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August 19, 2009 in canning and freezing, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian • 2 comments
Skip ahead to to the blue text if you want the instructions without the incoherent babbling.
Flash freezing has been done in the food industry for ages to quickly preserve and seal in nutrients and freshness. It’s why nutritionists say frozen seafood, vegetables, and so forth are technically “fresher” than their fresh cousins you find [...]
August 27, 2009 in canning and freezing, gluten-free, vegan, vegetarian • 4 comments
Dad plants sweet corn for all of us every year, staggered a week or two apart so we have sweet corn for longer. I don’t know exactly how far apart; I’m sure someone will read this and correct me since I seem to get something wrong in every post.
It’s like when there’s a story [...]
July 16, 2009 in canning and freezing, how to • 4 comments
Why would you want to make currant juice?
I can think of a few reasons, one of which is definitely going to show up here shortly.
One, to make currant jelly. Now, I’m a strawberry jam girl, so I don’t make currant jelly, but if you put some currant jelly in front of me, I won’t complain.
Two, [...]
November 10, 2009 in canning and freezing, vegan, vegetarian • 6 comments
To skip the Facebook rant and get right to the recipe instructions, scroll down to “Let’s freeze some chard!”
Hola, amigos. How’s it going with you? I know it’s been a long time since I rapped at ya. Okay, I’m channeling Jim Anchower, opinion columnist for the esteemed newspaper The Onion. I was confused as to [...]
September 4, 2009 in canning and freezing, gluten-free, how to, vegan, vegetarian • 1 comment
Yup, we sure did.
I provided the kitchen and the canner and my aunt picked the pears, cleaned the pears, peeled the pears, cut the pears, packed the pears, and processed the pears.
I practically did it all by myself!
the canning stuff, yawn
Right there you see the basic canning setup on the stovetop. I began doing this [...]
September 14, 2009 in canning and freezing, how to • 9 comments
You can’t beat a home-canned peach. Store-bought doesn’t compare. Some other fruits handle store shelves pretty well, like pineapple and pears, but store-canned peaches are nearly flavorless in comparison.
If you can only one variety of fruit, can peaches.
Linda came over to do it with me, bearing a bushel of peaches from the local fruit market. [...]
October 9, 2009 in canning and freezing, gluten-free, rude taunting, vegan, vegetarian • no comments yet
Truly, these pickles only appear before you because I’m dead tired. Been working on a house all week and I’m a tad unused to hours of physical labor every day. It’s a good tired, I guess. There’s overdone tired and there’s muscles kind of achy but in the well-used and getting stronger way, and it’s [...]
