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phylsfrills in food_porn

Canning and Preserving, not for the faint of heart!

Aug 16, 2010 10:34

I have not posted in some time. The pictures following pretty well say it all. It is garden harvesting time as well as berry time. I have been busy every day canning or preserving or pickling, or sometimes all three. A warning that this entry is photo heavy! ( ”more )

pickles, pickling, canning

Comments 13

canning fun drgrim August 16 2010, 14:52:41 UTC

Yea we do that to. We're probably at close to 15 quarts of tomatoes, 10 quarts of peaches, and I couldn't tell you how many pints of jelly.
Around 8 quarts of pickled cucumber, 4 quarts of pickled peppers (jalepeno, serano, and salad peppers), 4 pints of pickled garlic (water bath but refrigerator stores since our pressure canner broke)

Re: canning fun drgrim August 16 2010, 14:53:26 UTC

oh.. and tomorrow night my wife and I will be canning another 3 quarts of tomatoes and will be making mint jelly :)

Re: canning fun phylsfrills August 17 2010, 00:37:07 UTC

I don't care for mint jelly but I made an awesome Spicy Rhubarb Chutney that is excellent with pork, lamb and wild game. I planted some peppermint so am planning on drying it to make my own peppermint tea.

Re: canning fun phylsfrills August 17 2010, 00:35:17 UTC

Yes, I will be doing my salsa soon. You can find my recipe for Phyl's Salsa at allrecipes.com.

hydrolagus August 16 2010, 15:10:42 UTC

Have you considered making green tomato mincemeat? Folks might find that interesting.

phylsfrills August 17 2010, 00:38:10 UTC

I might consider green tomato mincemeat if I have any green tomatoes left.

kamaliitaru August 16 2010, 16:31:29 UTC

Wow! That's a lot of hard work!

phylsfrills August 17 2010, 00:39:06 UTC

It isn't too hard, just time consuming and totally worth the results.

voxangelus August 16 2010, 17:38:04 UTC

Awesome. My mom always told me that chokecherries were poison. If I had known I could be using the massive tree in my backyard to some purpose before now...

Ahh, according to wikipedia, I have a black cherry tree. Chokecherries are a shrub. Hot damn, in any case.

*scampers off to denude a tree*

evil_mom August 16 2010, 17:57:46 UTC

*scampers off to denude a tree*

HA!

phylsfrills August 17 2010, 00:33:22 UTC

Oh, black cherries would be awesome to make jam or jelly with. And the one tree that I picked from last week was over 15 feet high so I wouldn't exactly call that a shrub!

brother_dour August 16 2010, 20:47:16 UTC

There is something about home-pickled/canned veggies that is just awesome. I don't know anything that makes one think 'good old days' quicker.

Down here it is mustang grape season. The buggers are too sour and tannin-heavy to do much with but make jelly...and wine. Which is what mine will soon become :)

phylsfrills August 17 2010, 00:30:54 UTC

Oh, that sounds good. I was thinking of making chokecherry wine too, but am so busy now with other things, I don't know if I will get time to pick any before they are done.