I mentioned yesterday about “sources for safe recipes”, because unfortunately, the Internet is full of fools writing anything they they misheard as a kid is fact. And in canning, that can lead to very devastating results. Another source is old family recipe’s handed down from generation to generation. Yes, they have sentimental value…but are they […]
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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 […]
Mailbag May 2, 2013 Quail vs Ducks or Chickens
Yesterday, I received a comment from a regular reader, Darren from Green Change. com, and I thought I should expand on my reasoning. “Just a quick comment to thank you for all your quail articles. I didn’t think quail were worth messing about with (small eggs and little fiddly bodies for meat!), but you’ve managed […]
Quail Links
Here are links to articles I’ve written regarding Quail, listed in chronological order, oldest to newest. My choice in animals for “Urbansteading” Birds (chickens, ducks, & quail) Thinking about Raising Coturnix or Pharoah Quail? What to do with thirty Quail Eggs Revisiting My choice in animals for “Urbansteading” Coturnix Quail (Yes, Again!) Backyard Egg Options […]
Repairing an Excalibur 3900 (No Heat)
I recently had a failure of my Excalibur dehydrator‘s heating element. Since it comes with a 10 year warranty, I had plenty of time left to get it fixed. An email to the company along with my make, model number, and serial number showed I was still under warranty and they started the process of […]
Refrigerator Pickles
I’m not a huge fan of store-bought pickles…anything that is processed tends to taste, well…processed. Once in a while I run across an honest to goodness, USDA-NOT approved fermented dill pickle, and I really enjoy them…but in this world of lawyers, guns, and money, not following the USDA’s guidelines can get you into a …*cough* […]
Community Gardens
Do how does a guy that has no use for organized sports end up driving 4 hours just to spend three days watching a team he doesn’t like play against another team he doesn’t like? The same way he ends up staying in a state he didn’t care much for, only to start a self […]
Quail Week Day 5 – Processing Quail
This is the final chapter in the 5 day Quail Week FloridaHillbilly How-To. We’ve covered my setup and my brooder live video feed, We’ve talked about my incubator, how I built it and the incubation process. We then moved on to brooders, feeders, the importance of water, and how to make a self waterer. And […]