Home preserving that's as good for the body as it is for the mind
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….
This is a delicious, pure spaghetti sauce recipe for home canning from the USDA. It’s a plain, simple and mild sauce, not too spicy, ideal for those with simpler tastes. It should be a hit with pickier eaters, such as kids or some seniors. One hidden advantage of making your own spaghetti sauce is that…
This is a delicious, Tex-Mex style meat mix that lets you have tacos ready in a flash for meals or parties. The prep work for canning is also really fast: the entire mixture is raw pack. This recipe comes from the Ball All New book (2016). Like many Ball recipes, the sodium in this can be a bit…
This may be the best tomato soup recipe you’ve tasted. If you know folks who have been put off tomato soup because of the tinned stuff from the stores, they may like this. This recipe is easily doubled or tripled, and in fact, you may wish to do to make it worth firing up the…
Home canned kidney beans have a meaty taste, with none of the tinny taste that store-bought ones do. These are really handy to have on hand for mashing into quick dips, making into refried beans, etc. These canning directions apply to both red kidney beans, and white kidney beans (aka cannellini.) For background info and questions on…
Home-canned pinto beans are delicious and wonderful to have on hand. When you can them yourself at home, you can make them without all the added salt that commercially-canned pinto beans have. It’s nice to have jars of different sizes available so you can open just the size you need. Quantities of dried pinto beans…
You may home can either variety of sweet potato: the orange, or the white. You need around 1 kg (2.25 lbs) per 1 litre (1 US quart) jar. In 1930, the Ball Blue Book advised that “some of the best varieties for canning are the Nancy Hall, Triumph and Southern Queen.” [1]Ball Blue Book. Edition O. 1930….
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…
If you don’t like tinned green beans from the store, you’re not alone. Many don’t. But, home canned green beans taste nothing like that. Green beans must be pressure-canned; there is no alternative way to can them unless you pickle them. On this page, we’re going to work through the USDA directions for pressure-canning them….
Plain pumpkin and winter squash can be canned. They are great for quick pies and quick tasty side dishes of squash mash. And, depending on what you add to them of course, they can be a dieter’s dream: both pumpkin and winter squash are even free vegetables on Weight Watchers. This article is about the…
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