Mmmmmm…

This morning Knut and Silje and David went berry picking.

Boy did they ever!

With the 4th of July just around the corner, there are pies to be made! Plus last year I didn’t’ make any jellies or jams because I had such a surplus from the year before. Last year I was able to focus on apples and tomatoes as far as canning. This year however, my jellies and jams may not make it to spring, so I need to make some strawberry jam, strawberry-rhubarb jam, and rhubarb jelly. Thus, the extra strawberries, because if you go to all the trouble to make fresh jam, it might as well be amazing freshly picked strawberries!

That, however, is mostly on tomorrow’s to do-list. The strawberries will have to hold until then. (And the rhubarb jelly might not happen tomorrow either, because I need to make pies for the 4th too!) Today I’ve made bread, froze a batch of chili, and just finished putting 28 fresh chimichangas in the freezer for future use. I still have one of my family’s favorite: broccoli calzones, as well as assembling 4? or so meat loafs for the freezer to go today. I feel as though I’ve been staring into my refrigerator far too often at 5:30 pm with no idea what is for supper lately. So the answer? A massive freezer meal cooking day. It’s been awhile! Elias was home with me in the kitchen, and wasn’t the most help. However, I put on some of the old VBS music from years past, and we made a party of it!