemade wheat bread) and it tasted so good. DH got out the papaya salsa last night and really liked it. He ate 1/2 pint of it. ;)
We got our dehydrator the other day. It's an Excaliber. Cant wait to try it. You can even do yogurt in it. Need to try that out. I was going to buy a yogurt maker but if I can use the dehydrator that will not only save me money but also space in my kitchen.
I started our first batch of kombucha today. Will have to let you know how it turns out.
It's all good!
Denise
I dehydrated some cranberries I had in the freezer. This is before they went into the dehydrator. They are realllly realllly good on yogurt :)
And these are the wild violets I gathered from my front lawn for some violet jelly. I would have shown you what the jelly looked like but it did not turn a pretty color. I think I had too much lemon and not enough flowers. It was kind of a honey color, not ugly just not a pretty purply-pink color. It does however taste great. Hubby loved it. Now I need to hide it from him cause we have to use up the old stuff before we use this and I want to give some away for gifts too. I'll have to try it again some time. If you want to try it next year, just Google violet jelly. There are a lot of recipes out there on the web.
