2012/08/16

Juice factory

We had again a busy weekend on the island. It's August, which means harvesting in Finland. All the berries are now waiting to be picked, juicy and sweet. And normally when you plan to work in the kitchen, it is hot and sunny, just like this weekend.

We picked some 10 liters of blueberries in the forest, resulting in black hands and back pains...
The girls picked black and red currants from our garden and made several liters of juice with Mehu-Maija juice steamer.

I bought 10 kg black currants from Bjursängen berry farm in Parainen (couldn't actually find black currant for sale in Kemiö) and made two lots of strong and tasty juice.

One bat was watching on the window bench...

On Saturday, we also went by boat to visit my sisters and brother in Karuna, Sauvo. My oldest sister has a new summer cottage and she invited all the siblings there. Was nice to meet each other after a long time - and see how much older the others have become (not me:). She had made salmon soup and for vegetarians chanterelle soup. Both soups tasted so good outside.

Traditional cooking

I miss my mother's cabbage rolls at this time of the year. As she is no longer with us to make those, I decided to try wheather I can cook as good rolls as she did. Not quite, but JD liked them a lot (which is a big achievement). I picked the recipe from Eero Mäkelä's cook book. Next time I'll ad some more pepper to the filling.