Home preserving that's as good for the body as it is for the mind
This is the USDA’s “Beans, Dry, with Tomato or Molasses Sauce” recipe: we just adjusted the seasoning of it so that the beans will taste like baked beans, even though they aren’t actually (neither are tinned baked beans from the store! Though you could say, they are baked in the jar.) If your audience prefers…
This Chicken and Gravy in a jar forms the basis for a wonderful chicken dinner. The name is actually a bit misleading: you actually make the gravy after you open the jar. In any event, this smells wonderful. It will make the kitchen smell like a good old-fashioned Sunday roast dinner with all the trimmings….
Imagine jars of delicious home-canned goulash, just sitting on your pantry shelves ready for wonderfully-warming weeknight suppers. Your family may have its own traditional variation of goulash; you can customize this as you wish upon opening a jar. You can use beef, or pork. The recipe as written is quite high in sodium (1040 mg sodium per…
Pea soup, the good country food of peasant stock for generations previous, has started to reach gourmet-level prices in grocery stores for unknown reasons. You can make your own at home for pennies a jar, and, at the same time restore it back to being a truly healthy, nourishing food. If you have the storage…
Home canned black beans (aka turtle beans) have a delicious clean, nutty taste. The home canned version also doesn’t have the tinny, chemically taste of store-canned black beans. While it’s true that space-wise it’s best to store black beans dry, and that if you have a pressure cooker, you can have them cooked up in…
Canned chickpeas, ready to use, are really useful to have on hand for making quick dips from, for adding to soups, for garnishing salads, etc. You can make your own for pennies a jar. They will even taste better than store canned ones, not having that typical tinny taste. Quantities of dried chickpeas needed Numbers are…
If you don’t like tinned yellow wax beans from the store, you’re not alone. Many don’t. But, home canned yellow wax beans taste nothing like that. Yellow wax beans (aka yellow snap beans) can up beautifully at home. Many people prefer them to home-frozen yellow wax beans, because while most varieties of yellow wax beans…
Pickled jalapenos are great to have on hand. And it’s nice to know that they’re sugar-free, salt-free and preservative free. They taste way better than tinned ones from the store, because they are missing the tinny taste. They taste very fresh. Using jars of different sizes increases your chance of having just the right jar…
The question of canning cabbage often comes up. Neither the USDA nor the National Center for Home Food Preservation nor any of the reputable, science-based sources for trusted recipes have a recommendation for home canning plain cabbage at this time, either by itself or as an ingredient in pressure-canned recipes. Disregard any advice you see to…
If you are looking to throw together a gumbo or a Louisiana-style dish in a hurry, this home canned okra would be just the ticket. It’s also great to add to Indian curry dishes, where okra is known as “bhindi.” Can only young, tender pods. Old, stringy pods won’t improve. Don’t can rusted pods; the…
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