Veggies and fruit for the new year!

A new year has started and small certain steps will soon bring us into spring!

This is really a time of longing for the light and warmth, and still enjoying the freshness in the cold, or actually just cool (around 0 degrees) days outside.

Happy in the January mist outside the stables

The past year suddenly feels so much further away, but we regularly see remnants from it – in the shape of stored veggies and fruit!

This autumn we decided to test two ways of storing apples. Some nice ones we just put on the shelves inside the old milk room in the stables. And some other ones we wrapped in newspaper (I had read that somewhere, that it would keep the fruit from going bad) and we put them in a basket in our “new” cellar.

Just recently I tried some of the last apples from the shelves. They have kept themselves beautifully, and are still really good in taste. Maybe a bit sweater even, than in September. The wrapped apples will be for later, most likely they end up in a last apples pie.

They just needed a good wash - The apples had managed our storage.

In the freezer Johan fund some pear-ginger-chili-cinnamon chutney as well, which we happily consumed with grilled chicken! This will be a chutney to repeat this autumn (if we get a good harvest this year too!)

More than we thought - of carrots and Jerusalem artichokes.

Just after New Year Cecilia and I went out to harvest the last carrots! And we found quite a few! We also managed to dig out some Jerusalem artichokes (jordärtskockor). The carrots tasted fantastic, and we already decided to seed more carrots for next year. But we also tried to get the red beet roots that were still in the ground, but they were not in a fancy shape. A bit soft and attacked by both animals and frost, we learnt they these roots need to get up earlier in the season.

And we did find Mr Carrot as well in our veggie garden!