Preserving Your Harvest

[pennyJo1960]

I will stick a picture here tomorrow but Cornstarch slurry. Saw u tube video they did add other spices and sugar I did not.
Did a redo on my Jam all set nice now.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I canned 15 pints of tomato sauce.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Still crossing my fingers I have ripe t6omato may have to do green tomato sauce otherwise

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

I'm hoping to can a few jars of Blueberry Pie filling tomorrow.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Made my first ever pizza, pasta sau
Used some home and others bought Roma tomato.
Garlic, pepper, onion, italian seasoning.
1 can per pot of tomato paste 6 ounce to thicken
8 pint's 7 quarts of the sauce all said and done.

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Finished up processing apples. I cut and froze some apples for cider, dehydrated and got 4 of the gallon Ziplocs of apples, and canned 9 pints and 5 half pints of applesauce. I used my immersion mixer, and it worked great to get creamy applesauce to can.

 

[tripletfeb]

Finished up processing apples. I cut and froze some apples for cider, dehydrated and got 4 of the gallon Ziplocs of apples, and canned 9 pints and 5 half pints of applesauce. I used my immersion mixer, and it worked great to get creamy applesauce to can.
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Looks great! I forgot to say I made applesauce from a bushel of apples and canned it too. Should have dehydrated some but hubby is not a fan

 

[BirdsBeesTrees]

Looks great! I forgot to say I made applesauce from a bushel of apples and canned it too. Should have dehydrated some but hubby is not a fan

That's too bad, we love the dehydrated apples. I do sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on them though.

 

[tripletfeb]

That's too bad, we love the dehydrated apples. I do sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on them though.

Sounds yummy!

 

[akroberts1085]

We have a garden that had produced very well this year. In fact, it's our best garden in 6 years and two homes. I have a real passion for growing food we can eat. It's always great to have a salad fresh picked form the garden or cook a meal with fruit and vegetables, and even meat, harvested right from our backyard. Over the years we found ourselves faced with small abundance that we sometimes gave away. With our first garden I started making homemade pickled cucumbers and zucchini and canning them. Then two years ago we got a killer deal on flats and boxes of berries and grapes at a local store, so I ventured into making jams and jellies and canned those. Now that our garden is producing incredibly well this year, we have (or "have had" in some case) abundance of peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, kale, radishes, potatoes, onions, garlic, peaches (less abundant, but still too many to eat within a few days) and herbs such as parsley, basil, oregano, thyme, cilantro/coriander and dill. We also expect to have a decent harvest of corn, brussel sprouts, and Jerusalem artichokes/sunchokes, dried corn, dry beans as well as a few sunflower heads. I might even plant a lot crop of peas and radishes. We have so much harvest this year, we had to find ways to preserve the fruits of our labor. We began canning homemade salsa, pickled peppers, pickled cucumbers (whole, halves, spears, chips and relish), and I'm preparing to make pepper jelly for the first time ever. We also have hung onions and garlic to cure for dry storage for the first time ever. There's so much more food coming out of the garden still though. What to do with all this harvest? Certainly we could just give it away, but we want to keep as much as possible for those months when we cannot garden (we are in zone 5). So preserving has become our focus.

How do you preserve your harvest?

I want recipes, pics, ideas, etc. Whatever you have, tell me all about it!

I would make some spaghetti sauce with the tomatoes onions garlic and zucchini. Plus I would also make tomato soup and sauce. You can probably find a recipe for tomato juice and soup. The dry beans I would start making chili beans.