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Great job! See, it wasnt so hard was it?
You are still alive and now you can expand your horizons even more! Whooo-Hooo! Terri O
Congrats, OEGBman! and just wait....pressure canning will open a whole new door to pantry goodies for you!
Late last week, we processed 4 turkeys into 18 lbs ground turkey (frozen), one whole breast (brined & roasted for a family holiday gathering on Sunday). I roasted all of the bones, etc from grinding, then cooked them down into a rich broth. From that I canned 9 quarts of meat and stock for soups/stews/meatpies on Saturday, and froze another 2 qts of meat without broth.
AND...Winter is the time when I can-up my own beans - kidney, pinto, black, chickpeas, etc - from dry beans. They're so much cheaper and better than commercially canned beans. I do them in Winter when there's no garden produce to deal with, and I try to do enough to last through Summer/Fall (a year's supply).
After looking for 3 weeks, I finally found cannellini beans (white kidney beans) at a Whole Foods store over the weekend! I canned those last night into 9 pints. I'm going to try them in our favorite Italian soup recipe - White Bean, Kale and Sausage Soup. If all goes well, I plan to buy a 10 lb bulk bag and can a bunch more of them along with other beans in January.
