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Yesterday was our Azure Standard pickup day and one of the things I had ordered was cranberries. It was 10 pounds of frozen cranberries that were so pretty. I should have taken pictures but I didn’t. Early this morning I juiced the cranberries. I got five quarts of juice. I didn’t mash the berries but...

I was lucky! I didn’t want to have to be making Cincinnati Chili over and over again trying to find the perfect recipe. I think Vince is the one who found this recipe. I told Vince I was going to follow the recipe exactly (which I don’t usually do) and see what he thought. I...

Years and years ago, back in 2014, a friend had canned coleslaw. I was skeptical about whether the cabbage would be mushy and gross but it is not! This is the recipe we use. Here’s a post I wrote in 2015 about cabbage, coleslaw and kraut. Even if you’re not interested in making any of...

I really can’t stop thinking about the Green Tomato Curry. Yesterday evening I went out and picked the green tomatoes off one row of the slicer tomatoes. I’m hoping to have more paste tomatoes than slicers but I’m not sure it’s going to work out that way. I picked everything off the plants so there...

I had taken three gallon size zipper bags of tomatoes, which was right at 15 pounds, out of the freezer to make room for elderberries so yesterday I started cooking those down, then this morning I finished the process, got them in jars and canned. I ended up with 10 pints. A pint is plenty...

While trying to make room in the freezer for more elderberries yesterday, I found 6 pounds of breakfast sausage so I stuck that in the fridge to defrost, browned it this morning and canned about 5-1/2 pounds. I cut one tube in half and we had some for breakfast this morning and will probably have...

Yesterday I gathered more elderberries. See all those stems in there? In the picture, it looks like it would be so easy to pick those out. It is NOT! I love having elderberries but I so dread cleaning them. That pile is about 9 pounds, including the stems. I divided it up into three grocery...

Back on July 4 I posted about making Strawberry Butter. The recipe link is in that post. That day I made 3 pints, 13 half pints and 1 quarter pint. We both love it! A couple of mornings ago we finished a half pint, which means we’ve eaten the quarter pint and one half pint....

We had rain the middle of last week and my peppers seem to have been revived. I picked quite a few yesterday . . a couple of this and a couple of that. I have several types of jalapenos, bell, banana, poblano, serrano, Chinese 5 color peppers, marconi and cayenne. Chad likes to dry the...

The tomatoes are slowing down so I’ll soon have more time to can things other than from the garden. I need to put more effort into canning food from the freezer. This morning I pulled out 15 pounds of ground beef for canning and 2 more pounds that I planned to use (1) for meatballs...

The project for today was finishing up the pizza sauce. I got 9 half pints and 1 quarter pint. This sauce is so good . . so much better, in our opinions, than any we can buy. I can’t wait til it gets cool enough that we can start making pizzas in the outside pizza...

A reader asked about the recipe for Zucchini Relish. The recipe is in Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving book (affiliate link). I first bought a version of this book in 2009. I started using it this year and it was pretty much falling apart so I ordered a new one. I do love this...

Today’s project – Finish The Ketchup! I had planned to do this on Day 3, then got started on Day 4 so today is the day this project gets finished. I doubted I could get this all done in one day so before I started, I made sure I had room in a fridge to...

Today’s project: Zucchini Relish Once upon a time, I thought zucchini was so easy to grow. The past two years, the squash bugs have ruined all my squash. My beloved Thelma Sanders and Candy Roasters . . . got one from each before the squash bugs ruined them. I’ve used enough DE to about break...

Today’s project – salsa! I wish I had hundreds of pounds of tomatoes. There are so many fun tomato products to can. Today’s salsa is a bit spicy but when we’re adding it to other dishes, like tacos or enchiladas or using it as a dressing on a taco salad, the spicy is good. If...

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As I posted already, Friday I processed the basil for the freeze dryer, canned the turkey and made and canned the tomato jam. My feet were not happy yesterday and I wasn’t sure what I was going to cook for dinner. I took out a big sirloin steak Friday and stuck it in the fridge...

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Yesterday when Chad was here, we were talking about whether we would make tomato sauce, spaghetti sauce, salsa . . whatever they wanted to make with their tomatoes. They want to learn to make it and can it. Chad brought up spaghetti sauce I had made and canned years and years ago. This isn’t the...

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On my list for today was to get the Tomato Jam made, along with canning the turkey, getting the basil cut and into the freeze dryer. Got the basil done. Got the turkey canned and got the tomato jam made. I ended up with 9 pints of turkey. On to the tomato jam! I’m very...

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I’m not a fan of turkey. I tolerate it at Thanksgiving, mainly because there’s plenty of other stuff I can eat. But I do not like turkey leftovers and I’ve tried every way imaginable to cook it and I just don’t like it. Last year after Thanksgiving, every time Vince left the house alone, he...

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Several days, maybe a week ago, I read about vinegar being sold now that’s 4% instead of 5%, which makes the vinegar less acidic than the approved 5% for adding to canned items. The label should say “diluted with water to 5% acidity”. I figured it was a Facebook hoax and didn’t pay much attention...

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