Pioneer Woman at Heart

The last pear wine update was posted here ( November 9, 2016 ).  We had some wonderful taste tests, and eventually bottled it.  However, the bottles with corks popped some tops, and turned pink.   We didn't have enough bottles with screw caps, so much went bad.  However, to our delight, we kept one screw cap bottle.   We popped it open last night.  It was very good, but too much carbonation in it.  More like a high alcohol champagne, ha ha! We are so excited that we've learned so much already, and next time we will have another carboy and we'll let it sit longer with the bubble airlock on it.   We were so happy to enjoy that one single bottle, and now we are prepared to do any fruit wine.  Peach, cherry, any berry, grape, plum, apple....I may need more fruit trees, ha ha! We now have a supply of empty screw cap wine bottles too (thanks to my wine drinking friends and family).  Many wine companies and changing o...

I had 4 mashed potato servings in the freezer from last year.  They had a small amount of ice on each one, but guess what....  ...we baked them up the other night, and they tasted absolutely fine.  No freezer burn taste.  Just delicious-ness.  They are not yellow, that was the lighting that evening, as it was dark outside and raining.  Oh, the rain fell, and fell and fell and is still falling today.