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I haven't gotten to preserve in awhile (I did do 8 Quarts of Chicken Stock 2 weeks ago, I would have done more but it got late and I just froze the last 2 quarts). I am going to pick up my preserves from the fair today though, I didn't enter anywhere near what I usually do. I usually max out...

Crazy busy lately, plus everyone getting sick, daughter is back in school and the weather has been unreadable at best! These are some of the many reasons I have not been by, and I wanted to say HI and I miss you guys and I hope I will back again to visit and talk canning again soon. My hours...

They have food grade buckets online, I bought a ton + tupperware from a company online for all my baking and canning stuff since I buy all our food in large quantity. Restockit.com I do believe is the website.

I'm doing some garlic in the dill one, but no dill in the garlic one (and double the garlic). I love pickles because you can make the brine any way to want. LOVE! Num Num

So sick and tired of the failed cukes this summer (2 plantings and I got like 5 cukes from both plantings). So I stopped by the farm stand and forked over the $$$ for pickling cukes for this fall. I'm making a batch of garlic and batch of dill. I don't know how I'll get through winter w/ out...

Already got a batch of vanilla pear butter done, 12 more jars of orange watermelon, and 12 more pink watermelon as well. I got the juice of muscadine grapes and pears waiting for me to get that jelly done too. I just need a couple more days in the week and hours in the day I'm telling you!!! I...

Question about the pears. I've picked and done it from my neighbors pears for years. After we pick, it takes some time for the pears to ripen, they just don't ripen on the tree. I was wondering if it was because of the type of pear they have or what? Do you have to let yours sit for awhile to...

I made a large batch of roasted tomato & pepper lime salsa. YUM! I didn't have time to can it though, so I ladled it into some tupperware and into the fridge to can tonight. I'll just reheat it when I do it. Someone showed me on one of BYC sister sites. She did it on a stove top griddle, but I...

Did you use lemon juice? I use it in mine and the rosemary goes back to green once I add it!

The french vanilla peach sauce is a fav of mine! Simply peal and pit as many peaches as you'd like. I usually do between 10 and 12 at a time. Then pulse in the food processer until perfectly smooth. Heat over medium heat for about 20-30 minutes w/ 1 scrapped/split vanilla bean. 2 Tbsp lemon...

I had a busy evening of canning rosemary jelly, hot pepper jelly and french vanilla peach sauce. 26 jars in total. :) Thanks to Erin I triple filters my rosemary tea for the jelly and it is so sparkly and pretty! These are definitely going to be entered for our herb jelly category this year...

Erin, that is some GREAT info!!! I can't wait to put that to good use with what we enter this year. :) Before now I would just read the judges comments on my jars and others to see what was the like and dislike. I even kept the comment cards to read over this year when I pick out my entries...

Oh yes, those fairs are so fun! Don't stress yourself, lots of people enter and the first year I did it I didn't win anything, but I learned to look at all the winning entries. I found not only is taste important, but looks are super important. Like raspberry or blackberry jam. They liked ones...

I am dead tired and over heated too. I did the last of the tomatoes & I have 3 gallons of figs still yet to do. So done right now. I've had a rough couple of weeks, rarely getting the sleep I need and beating myself up between work, the garden and the family. Husband has been working 12-18 hour...

Sorry I've been busy and away... tomatoes just won't stop! hahaha Simply, instead of blanching my tomatoes to peel, I cored them and popped them under the broiler in the oven. I waited until the skins burned slightly, pulled them out and peeled them. Delicious roasted taste.Then I peeled a TON...

I am so thrilled.... I did 5 quarts of roasted tomatoes w/ garlic. They took forever, but not only does it taste amazing, but they are just gorgeous to look at. Going to hate having to eat these this winter. Hahahaha

Its so darn hot, I'm going out in my bathing suit to pick tomatoes and green beans with my DD. We're setting up the sprinkler to keep us cool and water the garden while we work. Hopefully the A/C people will show up tomorrow. They cancelled coming out today. They're only even coming to look at...

No canning today or until further notice. My central air died last night and its already like 100 degrees and climbing in this house.

Patiently waiting for the tomato sauce to finish on the stove... its taken so much longer then I planned on tonight. 20 lbs worth of tomatoes SEEMS to make a lot of sauce, then as it simmers and goes down in the pot you aren't left with much!? :P Anyways, I did spend the time weighing the...

Having a yard sale today, and put out all these extra tomatoes for sale, and I've sold more from the garden then anything else! hahaha