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Well, Me&theGals wanted me to drop in to this thread for my input as well. My wife and I are in the Foster process now and working on the last bit before placement's.... Wonderful heartwarming stories told (Yes, I read all six pages) and for now, I have this input to add. There seems to be...

"Can" we maybe post up some good recipes for canning? I am looking for something fairly easy and it can be a pressure canned recipe too. Small sizes are ok too. I have been cheating and using the pre-packaged sauce mix made for canning. It's not bad, but not amazing, and a bit bland...

Well, it's been slow on the canning front... Between classes for foster-care, my wife's car blowing a motor (and my Jeep breaking down on the way to pick up a new motor!) Well, not much has been done as of late! Tonight, I tried a new recipe for beef stew (looks more like soup though!) I put up...

Busy weekend, I only was able to put away three pints of spaghetti sauce last night...

Well, I left it to simmer all night and it really did not change much. Syrp may be out of the question unless there is something I can add to thicken it up. Might work in some iced-tea though....

Well, lets just say that I did not grow them and those may be the worlds most expensive canned peaches! My wife and I thought it would be nice to take the kids to the orchard and pick peaches & blueberries. Well, $87.00 later and the sinking feeling that this will never break even... here we...

Well, tonight's batches... 13 quarts of peaches! That was a lot of work peeling, cutting and prepping! It's 1:30am and I am tired! (I also washed, sorted, and bagged 24 cups of blueberries! (16 cups bagged in 4 cup measurements in the freezer) We had just one whole peach left over from the...

Quick help here... I canned 13 quarts of peaches tonight and what I did was when I hot packed them, I used the same sugar/water mix for that and new fresh sugar water for the canning. When all was said and done, I have a heavily flavored peach sauce, yet thin. I am thinking if I simmer this...

That's when God is at his best there Kris! It's when you have to rely on faith alone that you see the gifts a little more clear. ;) Ok, now back to the topic.... I started in on some of the peaches we bought Friday... (I sure do wish I got them for free too! Nawh, I paid dearly for these!)...

Thanks, this is the first year for me taking over the canning. My wife has always been afraid of a pressure canner so we pretty much just did pickles. Right now I have two shelves of a cabinet full and we are running out of room! I am going to build some storage cabinets in our cellar to store...

Yea, super careful with these peaches, that is why the boxes were made. I have a second layer loosely spaces on top of the first layer so they have air flow. This morning the kitchen has such a wonderful peach smell! :D I plan on jam, no worry there! I will make at least 6 pints to keep and...

Well, just a little for today... I got around to harvesting the carrots that were ready to go in the garden and pressure canned then, I had planned on quarts, but pints made more scene and there was not as much as I though once cut up. While that was cooking, I used up the tomatoes from our...

So today we decide to take a trip out to the orchard and spend a bit (No, make that WAY more) than we expected! My wife and oldest picked some more blueberries to make pie filling, and I took the three younger children and picked peaches. Now I had one of those large bags, the kids each had a...

Don't forget how easy it is to can left over chicken broth... I mean, it's almost a free by product of a chicken dinner, right? I can think of many of times we just tossed it out because we did not want to deal with it. Now that I can, can this way, it makes it so much more useful.

Today's batch was: 4.5 pints of strawberry-rhubarb jam 4.5 pints of blueberry Jam 5.0 quarts of chicken stock (In the pressure canner right now) ;) Shameless photo plug: You have to love the soup part... Cook a nice chicken dinner, pick it almost clean for your meal and sandwich leftovers...

I'll tell you what, now there's someone who likes grape jam! :/ PS.. no, it was 94 and a HALF!

Here is a question, for those of you who can them... how many packages of seed do you plant per rotation to get enough harvest to fill say, six or seven quarts? This is my first year canning and I seriousl under-planted them so I can max out at maybe 2 quarts at a time. I also started in...

We have four children, shoot.... I have been thinking about making QUARTS! :lol:

We be jamin' today.... Still stocking up on jam! I decided that every time I make a batch, I will split off two (or three if I can) half pints to gift. Those full pints kill me to give away! :/ Here is what I put up today, Blueberry & Strawberry-Rhubarb. Anyone have a good recipe for...

Tell you what, I just uploaded them to my server so anyone can download them if they wish. Just do a google search to find a clipart that you like and replace the photo, edit as you like. I find that the layout on the card makes it easy to print, and cut. If you use all of them, it does make...