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OK, post-graduate degrees aside, I have done the unthinkable! Me! No-green-thumb-havin', can't keep houseplants alive me! I made...wait for it....
GRAPE JELLY!
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We grew these grapes at our own little chicken ranch!! They are wine grapes, I think, so slightly smaller than the kind you might acquire at the grocery. OK, by "grew" I mostly mean we haven't killed the vines yet, but that's probably purely accidental. My husband did do a great job of watering them semi-regularly.
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I used a potato masher to squash the juice from them...
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...then hung the remaining pulp in cheesecloth until all the juice that was to be had...was had... (thanks for the guidance, Mom!). Such a pretty green!
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But there's a reason you don't see green grape jelly, I think...mostly it turns brown pretty quickly. So I added maybe just a touch too much green food coloring. ;) But its super delicious! Hooray for grape jelly! Three cheers for this amazing substance they call "pectin."
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I was pleased this fellow didn't sneak into the house on the green grapes, I might not have seen him!
All the better to see the grape jelly with, my dear...
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