Curse you, motivation!

For the last two weeks, now that we are officially in asparagus season around here, I'm kind of been playing a game of chicken with the price of it...is the current price really as low as it will go?  That's kind of risky though, because the asparagus harvest season moves pretty quick, and once the price decides to go back up, it goes back up quickly, and all of the sudden $1.50 a pound is $3.00 a pound.

Saturday, I decided I had waited long enough, and I hit one of the local farm stands to pick up about 20 pounds worth. 
Sunday was spent preserving...mostly pickling, although there was some left over to blanch a few pounds and throw it in the freezer for later.



 

 

As always with something like pickles, now the waiting begins.  

 

When my wife whips a batch of her jam, there is usually some amount that isn't worth canning, and so we get to try some right away.  With pickles, we need to wait at least a couple of weeks.