Grapefruit Curd...and a printable Label.

A few weeks back I made some grapefruit curd

I was a little hesitant because, well because... its grapefruit!

I actually liked it better then the lemon curd I made.

I also absolve some of my guilt for letting so many

of our grapefruit go to waste.  I mean really just how

many grapefruit can one eat when you have TWO 

huge grapefruit trees that produce twice a year!!

I followed this recipe HERE

except I did not add the ginger or lemon juice

I did however double my recipe

Above is a picture of it cooking down...

...and here it is brought to a boil.

And here they are all canned and ready to eat!
How about some quick grapefruit breadto go with your curd click HERE tocheck out the recipe!

Here is  printable label for you to download 

print if you decide to make some yourself.

 

Warm Fuzzies

I wanted to share my feel good story with my blog buddies.

I belong to Freecycle.org for my area and had posted the other day that we had an abundance of grapefruit ripe for the pickin' It really makes us feel bad that so many of them go to waste since our trees produce twice a year....We have both white and pink grapefruit trees.  I have picked bags in the past and given them away and had few takers but its been a few years.  This time I had posted a WANT for my sister of a used (but working) and inexpensive older Olympus Camedia 2020 Zoom camera(if you happen to have one let me know), and in order to post a WANT you have to post an OFFER...that's how Freecycle works.  Anyhow, I digress..the point of this post is that I had several responses to my you pick grapefruit offer and received the nicest thank you messages back after they came and picked.  It was not only about getting the grapefruit for themselves, but it also turned out to be the experience of picking them with their families. Normally as I said I would pick them and hang them on the fence for people to come by and pick up, but this time I didn't want to mess with picking them and  I just let people know to bring their own bags and pick as many as they wanted.  The best experience was watching one family who had a little boy put him on their shoulders to pick and hearing him laugh and giggle as he picked grapefruit, it was very sweet and gave my entire family warm fuzzies :-)

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