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| Ingrid |
Posted - Aug 23 2011 : 08:40:32 AM
Had a great canning week. I put up 60 lbs of cukes for dill pickles, 25 lbs of tomatoes for stewed tomatoes, and did 5 pints of peas and 6 pints of green beans. Also made 8 jars of blackberry jam that I picked wild. I love the way the jars all line up on the counter cooling before I put them in the canning shed. What a great feeling to know there is always food to eat.
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| windswept |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 6:13:32 PM
The garden is winding down...its bittersweet!! We enjoyed a "homegrown" dinner...Chicken, swisschard, beets, and applesause. I love having meals that we provided for ourselves. Hmmm I wonder what my turkeys are thinking now.
lovin the country |
| michgirl |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 06:07:11 AM
Canned a couple of different kinds of applesauce (different spices and chunkiness) am enjoying looking at the rows of jars all done and ready for the winter! |
| jollyquilter |
Posted - Sep 13 2011 : 6:17:12 PM
My beans are about done for good. And I am just getting enough tomatoes to eat on. I am still getting enough cucumbers to eat as well.
I have pears coming the end of the week. Yippy!
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| Calicogirl |
Posted - Sep 13 2011 : 08:33:05 AM
Cheryl that sounds good! Our neighbor has told us to pick as many pears as we want and I just found a Pear Honey recipe yesterday. I like the idea of placing a maraschino cherry in the honey. I bet your grandson just loved that! Today is my day off from canning :)
This week:
~3 batches of Salted Butterscotch Peach Jam (which actually ended up more of a sauce but it's good on vanilla ice cream 
~2 batches of Peach Jam
~2 batches of Banana Pepper Mustard
~2 pints of Sweet Pickled Banana Peppers
~1 batch of Dill Pickles
~1 batch of Sweet Pickles
~1 batch of Peach BBQ Sauce
~1 batch of Sour Cherry Jam
~12 quarts of Sour Cherry Juice
I am glad that the peaches and cucumbers are done. I will just be blessing everyone with the cucumbers from now on :)
I wish that I could say that I am tired of tomatoes. Our growing season is so short here and I have only gotten a couple of handfuls of ripe cherry tomatoes and 3 ripe larger tomatoes. Oh well :)
~Sharon
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| Tapestry |
Posted - Sep 13 2011 : 08:10:42 AM
Canned 8 pts. of pear honey last night after I got home from babysitting. Pureed in my food processor to help speed things up but still took 2 1/2 hrs. to cook down till right thickness. Put a maraschino cherry in each jar for a special treat. Grandson and I tried some on toast at breakfast this morning and ohhh so yummy. Gotta love it :)
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| Ms.Lilly |
Posted - Sep 08 2011 : 09:19:18 AM
Barb- a Squeezo is now what we know as a Victorio Food Mill. My Squeezo was my Grandpa's and it is all metal, I love it. Also with all of those tomatos don't forget to can you up some tomato soup for this winter, you'll be glad you did!
Lillian
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| Ingrid |
Posted - Sep 08 2011 : 07:43:42 AM
I now have 20 quarts of tomatoes and probably at least 50 more lbs to can. Today I am going to attempt to make ketchup, since my kids love ketchup and I am tired of paying the ridiculous price for it. Yesterday I dried plums and made applesauce. I've been regularly freezing beans and peas. This weekend I am canning peaches and pears. I do agree with Beth (Hoosiermom) that I am getting a little tired of canning but everytime I go into my canning room I smile.
Give thanks to yourself everyday for all the wonderful things you do! |
| Hoosiermom |
Posted - Sep 08 2011 : 12:28:53 AM
Yikes...I am growing tired of tomatoes! I have been canning juice, spagehetti sauce, pizza sauce, salsa, don't want to complain because last year I didn't get to can much of anything. I have canned green beans, cowboy candy(candied jalapenos), zucchini pickles, zucchini relish, and chicken. Also froze corn, freezer slaw, strawberry freezer jam, broccoli, peppers. I hear so many people that think this is too much work & complain they can't do it, but I work and do this on my days off & LOVE to have everything fresh from the garden & readily available to me any time! Lots of work and worth it, but I am ready to call it quits with the canner for a while.:)
Beth |
| quiltingfarmergirl |
Posted - Sep 07 2011 : 4:21:58 PM
I have canned 20 quarts of tomatoes and 13 pints of salsa in the past week. A good summer for tomatoes this year. They are still coming on strong. I have given some to friends who also canned 7 quarts each. What's another good canning recipe for tomatoes? Anybody have any suggestions? I have never had luck making good spaghetti sauce for some reason. Lillian, what is a squeezo?
Barb
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| CMac |
Posted - Sep 05 2011 : 8:54:28 PM
Just counted my jars and I have a total of 26 quarts of beans. That will give us about two jars a month. Looks like I need double that amount to have them once a week. Jeez thats a lot of quarts!
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| jollyquilter |
Posted - Sep 05 2011 : 6:17:01 PM
Cmac.........we grow pole beans as well and fix strings for them to run on. This has been a good bean year and I just keep putting up more.
Also a good year for zucchini. I put 62 slices in the freezer so far to flash freeze and then I bag them up. I use these to fry, I made zucchini parmesan with them today.
I also have frozen 30 bags of 2 cups per bag shredded.
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| CMac |
Posted - Sep 05 2011 : 3:53:46 PM
Dawn-We pick green beans up to the first frost. That can be as late as Halloween down here! I'm usually finished canning what we need by mid September and let friends and family come pick. We grow pole beans. I've never grown bush beans. Do they keep producing as long as you keep picking? I've canned 8 quarts of beans, 4 quarts of tomato sauce,3 quarts elderberry pancake syrup, 12 pints of elderberry jelly, and made two batches of elderberry medicinal syrup. If you have ever done elderberry anything you know how much work that was! And I got chiggers to boot! Oh well it was worth every little red spot. How my sweetie avoided them I can't figure out. He loves the elderberry taste so much he has volunteered to help me find and pick them. : ) Now if I could just get him to help me pick them off the stems...
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| windswept |
Posted - Sep 05 2011 : 3:15:25 PM
I really enjoyed reading every ones comments about canning. I love to can and all my friends think that I'm crazy!! Its nice to know that I'm not alone. This late in the season its hard to believe that we are still picking green beans!! We've had 6 pickings so far.
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| jollyquilter |
Posted - Aug 29 2011 : 6:00:49 PM
I did 2 more cannings of beans today.
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| CMac |
Posted - Aug 28 2011 : 9:59:39 PM
I canned 2 pints of tomato sauce today. Sounds puny I know but the tomatoes are dwindling down and I can't stand to lose any of them. I made some peach ice cream with the last of my peaches. They guys loved it. For some reason i just didn't have a taste for it. Weird.
Still picking beans and will can again on Wed. They have really started producing now that the extreme heat is over. For a while I thought I had over fertilized with compost and was only going to have leaves! Glad it was the heat. I would have been ticked if I ruined them after going to the trouble to plant twice as many as last year in order to have more this year.
Is anyone else having trouble getting everything else done because of time spent putting up food? I feel like I'm going 90 to nothing all day long and still staring at things that need to be done when it is time for bed. Not complaining mind you. I'm really looking forward to enjoying all that produce this winter!
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| laurentany |
Posted - Aug 28 2011 : 7:43:08 PM
Made 12 jars of Straberry Jam today with my dear daughter, using MaryJanes Chillover powder which reduced the amount of sugar needed in HALF! I love homemade jams, but not all of the sugar that goes along with them so I am so excited about this! Have to order more Chillover powder- seems like this stuff can come in very handy! Also froze a bunch of green peppers from the garden too. Trying to get as much in the freezer and canned as possible, so come winter we can enjoy it all!
~Laurie
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| Ms.Lilly |
Posted - Aug 28 2011 : 6:28:54 PM
Nicole all of my canned tomato sauce is made with the squeezo. I just put them in a pot of boiling water to soften them up a little, then put them in the squeezo. Put the sauce back on the stove to reduce a bit and can.
I can anything I can get my hands on! Last week was 7 half pints apple-green chile butter, 3 pints green beans (last picking) 70 pints of corn, 4 pints blackberry juice, 7 quarts blackberies, 8 pints blueberries and 7 half pints raspberry-serrano jam. Our pantry is plenty full just the way we like it! This week will be hopefully peaches and tomatos.
Lillian |
| jollyquilter |
Posted - Aug 27 2011 : 4:51:48 PM
I can all my jams and jellies. Tomatoes, green beans, peas in the shell, corn, chow-chow, zucchini relish and zucchini pickles, pickled peppers like you buy in the store that go on pizza's, also a hot sweet pepper that is great on a sandwich. I can carrots and potatoes and sweet potatoes. And as the canning season comes to an end I am always looking for chicken on sale to can. I also can pinto, great northern and butter beans. And I make pork n beans and can them.
I do freezer slaw and I flash freeze my yard long green beans in small packages for stir fry's, I also chop and freeze green peppers and hot peppers as well as freeze about 2 dozen stuffed green peppers that are sealed with my food saver.
I just spent all day today canning green beans and I had 3 canners full. I also canned 3 quarts of tomatoes.
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| Ingrid |
Posted - Aug 27 2011 : 08:15:16 AM
Today I am canning tomatoes, applesauce and freezing peas and green beans. Am also putting plums and apple rings in the dehydrator. Isn't it funny how weather was so crazy this year and I was worried about what would be harvested and now it is harvest crazy. Amazing what nature does for us.
Give thanks to yourself everyday for all the wonderful things you do! |
| tammyknit |
Posted - Aug 27 2011 : 07:43:29 AM
I freeze spaghetti sauce (because that is the recipe I have that my DD likes), corn (tastes better), green beens, peas, and carrots (no pressure canner), and strawberry-blueberry jam (no recipe for canned). Everything else i can (salsa, tomato sauce, tomato juice, lots of pickles, both dilly beans and cucumber), applesauce, apple butter, lots of jam, etc. I am really ready for fall
Tammy |
| debbydoo1966 |
Posted - Aug 27 2011 : 05:25:31 AM
Hi All, I live on the coast of NJ. About a mile from the ocean, half a mile from Barnegat Bay.
I'm getting ready to ride out Hurricane Irene. Picked a bunch of tomatoes yesterday. Going to be canning soup today. Hopefully i'll get it done before the electric goes out.
I've spent the past 3 weekends making sauce and soup. Did I mention that I love Tomatoes...
Debbie |
| CMac |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 9:41:19 PM
I can because I can keep canned green beans for a couple of years just fine. I wouldn't want to eat anything frozen for that long! Call me old fashioned but I just like the taste better. It also shortens cooking time! I do freeze cut corn, okra and yellow squash. I like them better that way. I just don't freeze more than we will eat in a few months time. I also like strawberry freezer jam.
So it looks like I do both!
What do you can and what do you freeze? Why?
Connie
"I have three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for company."
Author: Henry David Thoreau |
| jollyquilter |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 2:36:38 PM
Love to hear all the produce that is being put by for winter storage.
I have had some bad experience with power outages and freezers in thr past so I do as much as possible in jars. I just feel safer that way!
Everyone take care and keep your eyes open for Irene. Stay in touch as much as possible.
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| WoodstreamDreambyNicole |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 2:20:57 PM
Kimberly - I'm not used to them, I just have already prepared, so I'm going on with normal life. We get some nasty nor'easters here in the winter and they brought 60+mph winds, so this is definitely going to be an increased risk, especially with fully leaved trees & saturated ground. But there's nothing I can do other than pray and be prepared. I've done both and continue to do the former.
Finished with the tomatoes - 2 quarts in the freezer, using the remaining 2 cups as sauce for tortellini tonight. Starting on peach preserves after dinner. Didn't find the pectin at the True Value, so I found a recipe that didn't use it. http://www.pickyourown.org/apricotjam.htm
Have a lovely weekend & stay safe any farmgirls here on the east coast weathering Irene!
Nicole
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| Lieberkim |
Posted - Aug 26 2011 : 2:09:40 PM
Nicole - you ladies that so nonchalantly talk about hurricanes amaze me! I guess it all depends on what you are used to, doesn't it? Congrats on the canning! It sounds like you make lots of yummy stuff without canning.
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