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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...

This coming week, I plan to can the following: Last week (9-1 thru 9-7) was a slow canning week. The freeze dry was going almost non-stop.

This morning right after breakfast, I started stitching and planned to stitch all day. We were going to have sandwiches for dinner. I’d made fresh bread yesterday, we had roast beef and I love roast beef sandwiches with zucchini relish. Then . . Vince came in and said “Want to go to town with me?”...

I am happy this month has ended. I can a lot but trying to do something every day, and work around the things that would HAVE to be done in a day or two . . it was a lot of work. For things going into the freeze dryer, when they were done I vacuum...

Here we are again, another month that seem to just fly by. Its amazing considering we all seem to suffer one way or another from the weather.

Here in NE Oklahoma it was extreme heat and humidity.

A good thing because of it I was inside a lot, which meant I was keeping myself busy with projects.

Was pretty successful too.

This is going to be a picture heavy post.

I'll start with the one that I had been working on the past few months

the Spring Fling Shop Hop from 2015.

It turned out so pretty, and next ...

This year I haven’t seen much of a shortage in most canning jars. I’ve looked all year for 1.5 pint jars, which are my preference for canning asparagus, and I never did see those. I never inventory my jars but it seems weird that we empty so many jars throughout the year but I always...

I’ve gotten behind on reporting. IF I do this again next year, I’m going to do weekly reports instead of daily reports. The three things I have not reported: My plans for the last few days of August:

It looks like I never reported on making the Green Tomato Curry. I did write this post and it contains a link to the youtube video that has the recipe (more or less) for the Green Tomato Curry. I followed the recipe pretty much exactly with a couple of exceptions. Ignore the ground beef on...