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Butter and cream cheese prices are almost double what they used to be. Milk has only gone up a little. All the meat prices are stupid high, but sometimes I see salmon and boneless chicken breast for close to what they used to be. Pork shoulder roast used to be cheap, and it’s still cheaper, but...

@Mini Horses I have read you and @baymule and others talking about canning beans without soaking. I looked it up before I did mine, and none of the dry bean methods are tested approved recipes. So I decided that I would stick with tested recipes for now and hold off on branching out (rebel...

Ha ha thanks! That came with some Swiss Miss cocoa in the grocery store several years back. One of my favorite Christmas/winter decors.

Man, @baymule you sure have had one awful winter of rain rain rain. You deserve some sunshine 🌞 for a while! My goose pen is a muddy mess, but it’s nothing like what you have had to put up with.

I can identify with the momentum that comes with the sunshine. It is such a nice change from the weeks of gloomy weather! ☀️

So today’s canning kind of was a large amount. I did 2 pounds of great northern beans and 2 pounds of pinto beans. I forgot to soak them overnight, so I started at 9am with the boil 2 minutes and sit one hour method for the pintos, and the pressure cook 2 minutes method for the gr northerns...

It was for sure the confidence of use that sold it for me. Now that I’m familiar with using it, I think I would be more willing to try the manual kind. Heck, I’m already more confident using my older GoWISE, since I can see how similar it is to the Presto electric one. The Presto owner’s manual...

Oh, thank you for the update. I was wondering, but I figured you would have said if it had gotten delivered. I’m glad your cc company took care of it. What canner do you use for big batch stuff? How many jars does it fit? Now that I’m into canning, I’ve been starting to think about what I...

No, I got the Presto. I’m doing my best to get some use out of it. My new hobby. 😂

Today’s fun play time in the kitchen: So it’s a good thing I’m pretty much doing this for fun, and not to save money. This is peach lemonade concentrate, and all I got out of two 5# bags of lemons from Kroger! :ep (Plus 5 peaches from my freezer.) The 5# bags of lemons were on sale for $5.99...

Thanks! Now I know to shake them up a bit. I will do that.

So, the photo I posted above was hot out of the canner. You can see that the blueberries floated to the top, and filled up the whole 1 inch of headspace. 9 hours later, and now that they’ve cooled off, the liquid level has gone way down. And the blueberries are sticking up from the liquid and...

You are making great progress! Slow and steady, you will get there!

Yesterday when I was doing chores, there was a poor desperate honey bee looking for something to eat in my bucket of chicken feed. Too soon for those to wake up. There are no flowers in bloom now.

Made (sort of) blueberry pie filling today. Grocery store had blueberries for 99 cents a pint the other day! I used a few of those plus a few quart baggies I had in my freezer. Not too happy with the recipe I used. Was this one: https://nchfp.uga.edu/how/can_02/can_pie/blueberry_filling.html I...

Yesterday was sunny, and today is a beautiful sunny day as well. So nice for a change! Really ought to do something outside, but tackling the hoard of cardboard boxes in the basement is on the agenda for today. Maybe after that’s done I’ll transfer basement chicks outside to the coop.

Here’s the beef broth. Cooked it Friday, canned it Saturday. I actually canned some of it in the GoWISE because I didn’t want to wait around to run two batches through the Presto. The GoWISE is a 12 quart, and I was able to fit 4 quart jars and the half pint jar in it. 2 of the pint jars didn’t...

Todays adventure: beef stock! Steak and rib bones I’ve been saving in my freezer, veggies, salt, pepper, and water to the fill line of my 12 quart GoWISE pressure cooker. Going to pressure cook it on low for at least 3 hours, maybe longer. Whether I can it today or tomorrow depends on how long...

Apricot nectar/purée This is from a 3 pound bag of dried apricots I got at Costco. Nowhere can I find those little cans of apricot nectar to buy unless I want to pay gouger prices on Amazon. Every once in a while a recipe calls for some, or I just want some to drink. So, I made my own! Next...

That is a great idea! I will see what I can find.