To say it’s been raining here is a bit of an understatement. The first three or four days of rain brought over 3 inches! The surprise is that we haven’t had a frost yet, and it’s almost the end of October. This means the summer vegetables are still limping along, and there are still green [...]
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More Green Tomatoes?
Posted in Food and Cooking, Harvesting, preserving food, tagged baking, cooking, muffins, recipe, Tomato on 2010/10/28 | 1 Comment »
Do as I Say, NOT as I Do!
Posted in preserving food, tagged Canning, preserving on 2010/10/07 | Leave a Comment »
I recently wrote a column explaining the basic steps of canning (you can read part one and part two here). One of the first things I say is to always check your supplies before beginning a canning session. Too bad I don’t read my own column. For some reason, the last few times I have [...]
Seeing Green
Posted in Gardening, Harvesting, preserving food, tagged Fruit and Vegetable, Gardening, Green Tomatoes, harvest, recipe, Tomato, Tomatoes on 2010/09/28 | 2 Comments »
I was out surveying my tomato crop – once again , and as you can see, I’ve still got more green tomatoes than red. I hate to see them all go to waste, but what am I going to do with them? I enjoy my Green Tomato and Apple Chutney, but I don’t need any [...]
First Solo
Posted in Harvesting, preserving food, tagged Home canning on 2010/09/15 | Leave a Comment »
There it is. My first ever solo attempt to use a pressure canner. And it was a success! I got my wings a few days ago, by attending a group tuna-canning workshop. Sort of a post-graduate course from the Master Food Preservers’ class. It was pretty simple with an expert on hand to lead you [...]
Pickling Fool
Posted in Gardening, Harvesting, preserving food, tagged Cucumber, pickles, pickling on 2010/09/02 | Leave a Comment »
I have been getting only a few cucumbers at a time, not enough for a whole batch of pickles. It is not recommended that you store cucumbers for pickling for more than 24 hours (if that), so I’ve been making up 1 and 2-pint batches. Actually, that is working out OK, because I’m trying some [...]
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