Preserving Summer

Preserving is something that we do a lot of here chez moi. I love to see a full pantry when we're nearing the end of summer. We have tomato sauce, apricot jam and preserves, applesauce, peach preserves, peach and jalapeno jelly, sweet pickled jalapenos, dehydrated tomatoes, dried peppers (for pepper flakes and powders), and then there's the stuff in the freezer! Basil pesto, ground cherries, peaches for smoothies, roasted tomatoes and onions and garlic...

Ty stays home and makes sure the house doesn't burn down and the fur babies don't bust things (or each other, in some cases involving guarding tomatoes!). He's the farmer. He's the one with the green thumb. I'm just proud to be able to (mostly) support his dream of growing things. He's able to sell produce to local restaurants, trade for things we need or want, and put food on the table all year round.

One thing I struggle with is knowing what to do with all the things we grow. We do sauce, we do pickled, we do dehydrated. What things do you do with preserving? Am I missing out on crazy delicious things?