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VT Oma
True Blue Farmgirl
373 Posts
Sheila
Greensboro
Vermont
USA
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 Posted - Feb 01 2025 : 05:11:40 AM
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Boy everyone is making me hungry. I don't have a pressure canner, I need to save up for one, but I do cold water bath. I made jam and I canned some peaches. I do have a great dehydrator and I dried cherries, apples, and red peppers and eggplant plus a bunch of herbs. I grabbed a hand full of red peppers and rehydrated them and put them in my eggs with some cheddar cheese served along with home made bread for breakfast It was so tasty I think I will dry more peppers this summer.
VT Oma #5766
Under a tall tree I will lie, and let the clouds go sailing by. - J.R.R. Tolkien
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Feb 01 2025 : 05:22:26 AM
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Sheila, your rehydrated red peppers with cheese & eggs sounds so good. How do you use your dried eggplant?
Thanks for reminding me that pantry to table also includes what we dry.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4415 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2025 : 04:06:48 AM
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I love snacking on dried pears. Yum.
Farming in WI
Michele
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Feb 02 2025 : 12:34:06 PM
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Today I made a pork loin stew with 2 jars of pork loin, a jar of carrots, sweet potatoes and a half jar of herb apples. I enjoyed a serving and will freeze what I don't have tomorrow.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4415 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Feb 03 2025 : 03:14:06 AM
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Sara that sounds great. And it did not take hours to make, that is wonderful. Enjoy.
Farming in WI
Michele
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Nancy Joplin
True Blue Farmgirl
352 Posts
Nancy
Ontario
California
USA
352 Posts |
Posted - Feb 03 2025 : 1:21:10 PM
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Sounds really good, Sara!
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4415 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4415 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2025 : 03:45:08 AM
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It makes me smile when I am washing jars from almost every meal. It might be a jam or jelly, pickles, fruits or vegetables, the main meal or dessert. Made the hunters goulash last night, which uses three different canned jars.
Farming in WI
Michele
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Feb 05 2025 : 06:44:35 AM
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Michelle, I know what you mean, it takes the chore out of washing the jars.
Today its baked pasta using a jar of hamburger meat, 2 jars of spaghetti sauce, and 1 jar marinated mushrooms.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Feb 12 2025 : 08:57:56 AM
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Not having a good day today so veg soup sounded good to me. Along with fresh veggies I added dried kale and a pint of my chili with beans. Years ago there was a buffet style restaurant that made "chuck wagon veg soup" and it was so good. To veg soup they added chili.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2943 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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Posted - Feb 12 2025 : 3:55:15 PM
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| Sara, that sounds so good for a puny feeling day and a cold dreary day like it is here. I made some chili with some salsa from 2022, and tomatoes from 2023 (I'm a rebel that way). The salsa added a nice level of spice and sweetness. I had enough left over to make a chili pie the following night. I added the leftover to a pie crust, added cheese jalapenos and folded the crust in, rustic style. |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Feb 13 2025 : 06:16:21 AM
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Lisa, your chili pie sounds tasty and I like rustic style foods.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Feb 17 2025 : 09:05:59 AM
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Today I made chili with a pint each of my eye of the goat beans, sweet potatoes, and stew meat. Also added one small red onion, tomato paste, whole tomatoes with juice, Mexican oregano, garlic powder, ground cumin, chili powder, and red pepper flakes. The chili was tasty and could not taste the sweet potatoes, but they did help to thicken the chili since I did not use any flour.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2943 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
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Posted - Feb 17 2025 : 1:43:54 PM
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| That sound so good with the stew meat instead of ground. Your spices sound so on point for my taste buds! I always add pumpkin to my chili as a thickener, including my dehydrated pumpkin dust. If anything, it adds a bit of sweetness along with the thickening. |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
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Posted - Feb 17 2025 : 3:02:44 PM
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Lisa a couple of years ago you posted about putting pumpkin in your chili and I tried it and liked it. Don't remember why I didn't can pumpkins last fall, probably didn't feel up to it at the time pumpkins were in the stores. I didn't have pumpkin for my chili, but I did have canned sweet potatoes so used them instead. Sweet potatoes should be in the pumpkin family because they are so much alike.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4415 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4415 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2025 : 04:28:49 AM
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The other day I spent time doing a canning inventory and again straightening the shelves. I wanted to get all the empty jars in one area, and see how many empty I had. Syrup season is coming fast. So I grabbed jars that I wanted to bring upstairs. Christmas jam, rhubarb and elderberry juice, apple pie filling for a pie, peaches, and applesauce. An inventory does let me figure out like how many tomato plants to start, and so on. I love shopping in my basement lol.
Farming in WI
Michele
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Nancy Joplin
True Blue Farmgirl
352 Posts
Nancy
Ontario
California
USA
352 Posts |
Posted - Mar 07 2025 : 11:20:00 AM
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Michele, you have a good system going! I love being able to shop in my pantry also! this year I am hoping to can more so that I can have more on hand.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4415 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4415 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2025 : 05:35:06 AM
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Had one of those days when, whats for dinner? Don't feel like cooking either. I go grab two pint jars of soup, and some freezer biscuits to cook up.
Now it is a new day, have hamburger thawed from yesterday, but no ideas yet on what to make..........lol. It is early yet. lol Happy Cooking!
Farming in WI
Michele
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Mar 20 2025 : 06:36:46 AM
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Today it's soup I made from the leftover stew meat and veggies from canning beef stew. Only one small serving so I will add a pint of my chili & beans to make chuck wagon soup that way I can have it for lunch and supper.
Michelle hamburger meat is always a good place to start cooking. If you are pressed for time sloppy Joes is a good choice.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Mar 22 2025 : 06:22:09 AM
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While putting up a jar in the little closet in my bedroom that I have turned into a pantry I shopped for my lunch on the canning shelves. Carrots to cook with honey & ginger for supper; ground beef & spaghetti sauce to make Texas goulash, more red onions, Mexican oregano, ground cumin, & red pepper flakes.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4415 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4415 Posts |
Posted - Mar 23 2025 : 04:08:54 AM
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Not having to leave the house to go shopping for lunch===Priceless! lol Enjoy Sara.
Farming in WI
Michele
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Nancy Joplin
True Blue Farmgirl
352 Posts
Nancy
Ontario
California
USA
352 Posts |
Posted - Mar 23 2025 : 1:39:23 PM
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I love cooking from the pantry and my freezer! So much easier than having to go to the store!
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2025 : 09:30:34 AM
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Today it's a pint of pork loin with tomato paste, red onion, my dried Greek oregano, powdered garlic & onion. Cooked in the oven with a pint of carrots and a pint of sweet potatoes. Should be a tasty fall early supper in the spring. Used three jars of canned goodness today.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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nubidane
True Blue Farmgirl
2943 Posts
Lisa
Georgetown
OH
2943 Posts |
Posted - Mar 25 2025 : 3:33:42 PM
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Wow Sara! You are really rocking your larder! Way to go!
I'm also having pork loin, but it is from the freezer, in the slow cooker with rosemary, s & p and a pat or 2 of butter (I like that flavor boost)
Then some field peas that I got at the local IGA in a HUGE pack for $2.
I am stating right here and now that I am committed to a better garden this year. Last year was a bust, and hopefully that means more canned goodies. |
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl
7260 Posts
Sara
Paris
TX
USA
7260 Posts |
Posted - Mar 26 2025 : 10:58:25 AM
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Lisa, here's to you having a wonderful garden this year.
Sara
Lord put your arm around my shoulders & your hand over my mouth.
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
4415 Posts
Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
4415 Posts |
Posted - Mar 30 2025 : 04:52:06 AM
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Here is an easy soup to make- White Chili.
A jar of chicken stock, jar of chicken, jar of great northern beans, jar of green chili's, a bag of frozen corn, 4 oz of cream cheese, and spices. Throw all but the cream cheese in a crock pot, and let er cook. Add cream cheese a while before serving. I forgot to add half and half, but it was still good.
I never made this before, and this is a keeper. Recipe off the internet- The Chunky Chef.
Farming in WI
Michele
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