Part of the joy of creating and tending a garden is the bounty of the harvest. I am hoping for a bumper crop of many of the vegetables I am growing this year. The lessons of frugality and not wasting things are those that were taught to me by my grandmother, but sadly I have not always lived by those principles. As I get older, I find those lessons come back to remind me that I need to follow them....and I am, but I am doing it with my own twist and style.
While shopping at Sur La Table today, I came across my favorite Italian canning jars, I absolutely love the shape and style of these jars and to my delight, they were on sale...combined with my culinary professional discount (I still teach cooking periodically), the jars were the same price as buying standard Ball Jars (which I love too). I may save my pennies this summer to purchase some French jam jars and some German Weck jars as well so my pantry looks as beautiful as it is functional. For a selection of spectacular canning jars, visit Sur La Table's Website http://www.surlatable.com/search/searchContainer.jsp?q=italian%20canning%20jars&s=tru or if you have a store in your area, pay them a visit
Anyway, enough with my canning geekiness. I am really fortunate to have a pantry space already in my basement, but alas it has been neglected and used as a haphazard storage room for 8 years. This morning, I was determined to clean it out, clean it up and get it ready to stock my garden bounty and that is just what I did. I cleared everything out, gave it a good sanitizing washdown and stocked it with containers to root cellar the potatoes when they come in along with onions and other dry goods. I also left space for canned goods (both home canned and those gourmet items from the store when they are on sale). I also put in some modular wine racks to hold the overflow from my butler's pantry rack.
Gardening not only impacts the outdoors, but it even helps you indoors!
Happy Gardening!
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