Home preserving that's as good for the body as it is for the mind
Instant Sunday dinner: just serve this pot roast with its delicious gravy over mash, with a few of your home-canned veg for sides. 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…
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 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…
You can dehydrate many of the cultivated long podded-beans meant to be eaten in the pod. Such beans are often treated by cooks as a vegetable rather than a carbohydrate (as are individual, shelled dried beans). They are known under names such as Green Beans, Italian Beans, Snap Beans, String Beans, Runner Beans, Wax Beans,…
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…
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…
Orange carrots are a very “modern” phenomenon in the history of carrots: the orange colour was developed only in the 1600s, in Holland. The Greeks and Romans wouldn’t recognize our carrots: to them, carrots were purple or white. (Learn more about carrots.) You can home can heritage carrots — the multicoloured yellow, purple, red, etc,…
This is a Ball Blue Book variation on the USDA’s procedure for canning corn kernels. It raises a jar of plain corn to semi-gourmet levels with the simple addition of a bit of red pepper, and dried basil. Quantities of corn needed Numbers are approximate guidelines. Fresh corn on the cob On average, as…
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