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The elderberries are getting ripe so quickly. Thursday evening I picked two full grocery sacks full. I cut the stem off just behind where the berries start so a full bag has lots of stem and debris, along with the berries. Once they’re frozen, I will take one bag out of the freezer at a...

This morning I started right away working on the yellow hominy and got it all canned – 12 pints. If anyone is interested in making hominy, Red Rose Homestead has good, fairly concise instructions in this video. At about the 20:00 point, she’s talking about her jars, after canning, having no water – the corn...

In September, 2023, I wrote this blog post about canning this Chipotle Beef Soup (link to recipe is included). I followed the recipe pretty much exactly (“exactly” isn’t always *exactly* for me) except I may have double quadrupled the recipe because, according to the blog post, I ended up with 12 quarts and the recipe...

Summer is my least favorite season. It’s my own fault but there’s so much to do with the garden and with canning and putting up as much produce as I can so we’ll have homemade goodies through the winter. I got a big bag of pickling cucumbers so I’ve been making pickles. I surely don’t...

Almost 7:00 p.m. and I’m just ready to start stitching. Got the ground beef canned, sheets washed and lunch cooked, cleaned up and leftovers in the freezer. The biggest project was getting the ground beef canned. I love canning and would do it every day but . . don’t need that much canned food. We...

No preaching to me about what I should not be doing, OK? I was careful. My finger is bandaged and I wore a disposable glove AND a thicker rubber glove. Beth Ferrier (some of you may remember her from quilting) posted on FB yesterday that she had made this recipe for Rhubarb BBQ Sauce. Beth...

I mentioned that a friend had picked up two flats of strawberries for me Thursday. We were on our way home from Louisiana so I got them from her Thursday night. Friday I washed and cut up about half of them and put most of them in the fridge. Today I made 5 pints of...

Note: When making lilac jelly, make sure you’re getting blossoms from a “common lilac” as other types, such as the Persian lilac, are said to not be safe for consumption by humans or pets. Yesterday morning I started with the lilacs that had been steeping overnight and made lilac jelly. The recipe I use for...

Tuesday I pulled all the tomatoes out of the freezer. There were 11 one gallon zipper bags of tomatoes. I washed them all and was only able to fit 9 bags of them in the 18 quart roaster so two bags went back into the freezer. I had planned to make ketchup. Most of the...

There are more and more options available for jars, lids and rings. I’ve been a long, long time Ball jars user and for years have bought them from Walmart or farm supply type stores. Azure Standard now has jars. You do have to have a drop location near you, you do have to be available...

Yesterday I made a stop by the grocery store and got the peppers (bell and jalapeno) and the cilantro that I needed to make the green tomato salsa. Lesson learned: Do all this while the produce is in the garden! I had made a batch, probably about 12 pints, during the summer and we ran...

Yesterday I opened a freezer and had a landslide. I’m always afraid a frozen turkey is going to fall out and hit my foot. I grabbed on thing to get out and everything started falling. I couldn’t just drop whatever was in my left hand and I was trying to hold everything back with my...

Let's Make Some Cranberry Juice and I will show you how to can it two ways!To make your cranberry juice you will need the following:7 Quart Canning Jars with lids and rings3 1/2 cups of white sugar3 12 oz bags of CranberriesOrange peel is optionalIn each jar, measure 1 1/2 cups of cranberries, 1/4-1/2 cup of sugar depending on how sweet you like it, top with water to the 1" mark on your jar, wipe

Sam’s has a 6 pack of canned chicken breasts for $2.14 each when you buy the six pack for $12.84. That was the price yesterday. When I bought these exact same cans of chicken in October, 2021, the cost was $9.98 per 6 pack so the cans were $1.66 each. That’s 50 cents more per...

When I canned Chicken Corn Chowder, I mentioned Grow & Preserve’s soup video. I’ve also mentioned how much I love having soup in jars, especially on busy days when I would be grasping for something for dinner if I didn’t have food in the freezer and in jars that’s ready to heat and serve. Yesterday...

Yesterday after we finished eating the Carnitas, I started putting the leftover meat in jars and I was planning to put it in the fridge and have it over the next few days but there was going to be 3 quarts of it. That’s too much to have in the fridge so I ended up...

If you are a canner and haven’t watched any of the videos by Grow & Preserve, I encourage you to do so. She cans so many things that look amazing and everything I’ve canned based on recipes she’s shared . . it’s all be great. In this video, she makes and cans and then shares...

Yesterday I was putting away the jars of Green Tomato Curry and as I was re-arranging things to make try to keep some sense of organization in the storage room, I came across a few jars of pork but I had not labeled them. I knew they had been canned this year because of my...

Yesterday I mentioned that I was canning ground turkey and green tomato curry sauce. I got it all done! 16 pints of curry sauce and 11 pints of ground turkey. As I was labeling the turkey, I laughed! Whatever I’m canning, I’ll label with basically what’s in the jar and the year. Sometimes, after a...