Category Archives: Canning

Feb Canning Report 2014

Well, Feb has come, and its time to get some more things canned up, I need to do meat but I also need to do some of the storage things and in some cases its just a matter of re-doing … Continue reading

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Jan 2014 canning Update

So far, its been pretty slow really, but I am ideally going to be canning a bit more before the end of the month, we will see how it goes.. The plan is to just do one monthly canning update, … Continue reading

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What is your favorite dressing for five bean salad !?

Ok, so Dh does not like beans, as in when I meet him, he would not eat beans at all, its a texture thing or its a combo of a texture thing and a raised that way thing, when it … Continue reading

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Zucchini Fruit with Pinnapple

I love this, for full recipes please read this page on making mock pinnapple.. Otherwise, enjoy the photo of the process! so so good, the extra juice was made into a amazing jelly! Peeling, chopping, cooking and then getting to … Continue reading

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Food Storage Friday-How much Sugar did we use in 2011?

What a amazing supper tonight, a pd of grass fed lamb, a quart of tomato’s, onions, and peppers mix, a pint of corn, a pint of pinto beans, half a cup of diced dried mushrooms, and for that only thing … Continue reading

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Food Storage Friday- Orange Cottage Cheese Salad Recipe

Where are my christmas baking supply sales!! No where to be found yet, O they are pimping the products left, right and center but the price’s tell the truth, even on sale they are higher then there were last year.. … Continue reading

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Kohlrabi Recipes

Kohlrabi is a relative of the cabbage, its name is a german term for cabbage(Kohl)-Turnip(Rabi). Any of the white varieties are excellent for canning, the one above is Gigante, which produces large bulbs that stay tender and are excellent for … Continue reading

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One Pumpkin-Four Recipes…

Well Good Morning, Its a perfect Fall day and I am starting in on my pumpkins, thought I would share what I am working from my first pumpkin, it weight in as 22.2 pds whole. So first I washed it, then … Continue reading

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Pear-Jalapeno Marmalade Recipe

Dear Hubbies Ma is currently visiting both us and some of the other family, and she had brought me a new history/cookbook called Acadian Plantation Country Cookbook by Anne Butler. Its a interesting book, a couple pages on the history … Continue reading

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Cracked the 1000 Jar mark today in this years canning!

Yahoo!!! With today’s canning, and the last batch in the canner as I write, I have put up 1025 jars so far this year, my goal is to get to at least 1200 plus and its clearly within reach at … Continue reading

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