What are you canning now?

[CarolJ]

Yes thanks, I saved it to print it out. How sweet is it? I don't like sweet flavors with meat. Maybe mixed with BBQ would be good. Plus I would make it to give to friends and a sheet on how to use it.

I made Eggplant preserves and a friend mixed it with sauce.

The basil jelly is made like regular fruit jelly. So it is sweet. I like a sweet flavor with meat as long as the sweetness is cut with something like the mustard or barbecue sauce. I also add a little vinegar to the mixture and salt and pepper before I glaze chicken or fish or pork with it. However, if you don't like sweet with meat, you probably won't like it.

My husband was in Georgia this past weekend and picked thirteen gallons of muscadines! I've given away 4 gallons, and I made muscadine jam with one gallon - which still leaves me with 8 gallons to process in the next few days. I plan to make more jam - and to can some to use later in pies, cakes, ice cream. Anybody got any favorite muscadine recipes?

 

[mickey328]

Why not make some wine? Muscadines make excellent wine

 

[erinszoo]

Entered 27 jars in canning at the county fair. Won 17 first place, 5 second place, and 3 third place along with 3 Ball Canning awards. I think we did purty well!! The Ball Canning awards will buy us three cases of jars and 6 boxes of pectin. Yippee!!

Actually we won 19 first place. Everything won something. First time that's ever happened. Thanks for letting me brag a little.

 

[mickey328]

Woohoo, congrats!!

 

[rancher hicks]

Of course no one is home except me, but anyhow.

I have a banana that is spotty and want to toss it into my pot of Apple sauce. However I don't have a pressure cooker. Just a waterbath. Can I do it or will it be dangerous. ?

I suppose I could do it and then give it away if it won't last.

I hate to toss out good food if I can help it. No one here will eat a spotty banana.

 

[holyhart]

I always take my bananas that have gotten over-ripe and toss them into a freezer bag and freeze for later use. Toss one into a smoothie, bake some banana bread or muffins....

 

[mickey328]

I'd be very nervous about water bath canning it. I also through mine in the freezer till I get enough to do something with. And they DO make excellent smoothies...blend it up with a bit of honey, yogurt and milk...yum!

 

[silkensunlight]

I have a question about salsa. If I'm going to pressure can it, can I just make my own recipe with the stuff I have on hand? I'm looking through recipes and I'm missing something from any recipe I can find. I would think it wouldn't matter in a pressure canner for 30 minutes as long as I get the flavor I'm looking for?

 

[mickey328]

You absolutely can! I do the same with chili. Just process it for the longest time per ingredient/altitude and yer good to go

 

[silkensunlight]

Thanks so much...I live in a rural area and sometimes it's hard to find all of the ingredients in a certain recipe. It's nice to know I can modify something when I need to.