Sour Cherry Preserve

 

 

 

 

Is June, it's time to pick sour cherry from the farm .  I've been lucky enough to find this family farm 1 hour drive distance from our home - in a matter of week, sour cherry will be gone especially only 1 place near by has this tree on their farm.

 

 

 

We were serious cherry picker, you know.  Within 2 hours we  picked so many cherries, blueberries also (surprise surprise) mulberries to bring home , as I always have plan on my head what should I do with this beauty!  Torshi and Moraba are the option, since our own Iranian - Indonesian family loves eat fresh bread with moraba.

 

Here is the simple recipe I'd like to share, hope you are lucky enough to get sour cherry on your hand otherwise regular cherry will work fine to, only reduce of sugar .

 

 

Sour Cherries Preserve - Moraba-ye- Albaloo

Ingredients :

11/2 lbs sour cherry

1 cup sugar

 

1 tbsp. rose water (optional)

 

Directions :

Wash, dry and remove pits from sour cherries

Add sugar to sour cherries and let them sit there for a couple of hours.

Place fruit and juices in a pot and bring to a simmer. Remove extra foam. Simmer for about an hour until the juices turn into syrup. Sometimes sour cherries have a lot of juice. You have two options if you are left with too much syrup. One option is to remove the actual fruit from the pot and reduce the remaining syrup. The other option is to save the syrup and and add ice and water for refreshing drink during hot summer day - all natural ingredients l !!

 

　

 

Pickled Sour Cherries - Torshi-ye-Albaloo

Ingredients :

1 lbs sour cherry

400ml white vinegar

2 tsp salt

100 gr sugar

2 fresh thyme sprigs

10 whole peppercorns

 

Directions :

wash and sort through the cherry carefully, discarding the leaves and trimming the stalk .

Place the vinegar and generous about 200ml water in a pan, add salt bring to boil than add rhe sugar, turn off the heat down , simmer about 10 minutes until sugar dissolve

Divide the cherries , thyme, between sterilized jar. Pour the pickling liquid over the top, allow to coll and seal. Allow at least 1 week before you trying your torshi (honestly this is the hard part)

Mrs.Field Chocolate Cookies - Copy Cat

 

 

Summer is definitely on the air now, we have a humid weather already - not three digits temperature yet, around 80 F so far. We have a heavy rain every day during a week , mostly 3 hours or so and than stop, when the rain stop than sun coming ... we can feel how humid the air is.  What better than that especially during summer break ?  jump to the swimming pool , off course. 

Try to do the same like last year, I invite several my daughter friends to have play-swim day at home mostly from 2 - 5pm ; so every moms can enjoy their time alone without kids for several hours :)

What better than hear the sound of bunch of kids playing in the water .. 

 

Yesterday, we have 4 girls play along (mostly we have 6 of them but the two(s) on vacation so they will join the crew next week - it's really fun )  I provide the snacks , drinks and fruits... this time the cookies I made was 'Mrs. Field Chocolate Cookies' - the truth I never try to buy those cookies at store, so I have no idea what the taste is, but I found the copy cat recipe through internet .. it was a DELICIOUS cookies !!!  Before the kids come - the jar is full with the cookies, when they left only half jar full , ooh .. the kids will have sugar rush ...  but all mom's didn't mind at all , since they are on summer break *grin*

 

Here is the recipe, I copy Top Secret Recipe site :)

 

 

Mrs. Field Chocolate Cookies

Ingredients :

1 cup (2 sticks) softened butter

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1 1/2 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

2 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 tsp. salt

1 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 1/2 twelve-ounce bag semisweet chocolate chips

 

Directions :

Pre-heat oven to 350 F

In large mixing bowl, cream together the butter, sugar, eggs and vanilla

In another bowl, mixing together all dry ingredient but chocolate chips

Combine the wet and dry ingredients.

With your finger, placed golf ball size dough portion 2 inches apart on an ungreased cookie sheet

Bake about 9 - 10 minute, or just until the edges are light brown

Makes 2 dozen cookies ... and it will disappear before your eyes :)))

 

 

Play Pretend

 

No school (again!) due to the weather .. and this what we love to do together, 'play pretend' .. mom as a teacher and daughter is a good student.

Soon, my little one will take a break and do baking as she like to do next. No school sometime mean I won't have much time to sewing, but I don't mind at all .. time is running to fast, before you know .. the little one will grow as a teenager ... *well.. maybe too soon .. but that what I feel as a mom..not always have enough time to holding her while she was a baby ..

Thank you to uncle Reza for sending her a package of coloring pencils,. its so pretty, though ..she using it alot . :)

Nice Friday ...

 

We've been spoiled by the weather for almost 2 days, between 55F - 60 F everyday, it wasn't bad at all for winter . I try to enjoy the weather, before another polar vortex is coming on next week.. as the weather man said ..

With the nice weather and feeling good, I decided not to touch my sewing machine today but my mixer .. wuhuu ... baking a coffee cake and matcha macaroon *the recipe you can find it easily under the tag : baking, cake*

Everything done in the afternoon, took some pictures for my blog, and when I realize its time to pick up my little one from school . The school is near our house, and since the weather just nice, I decided just to walk.. it was nice walk, I met several parents, chat a little bit.. While I waiting outside, I took some pictures around.. it was really nice day ... can't complain, though ..

 

 

doesn't you like the color of the sky ?? so contrast with a yellow school buses

 

shortcut to home and pick some an interesting rock :)

 

 

have a nice weekend , every one.. xo



Fun learning ❤️

 

No baking today, since I let my little one using my baking scale . She measure all her stuffed animals , and make a note for every one . It was fun learning for her, keep her busy and off course you will have a peaceful sunday morning a little bit. :)

And another quick update is .. kids still going to school for make up days after snow storm last week, so no long weekend for them ; Friday and next Monday supposedly day off but the school still want kids go to school. I assisted the valentine's party at my daughter class room last Friday, and typical of me .. always decide to make something in last minute... but I happy with the result .. new cosmetic bag for valentine's gift for my daughter teacher , well .. we as a parent not obligate to give present for valentine's party but since she turn 30 that day... so why not.. make something simple and add a little things :)

 

 

***update : eeks.. mother nature knows better than us, no school on Monday since freezing rain in the atmosphere .. wuhuu, another home schooling project will be given to little one. :)) **

 

 

Just another day

 

What a quiet morning , just drop my little one to school, and sun still shy to shop up this morning ..

Get slice of pound cake I bake the other day, I feel good ... well, not the best choice of breakfast, though .. but it's freezing cold I can't just a cup of green smoothie I used to drink ... I will feel craving soon.. All right, I will work out soon .. Have a great day, friends..

The beauty of freezing cold ..

 

A polar vortex is coming back , we are facing another freezing cold today. Just 15F - even though the sky is so bright, but still not help .. still cold ... after all this is winter .. what do you expect ? :)) Is alright, I am not complain especially in other of the world facing drought weather even some has water flood, hang on there everybody .. mother nature is show her power !!

 

With the weather like this, mean is schools closed again .. so far 10 days total no school during winter , and another day to play pretend with my daughter. This time I pretend as her teacher ... get some free printable worksheet from online site, print out, getting ready , study etc. No problem so far, she is a nice girl I ever have ; she is enjoy play pretend with her mom. Even preparing her lunch like he regular lunch box .. a small portion this and that .. and at the end of the day, as I promised she will get reward for being a nice student, watching Martha Speak Movie on my computer .

Just another day ....

Sunrise

 

As like my mom always say "wake up before the sound of rooster" ; she was right I'm not an early morning person but I know what she talking about when I see this an early morning ❤️❤️

 

Photo taken from our backyard yesterday morning around 6am with my iPhone ; the sky looks much better on iPhone than on blog.  I think I need to set up the gadget before transfer to site like this, anyway .. I just feel great to see the bright sky and really made my day .. :))