How to Can Homemade Salsa
If you believe the marketing, salsa should not be from New York City, as it does not taste as good as salsa from Texas. Well, homemade salsa makes Texas salsa look like it was born in Manhattan....
View ArticleHow to Can Bacon
Bacon is one of those items you just cannot replace – While you can buy canned bacon it costs an arm and a leg, so when I started hearing about home canned bacon I just had to try it. The way we are...
View ArticleHow to Make Bread and Butter Pickles
Pickling produce for preservation (say that ten times fast) is a staple food preservation technique, it is a simple process that is easily adapted to almost any food. From Corned Beef to pickles,...
View ArticleCooking in a Pressure Cooker
In any disaster situation, energy is a premium. If you are cooking over a fire – every second of heat is paid for several times over with work finding, carrying, chopping, and stacking firewood. If you...
View ArticleRecipe Pickled Peppers
You wouldn’t know it to hear me talk, but I really don’t enjoy canning as much as I act like I do. Don’t get me wrong, I like that I am able to can, I like having shelves of canned food, and I LOVE the...
View ArticleKitchen DIY: Canning Funnel
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View ArticleBook: Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning
See larger image Preserving Food without Freezing or Canning: Traditional Techniques Using Salt, Oil, Sugar, Alcohol, Vinegar, Drying, Cold Storage, and Lactic Fermentation Typical books about...
View ArticleFirst Time Pickling Eggs
I am not really sure if I am going to like pickled eggs, but as I don’t have a license to sell eggs, and I get 3 eggs a day, and normally eat 3 eggs Read More ...The post First Time Pickling Eggs...
View ArticlePressure canning homemade chili
I like to cook, and because I like to piddle and experiment with things, I really like to cook chili; I don’t have a chili recipe per se, but more of a technique. I brown Read More ...The post...
View ArticleHow To Pressure Can Rabbit
In an earlier blog post we showed you how to pressure can meat – For that recipe we used beef. We also showed the difference between hot pack and cold pack canning. Canning rabbit is Read More ...The...
View ArticleRecipe Pickled Peppers
You wouldn’t know it to hear me talk, but I really don’t enjoy canning as much as I act like I do. Don’t get me wrong, I like that I am able to can, I like having shelves of canned food, and I LOVE the...
View ArticleKitchen DIY: Canning Whole Grapes
I am not a very good gardener, but I am pretty good with fruits – I guess that is because so far, I don’t do much except prune and watch for bugs. I don’t have enough producing grape vines that I need...
View ArticleKitchen DIY: Cooking in a Pressure Cooker
In any disaster situation, energy is a premium. If you are cooking over a fire – every second of heat is paid for several times over with work finding, carrying, chopping, and stacking firewood. If you...
View ArticleFood Storage: Oven Canning
You will never find this Oven Canning technique in a USDA or National Center for Home Preservation website; there are just too many variables to say that the process works 100% every time with every...
View ArticleGuest Post: 3 Simple Homestead Canning Recipes
If you want to try making food by yourself, you should try the homestead approach. In this kind of lifestyle, you are going to grow food in your backyard. But if there is one thing more fun than this,...
View ArticleHow to Pressure Can Pinto Beans
Why spend the effort Pressure Canning Beans? I will give you a couple reasons. The first is that it gives you storage options. I don’t like putting all my eggs in one basket, and by canning beans...
View ArticleCanning Funnel Review
I just wanted to share my favorite design for a canning funnel. For those that don’t know, a canning funnel sits in or on the lip of mason jars to funnel whatever you are trying to preserve into the...
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