The garden might be dead, but at least we have apricots

As I was writing the last post, the apricots were starting to ripen, but  I was worried we would lose most of them to birds and bugs. The Chinese apricots did much better than expected and we dried them. I used to think of dried fruit as being somewhat tasteless and unexciting, but home-dried apricots are the opposite. I never had a dried apricot before I met Russ' parents. They used to have several large apricot trees and would dry the fruit every year. I tasted some when I first met them and was hooked. We eat them plain and add them to soups. The trick is to let them ripen as much as possible and then dip them in sugar syrup before placing them in the dehydrator.