What are you canning now?

[Amiga]

Last night my beloved presented me with . . . . a yogurt smoothie that included rhubarb sauce. Woweee! Delicious!

 

[wyoDreamer]

I really have to put my canners into a box and seal it shut until I get the house sold and make the move to the new place. I was in the store and chicken was a really good price, picked up a big pack with the intention of canning it because I am out. I remembered in time and put it back.

Note to self (again): dear husband took the gas stove to the new house and all I have is the glass top stove. NO CANNING ON THE GLASSTOP !!! I cannot take the risk of breaking that stove and having to replace it. so once again: NO MORE CANNING UNTIL AFTER THE MOVE !!
Sheesh, I am really having a hard time with this no canning thing. I didn't think I was so hooked on having the stuff on the shelf ready to use.

 

[3goodeggs]

oh, you got it bad. a canning itch that requires tape and cardboard.
However, you will figure out how to undo that box...just give in.


I am an enabler. Goodness. hey, want me to send you some green beans?
Sorry. I wonder if we have a support group.

 

[Amiga]

I really have to put my canners into a box and seal it shut until I get the house sold and make the move to the new place. I was in the store and chicken was a really good price, picked up a big pack with the intention of canning it because I am out. I remembered in time and put it back.

Note to self (again): dear husband took the gas stove to the new house and all I have is the glass top stove. NO CANNING ON THE GLASSTOP !!! I cannot take the risk of breaking that stove and having to replace it. so once again: NO MORE CANNING UNTIL AFTER THE MOVE !!
Sheesh, I am really having a hard time with this no canning thing. I didn't think I was so hooked on having the stuff on the shelf ready to use.

Sounds like someone needs to teach someone else how to can, in the student's kitchen.

 

[Raech]

I would be willing to get taught more but I am probably a little too far. Saw a recipe for clam chowder and started looking up clam season, only place to go clamming is across another state, but I think it might be worth it. Then started talking to a friend who is going to give us some salmon and found out that I can can that too, since I have a pressure canner now. Hubby is looking at me like I am crazy now, I was border line before but I might have fallen head first.

Told him $20 for a year round clamming license, and I already have the jars(300+) it's actually cheaper than buying them in the store. Now if only I can convince him to let me start canning soup in the next year or two, maybe once we get the chickens going. Making stew tonight that might turn into a soup with noodles, it has a lot of liquid, and fresh bread, and the house smells really good right now.

 

[Amiga]

I would be willing to get taught more but I am probably a little too far. Saw a recipe for clam chowder and started looking up clam season, only place to go clamming is across another state, but I think it might be worth it. Then started talking to a friend who is going to give us some salmon and found out that I can can that too, since I have a pressure canner now. Hubby is looking at me like I am crazy now, I was border line before but I might have fallen head first.

Told him $20 for a year round clamming license, and I already have the jars(300+) it's actually cheaper than buying them in the store. Now if only I can convince him to let me start canning soup in the next year or two, maybe once we get the chickens going. Making stew tonight that might turn into a soup with noodles, it has a lot of liquid, and fresh bread, and the house smells really good right now.

 

[wyoDreamer]

My sister cans salmon. That is some good stuff! She doesn't like to share though. I had to drive all the way to Idaho to try it.

This is the sister that could only make mac and cheese out of a box and boil hot dogs until she had her first child.

 

[Raech]

My sister cans salmon. That is some good stuff! She doesn't like to share though. I had to drive all the way to Idaho to try it.

This is the sister that could only make mac and cheese out of a box and boil hot dogs until she had her first child.

I live on the Washington/Idaho border! I do a lot of home cooking, and am starting to not buy a lot of box stuff now that I have a whole closet of cookbooks. Talked to my grandpa about what my grandma used to can and he said she didn't can salmon but she used to can clams.

 

[Blooie]

The best canned beef I've ever tasted came from my nephew's mother-in-law. Whenever Ry and his wife come back home she'd better be toting several jars of it to pass around. Her mom just cuts beef into cubes, puts it raw into jars with a little salt, then uses the pressure canner. Nothing else - just the beef and salt. It's delicious!! So tender and flavorful....if I had a pressure my cabinet would be FULL of nothing but jars of that beef!

Edited to add: Just went to my messages to find what Trista told me about her mom's beef when I asked her about it. I copied and pasted it here just in case someone wants it:

"Cut meat into large cubes. She tells the butcher she wants anything like round steak, rump roast, any kind of stew meat. It takes 2lbs per qt and 1lb per pint. Stuff your jars and leave an inch space from the top. Then add 1 teaspoon of salt for a qt jar on top of meat. 1/2 teaspoon for a pint jar. Do not add any water it makes it own broth. Process at 10lb pressure. Process pints for 1hr and 15 min. Qt jars you process for 1 hr and 30 min. Always make sure lids have been boiling before you place them on the jars and that the rim of jars are clean before you place the lids on. Love you, Trista"

 

[Raech]

The best canned beef I've ever tasted came from my nephew's mother-in-law. Whenever Ry and his wife come back home she'd better be toting several jars of it to pass around. Her mom just cuts beef into cubes, puts it raw into jars with a little salt, then uses the pressure canner. Nothing else - just the beef and salt. It's delicious!! So tender and flavorful....if I had a pressure my cabinet would be FULL of nothing but jars of that beef!

Edited to add: Just went to my messages to find what Trista told me about her mom's beef when I asked her about it. I copied and pasted it here just in case someone wants it:

"Cut meat into large cubes. She tells the butcher she wants anything like round steak, rump roast, any kind of stew meat. It takes 2lbs per qt and 1lb per pint. Stuff your jars and leave an inch space from the top. Then add 1 teaspoon of salt for a qt jar on top of meat. 1/2 teaspoon for a pint jar. Do not add any water it makes it own broth. Process at 10lb pressure. Process pints for 1hr and 15 min. Qt jars you process for 1 hr and 30 min. Always make sure lids have been boiling before you place them on the jars and that the rim of jars are clean before you place the lids on. Love you, Trista"

That sounds like a good use for the roasts that we got that are too tough even with tenderizer on them. My dad can cook any meat and have it come out tender, but the cow we got last year is just tough as all get out. Maybe that will make it useable, we are debating on just running it all through the grinder for more hamburger at this point. But for some odd ball reason the stew meat turned out gorgeous, it was falling apart.