This past long week-end I went with Kate, Stu and their friend Jordan to Niagara-on-the-lake. It is SO beautiful there. It really reminded me of home and made me miss it a lot. It was lush greenery for as far as the eye can see. No eye-sore 6 zillion floor skyscrapers!
We toured three wineries Jackson-Triggs, Inniskillin and Peninsula Ridge. Now I'm not a dry wine fan and I can't drink red wine. So that kinda limits what I would want to drink. Stu luckily isn't a dry wine fan either so we shared some samples.
At Penninsula Ridge the only wine they had that wasn't a 0 was their ice wine so Stu tried one of them and I tried the other. They were REALLY good. I LOVE ice wine. Sadly it is also the most expensive wine :P The wine tasting bar wasn't too bad there. You could try any 4 regular wines for $2 or try 1 ice wine for $2.
Next winery was Inniskillin. You could try any regular wine for a $1 but their ice wine samples were $7! For a teeny tiny sample you paid $7!!! It was nuts! They hardly gave you anything in that glass! Needless to say we didn't really sample anything there.
The last winery we hit was Jackson-Triggs. You could try any 3 regular wines for free! The ice wines weren't at the sampling bar from what we could figure. So I tried two of their regular wines which were a 1 and 2 on the sweetness scale. They weren't too bad but I still prefer a little sweeter.
Jackson-Triggs also had a concert going on that night with Steven Page of the Barenaked Ladies. Unfortunately, the concert was sold out so we didn't see it. We headed out of town shortly thereafter.
Before we visited Inniskillin and Jackson-Triggs we walked along the main drag and visited some of the shops. I bought some Irish Cream fudge from Maple Leaf Fudge company and we also visited the Scottish Shop where I bought myself a ring with the Scottish thistle on either side of a purple stone. That was my treat to myself.
On the way home Jordan and Stu decided to buy a half bushel of peaches and do some canning. The lady we bought them from was really cool we had a nice chat with her. On the way out we stopped to get gas at which point Jordan realized that he hadn't paid her! So Stu drove back to the little fruit stand at warp speed! Luckily they were just packing up and she was still there. She was so glad that we had come back she gave us a basket of grapes and a basket of apples for our trouble. Wow! Not sure what the moral of that story is!
Monday was spent assisting Jordan and Stu in their canning endeavor. I will NEVER do that again. The amount of work involved does not make up for the cheapness of the endeavor. I'd just as soon as buy canned peaches from the grocery store.
The blanching process didn't work. (For those of you who don't know this means that you stick the peach in boiling water for 20 seconds and the you quickly put it in a sink of ice cold water and remove it and the skin should just fall off) Let's just say I managed to get 1 peach to work and after that none of them would. So we had to hand peel half a bushel of peaches! Never again I tell you!
Oh and did you know that you can use a vegetable peeler on a peach! It does in fact work!
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