Millions of peaches, peaches for me

Anyone who is anyone knows it's CANNING SEASON in Utah!
I don't know why, but for some reason I love the idea of canning. The whole process just makes me feel cozy and safe and at home with people I love basking in the goodness of the fall season.

When I was on my mission in Argentina one of the things I couldn't wait to do was canning with my mom in the fall. (You'd think that "taking a normal shower" would be more on my priority list..) but for some reason I was so excited to do things like can peaches with my Mom.

Last year I was home for fall, but didn't do any canning - so there was no way I was missing out again! I got a bunch of great peaches from the farmers market, my madre got some from a cute little fruit stand and we decided to tag team this project. It's always fun to do stuff like that with her...plus I need her to share her wisdom (now that I'm interested in more than just eating some peaches while my mom forces me to help her) so that I know how to do it myself! Which I'm proud to say that I now know what I'm doing!

We spent like 4 hours one saturday just canning and jamming :) We did a whole bunch of canned peaches and then also a lot of peach jam! The jam we tried a bunch of different varieties; regular, peach-cinnamon, peach-pumpkin pie(MMM my favorite!), and peach-ginger. Variety is the spice of life right?!

   

Jammin all day

  It was a great day spent with my mom! Later that week we also did a bunch of pears...yum yum yum!
And now the grapes in my parents yard are ready to be picked and juiced and we also want to do some homemade apple sauce. Can't wait!

Isn't my mom a babe? She was so excited about "the quintessential peach" that she found :)

That same day I guess we were feeling really domestic because we made some Artisan Bread my mom wanted to try that has to rise for like 26 hours or something crazy like that. And I made a variety of banana bread...man I love that stuff.

Another highlight from that same weekend was going to the Utah vs Utah State soccer game with a bunch of old teammates! We did dinner before and then went to the game and just laughed non-stop talking about all the old trips, practices, games, pranks, conditioning, boyfriends - you name it and we experienced it together! It was so much fun, I love those girls, lifelong friends!

I'm an Aggie for life that's for sure.

UTAH STATE HEY AGGIES ALL THE WAY! 

GO AGGIES GO AGGIES HEY! HEY!! HEY!!!