A few weeks ago, I received an email from Jeff, The Berky Guy over at Directive21, in regards to an impending price increase in canned beef. It appears that due to a shortage from a variety of reasons, we are about to get squeezed again as consumers. Over the last couple of years, with the […]
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Home Canning – The Processing Options (Part 2)
This is Part 2 in my Simple Steps to Getting Started Canning series. (Click here for yesterday’s post, Part 1) Today, I’ll go over the types of safe processing, food types for each, and the reasons certain types of foods require different types of processing. As I said yesterday, one of the major concerns I […]
Intro to Home Canning
To me, canning is a phrase that conjures up memories of damp, dusty cellars full of the harvest from last year (or older) that was preserved at home for future use. Before the days of “just in time inventory” and shipping food across the entire planet, canning allowed a family to enjoy seasonal food all […]
Canning Corned Beef (Plus, a Corned Beef Hash Recipe)
(This is slightly modified from a post I made last week at InTheRabbitHole.com’ s forums. While I do post on lots of other forums, I call their forum “Home”, and end up posting a lot there. They have a tight-knit community established, and while they don’t have a massive number of registered users like some […]
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Canning rabbit
I’ve had a VERY productive year raising my New Zealand/AlTex cross meat rabbits. Not that I should be surprised, they ARE rabbits. And since I’ve packed my tiny freezer full of rib eye steaks, I’m kind of low on available storage for animal protein. A perfect chance to try out the same method of preserving […]
My next project: Canned mullet (Part 2, The Execution)
(See part 1 here) I had the day free, so I went surf fishing. Subconsciously, I’m positive it was just an excuse to go catch some mullet, since I never bring a castnet to the surf…yet today I had one. Good thing, I was catching
My next project: Canned mullet (Part 1, The Plan)
(This one goes out to Mike & Shawn – one will laugh with me, the other will laugh at me) In a previous post, I mentioned spearing a mullet, cooking it over a fire, and eating it. And enjoying it, much to the humor (and horror) of my friends that witnessed it. Not being one […]