Week 22 - Glass

This week's theme was glass and I was overwhelmed with inspiration - or at least I would have been if I had looked at the right week, instead of skipping ahead to next week's theme.  On the bright side, I have lots of ideas for week 23 - weather!

So today before heading off for Sunday lunch with friends, I took this:

 

the dusty tops of a couple of kilner jars of last year's produce, tucked away in the corner of the barn.  

Every year I try to find ways of preserving as much of my veggie harvest as I can, and kilner jars are one of my favourites.

There is something about the heavy glass lids and wire catches that just evokes authentic homegrown produce.

Another 8 jars of passata

With winter fast approaching we have been busy the last few days getting as much as possible of our last bits of harvest in and stored.

Another 8 jars of passata came from the last tomatoes in the greenhouse when I cleared it out in the week, but did not get cooked up until today.

Another jar of dried foraged field mushrooms.

Another large bottle of dried mixed herbs.

And the last of my jars has now been used up, just a few kilners to go for the pumpkin puree and that's it.

Red bell peppers and green chillies under oil in some pop top beer bottles, garlic cloves in oil for everyday use in old vodka and gin bottles.

And that was the last of my glass bottles used up.

The pantry is overflowing now, I have a whole corner of the barn also devoted to jars of jam and chutney. We will definitely not starve.

Going to carve up the Halloween pumpkin now ready for tonight.