L'automne est arrive

I can't help speaking in franglais these days.  L'automne est arrive is the name of the book my daughter brought home to read last night.  Very apt, as the weather and our weekend both had a definite autumnal feel to them.  We went to our wonderful neighbourhood annual corn roast on Saturday, where they served eat as much as you like corn and chili (little did they know how much my lot can eat). I love our little community, it's very tight knit and friendly.

And on Sunday my tomato canning marathon began.  Fourteen hours of blanching, peeling, mincing, sterilising, pouring and processing.  And now a bit of waiting.  Apparently the longer you wait the better it tastes.  It was a long day, but fun and hopefully worth all the effort.

 

And whilst I'm in the mood for all things fallish, I'm off to make spicy sweet potato and butternut squash soup for dinner!    

Comments

[dottycookie]

I love the multicoloured corn. I wonder whether it would grow here. Hmmmmm.

[The Garden Bell - Kate]

What a lovely little blog I just found here. The can tomatos, glass jars are all my favorites. Sure hope to follow your fall adventures more.

Plain and simpley Lovely -

The Garden Bell

[Melissa]

I love the corn picture too! Autumn is my favorite season. Indian corn is so pretty in the Fall, but I cant wait for pumpkins!

[Petit Filoux]

14 hours!!! whao that is one cooking marathon! So what exactly did you do to those tomatoes?
Loving the multi coloured corn - I made a mexican corn soup last night actually, very tasty!
And finally, a word about franglais. I reckon if everyone spoke it, the world would be a better place lol - and I wouldn't have to worry about trying to remember how to say this and this in english or french. Franglais is definitely the way forward!! x

[Joanna]

wow 14hours, real devotion to tomatoes! lovely corn picture.

[Nina - Tabiboo]

Look at all that corn. I've never seen so many delicious colours and with an autumanl tone. We only have the bog standard yellow variety around these parts!!

Enjoy your soup - it sounds yum!!

Nina x

[periwinkle]

good luck with the tomatoes, I'm curious as to what you were doing with it too --- that corn is amazing, I've only ever seen yellow corn

[brandy]

Goodness! 14 hrs?! Looks delicious!!

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[jessica]

That soup sounds beyond delicious! It really is feeling like autumn here --today I kept making tea because of the cool breeze.

[Cat]

Hello. I've just discovered your blog and it's absolutely delightful. 14 hours is true dedication to the tomato cause. Beautiful corn - like African beads. Hope the soup was delicious.

[UK lass in US]

L'automne is a long way off still... the weather was in the 90s today...

[Tina]

yum! Tell me, did you have to boil the jars or do you have another way of canning those tomatoes? I"m new to your blog so you may have written about this and I haven't seen it yet. Did you grow the tomatoes? How many plants for that kind of yield? I'd hoped to can tomatoes myself this year but it's clear that we did not put in enough roma's.

[Imene]

Hi, I just found out we were vintage swap partners. Love your blog.

[Anne Marie]

Ohhh, tomatoe galore! I love tomatoes. The tomatoe sauce looks delicious.