What are you canning now?

[Moxiechick]

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Yup! I just wash and quarter them, throw them in a pot, add a few leaves of sweet basil then puree them with a hand blender. Once they cook down, I add some sugar to cut the acidity. A lot of nutrients are in the skin and seeds, plus I like the taste, which is pretty close to the taste of a fresh garden tomato!

 

[michickenwrangler]

I made chunky salsa yesterday without peeling tomatoes.

Waiting impatiently for raspberries and blackberries to come into season ...

 

[krcote]

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I canned potatoes last season for the first time and just loved using them all year for quicker home-fries

 

[sonew123]

well so far I have bought
24 pint jars
12 1/2 pint
12 quart jars
bought the ball canning book
the tools

have berries cleaned and frozen in freezer until I can do all canning in one day! Waiting for cukes to get a tab bigger and tomatoes to turn orange and red-It is either going to be a huge sucess or a massive case of botulism!

 

[krcote]

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You will do great!

 

[math ace]

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[sonew123]

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Know what's worse- is how I discovered my blackebrry plants were covered in berries? I got injured pretty good at our woman's softball leagues championship games. ( we won

) but anyhoo here's my knee about 20 minutes ago

SWOLLEN-had xrays and MRI's waiting for results-thinking torn ACL and mooshed meniscus...fast forward. they day after I took my cocker for a small leashed walk on our side yard. I can barely walk so I was going very slow-I saw a tiny bump in yard I was TRYING to navigate around and when I went to pick up my hurt leg, I couldn't pick it up high enough -2 inches?-my toe tip caught the top of the ant hill and I rolled to the left on the ground into the blackberry bushes-OUCH!!!! very thorns ripped me to shreds-as I lay there looking up at the sky and staring at my dog telling him to "go get daddy" ( as if he knew what the heck I was talking about) and I turned the right and saw all these HUGE blackberries ready for the picking!-So what did I do? I picked berries while I laid there in pain until I was found and helped up filled a quart bag

 

[math ace]

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OMG, this would of been so funny if it hadn't of been so painful!

I am a first time canner and id the jam and tomatoe thing this year. ABSOLUTELY no problems.... EXCEPT I didn't boil the first batch of jam long enough and it wasn't think enough ..... so I had to reprocess it.

 

[sonew123]

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OMG, this would of been so funny if it hadn't of been so painful!

I am a first time canner and id the jam and tomatoe thing this year. ABSOLUTELY no problems.... EXCEPT I didn't boil the first batch of jam long enough and it wasn't think enough ..... so I had to reprocess it.

It is funny really-my whole family keeps picking on me about it all. I have a table in the corner of my kitchen with all my canning stuff ready to go..I can't wait everyone else thinks it will sit there collecting dust-they'll be sorry when I dont share what I make!

 

[vfem]

Gee Sonew, you really had what I consider a day that couldn't get worse... then it did!