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  1. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    I'm not sure about beet greens but I have done kale in the freezer and it worked great. I just washed it well and chopped it and put it in freezer bags. It worked great for soups and stews. I didn't lose any color or flavor that way.
  2. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    Hey Mickey...I know you do a lot of canned ground beef. How much ground does it take to fill a pint? I'm trying to get a sense of how many I want to put up and how much it would take to make a meal out of it, so I can see if it would be worth it. Thanks. Also, I got 18 quarts of beets put up...
  3. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    I use the Ball book (Bernardin here in Canada) but I have another really great book called Blue Ribbon Preserves by Linda J. Amendt that is awesome. It has recipes for water bath and pressure cooking and some recipes for things like pumpkin butter and many recipes for variations and specialty...
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    What are you canning now?

    That's what happened to us. We were there doing our weekly run and saw some jars in the glass pile. DH asked if they saw any more come in to keep them aside. We take eggs up to the guy when he has jars for us. Good trade, and keeps stuff out of the landfill.
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    What are you canning now?

    Just a little note about getting jars.... I don't know how things work where everyone else is but my hubby got to know the guy who runs our local recycling operation. He keeps anything that looks like a "mason" jar and my hubby picks them up once a week. I've gotten a lot of jars this way. Some...
  6. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    Lucky you Mickey! I've been looking for "freebies" and no one is biting around here! I put in beets every year and they get ate up no matter how many! My whole family, extended included, eats them right up. I can't wait for next years garden though. Totally re-planned, finally I can get down to...
  7. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    Well, this is the second planting of beets. I start in early may and plant a few rows and then when they come out I plant again for a second harvest. Our growing season is only from may to october, so this will be it for all our veggies till next year. I still have a ton of green tomatoes and...
  8. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    You's guys are so lucky to still be harvesting veggies from your gardens! I wish our season lasted that long. As for us, I put up 6 quarts of pea soup yesterday and I'm hoping to get a bunch of pickled beets done in the next day or so.
  9. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    It sounds like the beans may have been a bit too mature. I had this happen when I cooked some of my beans earlier in the year. They were obviously too mature, but I blanched them and froze them anyway. I don't think it'll hurt you if the jars sealed well. They just aren't as pretty as we'd like.
  10. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    How do you deal with these? Around here they are considered pests cause they affect the growing and production of other plants. People hate seeing them around their property. The squirrels sure love them though. Must be something we're missing out on LOL
  11. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    Did you water bath it? Either way, I think I would start with that one. Sounds yummy!
  12. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    I thought about that but I also thought maybe I could boil it down some more and make pectin with it? These are obviously under ripe apples, and since it is pretty "slick" maybe it would work. I just wouldn't know how much to use in a recipe. I made apple crisp with some of the apples tonight...
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    What are you canning now?

    Ok so I did 17 pints of applesauce yesterday and did 13 1/2 pints of ketchup today. My question is the juice i took from the cooked apples yesterday is very very thick and has almost no flavor...what's the deal with this and can I do anything with it? it's so thick it coats a spoon...thicker...
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    What are you canning now?

    yeah I thought it was a great deal since the plants were about 4-5 feet tall and already had red berries on them. We got an early variety and a late variety so that the work would be split up..LOL I'm hoping for a small taste next year and a good crop the year after. Chicken wire is my friend...
  15. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    Well look at it this way, either way you're doing a good thing for the environment by planting nice green trees! LOL. I love fall shopping at the garden center. We got lucky this weekend and got raspberry plants for $2 each. It was great. Now to figure out where to plant them so the chickies...
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    What are you canning now?

    Yeah that's for sure. I'm hope to get my first crop of apples next year. My trees are still young but I was looking at them and there are several well developed spurs on them. Fingers crossed that we can at least have a little taste of what's to come with them. We did get one pears this year...
  17. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    Yeah Kijiji is just like Craigs. Some people around here post to craigs but not nearly as many as kijiji. It's weird. There are hardly any fruit trees around here unless you go to the big PYO farms. This year everything is incredibly expensive too. We had a really weird spring and then a drought...
  18. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    Exactly what I thought too. I think by the end of a 1/2 bushel of apples I'll have about 3 quarts of juice and at least 8 quarts of sauce. Then if I can still use the peels and "junk" it'll have been a great investment. I would love to able to get fruits for free or super cheap but that's not...
  19. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    I'm doing apples today, juice and sauce. I think I read somewhere that I can keep the cooked peels and cores to make jelly down the road? Am I right about this? Just re-boil the peelings to get the juice for the jelly? How much flavor is left in those used peels after all the juice and sauce is...
  20. silkensunlight

    What are you canning now?

    I'm so with ya on this one. Putting food by gets me all revved up this time of year. I think it's a great practice for the kids to learn something by, that we all really can do this for our families! 3 Bushels of apples from todays picking to work through this week. Lots of sauce coming our...
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