Bitch and Mel are our neighbours and they have a small orchard of prolificly producing citrus trees - limes, lemons, grapefruit, oranges and cumquats.
I got the call last weekend to come down and help myself. So today, off I went. The donkey's won't mind that I used their feed buckets to fill with citrus and Bitch and Mel just wanted some of it used before the cockatoos come in and strip the trees bare, which is what happened last year. There are literally kilos and kilos of fruit on the trees - awesome.
So, having learnt my lesson last year that one cannot drink several litres of home pressed grapefruit juice in a day without consequences, I held back this time. I think I picked about 15 - 20kg of assorted fruit.
Back to the kitchen and my budding photographer assistant has prepared a step by step collage of my afternoon.
Bad news is I've run out of jars. Thank goodness for ebay - more jars ordered and will be posted first thing Monday.
Next weekend I have planned some 5 fruit marmalade and some - back by popular demand - Margarita marmalade (not for the kiddies).
Now I just need to work out what I'm going to do with about 5kg of limes... any suggestions?
Footnote: Gin and tonic is much much better with fresh lemon juice in it - aaahh
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