Pantry Build {Cherryland Cottage}

If you know anything about the San Francisco Bay Area, you know rents are ridiculously high.  Therefore, to find a rental that isn't an apartment, has a yard, is within a reasonable commute*, and affordable.... well, it has it's challenges.  We were fortunate recently to find such a cottage, with history and charm, and a yard perfectly sized for us.  {History and charm is my way of saying the cottage is old, strangely built in sections, and has plenty of quirks.}  Most importantly though, it is affordable and 25 minutes to work!

Canning Fool!

How about some homemade pasta sauce? Who knew it took so much time to make it!?! I've taken the canning adventure and had a lot of fun boiling and pickling veggies. I made pasta sauce (with tomatoes, peppers, onions, carrots), corn relish, bread and butter pickles and sweet cucumber relish. Very tasty goodness indeed! I'd like to make some jams, hopefully I can find a good deal on fruit somewhere this week.