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I need some help guys and ladies... I have planned ahead and now have a LOT of Roma's (well over a bushel right now ripe) and I need to make some spaghetti sauce. What I want is to can by the quart and if pressure canned, I can do 7 quarts. However, all I ever find is recipe's for like 7-9...

Hey all, long time no see! It's been a busy winter and we are just now gearing up for the growing season! (yea!) Anyway... I want to plant a patch of corn this season mostly to can plenty of what we grow, but also for eating what we can on the cob.I grew ton's as a child at home, but I have...

This is far from Self-Sufficient, but yesterday we ordered take out and there is a funny story too. First the story... My wife hands me a menu to pick out something, I see this special (someone's name, like "Brenda's Special") and it sounds good. I have her order that for me. So she calls...

I am curious if anyone else does this... The last time I made soup (chicken) I did not have time to make the soup after I had the stock so I froze the stock. Fast forward to a nice turkey dinner, and it's time to make stock again for soup. Well, I have a 10+ quart stock pot, so after I had...

Ok, I have one little bell pepper plant in my garden that made it. (Bad spring in New England!) I have maybe 6 peppers that appear to be almost ready to pick. How can I make the very most of these?

Well, I thought y'all might like this. I was working in my shop on another project that left me with some scrap oak that was almost too small to keep, but I HATE tossing good wood. So I scrounged up some scrap rosewood and then a little walnut from some old piece of furniture that I had saved...

"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...

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...

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...

Well, tonight was take-II with the pressure canner and I have more insight on what I did wrong the last time. I think that I expected more of a steam whistle to start while purging the pot before I gave it the 10 minutes prior to the weight. Tonight, I put up four quarts of beans and I let it...

My Dad wanted a hand putting the new soft top on his Jeep today so off I go for a day of stretching vinyl. Then Mom brings up some nice dirty Mason jars for me to bring home... I swear she dug them out of the root cellar floor!! Ah well, a spin the the dish washer and they look like new...

Ok now... my yellow beans were getting a bit heavy in the bush, so I managed to swindle (ask nicely) the pressure cooker from my Mom. She has (had) a 12 quart cooker that was not getting used. I DID leave her with two other smaller ones so... ;) Anyway, I wanted to make a small batch of two...

I thought I would put up a new post for anyone who may of missed this in my other post. I made some new jar toppers for my jam I am re-making tomorrow so I though I would share. I made these canning jar lid labels are made from card stock and they are very simple. The best part is that they...

I seem to be hit or miss at my Jam. Sometimes it sets up just right, sometimes it is full soup! I have four pints of Strawberry-Rhubarb that I have to re-do now. I have some tips from Ball on how to re-set jam that did not take, but is there a way to really tell it is ready to pull off the...