This past week the disrupted load (damaged truck trailer) that came into the warehouse where my husband works was grapes.  Three flats (ten two pound bags per flat), were hauled home the first night.  The second day my hubby’s best friend brought out another three flats, not realizing that my hubby had already got some, and he delivered ten flats to the local food pantry, that he couldn’t even give away.

So for the past few days we have had grapes everywhere.  You open the fridge door and grapes fall out, you open the freezer door and grapes fall out.  One hundred twenty pounds of grapes taking up every available space in my kitchen.

So I thought I would pawn some off on my family members…

I called my older sister and offered her some, as it turns out, someone from the trucking company had stopped by the plant where my brother-in-law works selling the grapes for five dollars per flat and her husband had picked up five flats and had already given some to our mom, younger sister and grandmother.

So I started making jelly…  36 pints of grape jelly later, and I still have grapes coming out of my ears…

To top it off, our cukes are finally getting ready, along with the two five gallon buckets that my father delivered, the two grocery bags that my younger brother-in-law delivered and the bags that my older sister brought up…  So now, on top of the grapes, I have cukes covering every available surface in the kitchen…

So I started making pickles, 24 gallons (48 half gallon jars) of pickles later, I still have more cukes than I know what to do with, and I used all my garlic surplus making them…

Any one have any good recipes for grapes (red seedless) and/or cucumbers?  I’m simply running out of ideas…

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