I’ve been trying out a dairy-free and grain-free diet recently, and it’s very hard to come up with a good dessert recipe! Thanks, Deborah, for giving me something to bring to my sister, Deborah’s, thanksgiving dinner!

Yes, I hope to make my own elderberry jelly this year. The fruit is quite seedy and you need a lot of it to get enough juice. But the jelly I’ve had is delicious!
Around here the plants grow on stream banks and the fruit is ripe in late August. In the next week or so I’ll be scouting out a good stand of bushes. Summer fun!

Apricot jam is just about my favorite. Soon, I’ll be knocking on the door of a neighbor who has a gigantic apricot tree- I pick the fruit and share the jam with them.It’s perfect!!

I just returned from a nostalgic tour of Davis, Winters also along with a stop in Newcastle (East of Sacramento). I agree driving does have it’s benefits! I brought back pluots, white nectarines, and a belly full of those Blenheim apricots...one of my favorites. Here in Idaho we also have lots of wild elderberries. I’ve found they make a terrific jelly.

Amen to Rhubarb soda. that is my go-to afternoon drink i the spring!

Yesterday Mike and I had a fantastic lunch of Grilled Sturgeon sandwiches at the Snake River Grill in Hagerman, Idaho. We were on our way home to Boise from Death Valley and it was the best restaurant meal we’d had in a week! Hagerman is most famous for it’s trout farms...as in Idaho Trout,but they’re becoming known for their sturgeon also- and the setting in the Snake River Canyon is heavenly.