What are you canning now?

[Kim_NC]

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LOL, well, DH loves eating enough to help. He's best at helping with prep work - peeling, cutting, chopping, filling jars, capping jars. He leaves canner operation up to me. His parents also canned and froze food. He spent many afternoons shelling beans and snapping peas, etc as a kid.

I'm hoping to get honeysuckle jelly made this year too. It sold well for me last year.

 

[HenThymes]

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Yes, I freeze all of my green beans. We just clean them real good, snap them of leave them whole your choice and then we vacuum seal them in freezer bags. We eyeball the amount for each bag based on what we would use at a time. When we use them I just cut the bag open and put the frozen beans in the pot. But then again when I cook my green beans I like to let them cook a long time loaded with onion,bacon,garlic,mushrooms and seasonings. Yum!!

I have never had a problem with them and they taste great.

 

[chicks4kids]

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You should blanch the green beans for 3 minutes beforethrowing them in a bag and freezing them.

 

[chicks4kids]

I just got done canning 12 pints and 1 half pint of black raspberry jelly ( and I know I'm not done

) Mine is reduced sugar........I only use half the original amount of sugar. ..........Anyone want to swap 2 pints of my black raspberry for 2 pints of your boysenberry jelly??? If so, just pm me!

 

[chicken_china_mom]

Ohhh, watermelon jelly, I wonder if my older DD would eat it. She ADORES watermelon. Well, both kids do, but the younger DD won't touch any forms of preservers, jellies, etc.

I just got done canning 12 pints. 6 red raspberry and 6 mixed berry. Mixed berry has blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. It's delicious!!!!! By the way, that was my second time making preserves. My first batch came out WAY too sweet, but I reduced the sugar this time and added a splash of lemon juice into the mixed berry one, and it was perfect this time!!! I got the red raspberry one perfect first try. It was hard keeping my older DD and even my mother from "taste testing", lol. 6 pints won't last long, but now I know I can just buy bags of frozen berries and make some quick preserves.

Next I plan to make strawberry preserves and maybe try my hand at blueberry compote. Oh I'd LOVE to have some of that to pour over pancakes!!! I make apple butter yearly though, LOVE that stuff. Gonna try to make pumpkin butter this year too. THAT is my favorite!!!!

 

[PlumTuckered]

We planted a dozen Cayenne Pepper plants this year. My husband loves to eat them raw with his food but he only eats them when they're green. I now have a dozen plants with lots of beautiful red cayenne peppers on them and have no idea what to do with them. Any suggestions?

Michelle

 

[Kim_NC]

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- Dry them, crush in a food processor or blender for your own dried red pepper flakes.
- Use them in jars of pickles.
- Feed them to your chickens. The capsaicin is good for their metabolism. (They don't have the receptors that make peppers burn like humans/mammals experience.)
- Mix in your bird seed to keep squirrels away from your feeders.

 

[PlumTuckered]

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- Dry them, crush in a food processor or blender for your own dried red pepper flakes.
- Use them in jars of pickles.
- Feed them to your chickens. The capsaicin is good for their metabolism. (They don't have the receptors that make peppers burn like humans/mammals experience.)
- Mix in your bird seed to keep squirrels away from your feeders.

thank you so much!! I'll do all of these
For the dried red pepper flakes, do I dry the peppers then crush or dry after crushing?

Michelle

 

[OutInTheStiks]

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You should blanch the green beans for 3 minutes beforethrowing them in a bag and freezing them.

I had less than a canning run's worth of beans this morning so I washed them, broke them, blanched them for 3 minutes, cooled, bagged and put them in the freezer. We'll see how they are.

 

[joel david]

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HEY! That's an idea!!!

LOL!!! Got a favoriet recipe?

Don't usually use a recipe but this sounds about right

6 fluid ounces tequila
2 fluid ounces triple sec
8 ounces frozen strawberries
4 fluid ounces frozen limeade concentrate

of course if you aren't a fan of agave you can always do daiquiris.