Canning and Home preserving

[pennyJo1960]

Like backing soda here also with white Vinegar but had a recipe
Lazanki

Ingredients

1 medium head cabbage, sliced
1 (8 ounce) packageuncooked spaghetti
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 large onion
Salt and pepper to taste
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 lb diced bacon


Directions

Preheat oven to 450 degrees F (230 degrees C).
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add cabbage and cook until tender, about 15 minutes; drain.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add pasta and cook for 8 to 10 minutes or until al dente; drain.
While the pasta and cabbage are cooking, heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Saute onions until tender.
Combine cabbage, pasta, onions, salt, pepper and soy sauce; mix well and transfer to a 9x13 inch casserole dish.
Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
We put cheese on top all three had two helpings

 

[perchie.girl]

a great video on canning catsup

Which was appropriate for the recent discussion on Pizza sauce and spaghetti sauce..

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Ok... I have a confession.... Zzzzt got to turn that bug light off. I am not a very good house keeper... More specifically not a good kitchen keeper...

I am sixty four years old and dont know how to get stainless steel clean and mark free.
If it doesnt come out of the diswasher clean I give it a scrub and run it through again...

Is there some secret potion that can be used to Clean stainless without scratching the heck out of it...???

Back when I was about twenty five I had food caked on so bat on the cookie sheets I would throw them away... When I visited a friend I was complaining about... and she said All you need is steel Wool... The stupid light came on.... No one had taught me how to keep house.

So fast forward and I am trying to help grandma out by cleaning her sink... I was accused of ruining all her stainless steel...

So I stopped trying... Now I want to pick up again. I have this pot I have used three times. ONce as a water bath canner Double stacked Apple butter... and Twice to attempt to make stock.

Came out of the dishwasher with black stains on the inside and a ring from the water level.

deb

My favorite cleaning products for my Lifetime stainless steel waterless cookware are Dawn dish soap, Efferdent and Bar Keeper's Friend. The latter is a soft, kind of a liquid paste cleanser. For really grungy, cooked-on food I will soak overnight in hot, soapy water with Dawn and a couple of Efferdent denture tablets (Polident, whatever). In the morning, wash out (it will still look grungy but will come right out), then rinse. If you want a nice like-new polish and shine, squirt a little BKF on the pan, take a dry paper towel and buff it, then rinse. Dry with a clean towel and be amazed!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Oops forgot to add this to the cleaning comments so you know what to look for. Walmart carries it. Hope this is okay.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Bar keepers friend have it too that and comet and Dawn dish soap

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Well (back to canning & preserving), so much for my good intentions of getting a refund on the parts that didn't fit my old, old pressure canner. ... so I decided to "just go look" at canners so I could start thinking about what I would order "when the time came"..... three guesses what happened!

Yup, Amazon has Presto pressure canners on about half price (or so they say).... so I ordered one, of course . I'm not planning to can the meat from the cockerels/roosters that are coming Monday , yikes, tomorrow! - but I definitely want to can the broth. The canner I ordered does 7 quarts, that should be plenty big enough to meet our needs.

 

[pennyJo1960]

still stuck on dinner plans Pork and

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

My canner still hasn't arrived I keep checking UPS and it says it will be here tuesday but it's still showing it's in Roanoke Virginiahas anyone else had this problem with UPS Ground? It took a while to get it ordered because we typed in the credit card wrong

 

[Ninjasquirrel]

a great video on canning catsup

Which was appropriate for the recent discussion on Pizza sauce and spaghetti sauce..

I must confess I did not watch the whole thing but I didnt see a recipe for making ketchup.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I must confess I did not watch the whole thing but I didnt see a recipe for making ketchup.

Hmm. Maybe they assume you have your own wonderful recipe for catsup and want to can it. Sorry, I pretty much can't watch videos on my connection.