I originally started canning because I ran out of space in my deep freezer. Even now, I treasure precious freezer space, preferring to save it for grass fed beef, pastured poultry, soup bones, and vegetables I find at great prices at the farmers market. Even now, I’m trying to eat my way through my last…
Hello dear readers. My! I’ve been busy lately. Working full-time outside of the home doesn’t leave much time for real food culinary adventures does it? Last week I ran desperately low on broth, which meant my day off needed to be dedicated to refilling my broth supply. Normally, I will do 3 or 4 rounds…
This past week, we learned to can tomatoes, and we enjoyed it so much, we bought a bunch of apples and canned them, too! Now, a lot of people have been asking me why I’m getting into canning when I could just freeze stuff. Well…that’s true. Freezing things is way easier…except that I have a…
Canning is really easy and a great way to save extra harvest for the winter or off-season. As I mentioned in my easy peasy tomato paste post, one of my goals this year was to learn home canning. I put it off and put it off, but the cooler temperatures kicked my butt into gear,…