Food and Vintage Finds

This isn't a road trip but I thought I would show off how I use some of my finds.

The warm brown of Marcrest Daisy Dot Dinnerware is perfect for comfort food. On a cold winter's day, I decided to jazz up the tomato soup a bit. Instead of adding water to canned soup, I added a can of diced tomatoes and some fresh basil with a healthy pinch of cracked pepper. What a difference! Then I grilled a ham and cheese sandwich and added some apple wedges on the side. Perfect meal for a cold day made even better when served on vintage dinnerware!

On to the Great Grapefruit Adventure! We have a grapefruit tree in our backyard. Just one. We had already picked a number of grapefruit and enjoyed fresh grapefruit for breakfast and snacks. Then a hard freeze hit. Grapefruit can handle an hour or two of 32 degree weather but when it goes down into the 20's for two consecutive nights, you have to pick them all.

We started picking. And we picked and picked and picked! Eighty grapefruit off one tree and we had already picked 30-35! What can we do with 80 grapefruit at one time???

Well, you buy frozen juice in the store all the time so why not freeze the juice? I immediately thought of my mother's juicer attachment for her stand mixer. I had kept it even though I wasn't sure if I would ever use it. I wasn't even sure how to attach it to the mixer.

I figure the little metal pin with the slot in it had to attach to something that rotated. If you rotate the handle on top, the juicer sits right on top and the shoot allows the juice to pour into the mixing bowl below.

My little kitchen elf got busy and sliced all the grapefruit in half. Then he started in with the juicer. If not for the electric juicer, I don't think he could have completed the task all at one time. We ended up with four huge stock pots of juice and 18 quarts of juice for the freezer! That juicer is an oldie but a goodie!

Now on to the orange juice!

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